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Renée è una nota accademica francese di origine italiana, con una routine sempre uguale e frustrante: i colleghi maschilisti la considerano una segretaria e, nonostante il successo delle sue pubblicazioni, Renée vive in solitudine da anni, con la sola compagnia dei lirici alessandrini. All'improvviso, arriva una mail a sconvolgere tutto: Gene Petrov, brillante matematico, lettore appassionato, emulo di Casanova e grande amore di Renée ai tempi degli studi a Harvard, è morto per una malattia fulminea.

Discover ten unforgettable short stories that will captivate your imagination, challenge your thoughts, and take you on a journey through the unexpected. In this genre-spanning anthology, each story begins with a single striking image and unfolds into a vivid world of adventure, emotion, and intrigue. Whether you're a fan of science fiction, fantasy, dark humor, or philosophical musings, this collection offers something for everyone.

Hours of best friends-to-lovers, steamy hockey players, laugh-out-loud banter, fake girlfriends, forbidden roommates, and surprise babies… all in one bingeable box set.

A Pata do Macaco é um conto de terror clássico sobre a família White, que recebe um talismã macabro: uma pata de macaco capaz de conceder três desejos. Apesar dos avisos sobre as terríveis consequências, o Sr. White faz um desejo que traz tragédia à família. Desesperados, eles usam os desejos restantes na tentativa de reverter o dano, apenas para descobrir que mexer com o destino pode ter resultados aterrorizantes e irreversíveis. A história é uma reflexão sombria sobre os perigos de desafiar o desconhecido e os caprichos do destino.

Folgen Sie Stefan Schwarz durch Geschichte und Wissenschaft der körperlichen Vereinigung, erfahren Sie, wer den ersten erfolgreichen Sexstreik veranstaltete, was schlecht übersetzte Bondage-Bedienungsanleitungen anrichten können, warum man nicht zu allen Zeiten mit Delphinen schwimmen sollte, warum Männer Gnadensex lieben und wieso man zur Messe in Leipzig Kutschen ohne Pferde mieten konnte! Hier und da wird er Sie auch mit Geschichten aus seinem eigenen Leben behelligen, denn was wäre er für ein Kolumnist, wenn er nicht selbst etwas zur Sache beizusteuern hätte!

Anne ist eine junge Frau, die ihr Leben im Griff hat. Doch als sie beim Staubwischen ein Schreiben von einer ihr unbekannten Dame findet, gerät ihr Dasein aus den Fugen. Es kommt zum Streit und Anne muss sich entscheiden, ob sie ihm vertraut oder nicht.

Using stolen plans for an experimental weapon, a rogue faction has engineered a terrifying new missile and launched it into orbit. As the head of the deployed Special Forces Unit, it is Jay's responsibility to stop it from destroying another hospital. And Jay has the perfect plan.

From oat milk flirtations to vegan taco truck confessions, The Heart Beet serves up 30 sizzling short rom-coms where love sprouts over greens, grains, and garlic-naan first kisses. Whether it’s a butcher’s son accidentally swapping dishes with a tofu sculptor, or a grumpy traditional baker falling for a pastry student with a vegan croissant to prove, each story dishes out bite-sized romantic chaos with a veggie twist.

¿Alguna vez has sentido que caminas como un fantasma por tu propia ciudad? En esta adaptación contemporánea y luminosa del clásico de Dostoyevski, dos almas solitarias se encuentran durante las noches blancas de verano—cuando el sol apenas se esconde y los sueños parecen más reales que el día. Él es un soñador que vive más en su imaginación que en la realidad.

Pita and Zemi don't know how to get along but still want to be together. When an unplanned pregnancy and a contested abortion force them to face their differences, they must decide whether love can fill in the gap when trust and communication fail. Will love be enough to keep them together? Or will they have to face the heartbreaking truth that love can't always fix it?

In 2004, Mark Leslie released his first collection of chilling fiction and disturbing poetry in a volume called One Hand Screaming. Twenty years later, this special anniversary edition that is more than twice as long as the original includes all the stories and poems from the first edition plus new ones published in the past 20 years along with all new pieces crafted specifically for this volume. This collection includes previously published award-nominees alongside original and never-before published works.

A young single mother. A four-year-old daughter who delights in drawing designs on their sidewalk. And mysterious happenings.

Five teasing short stories to tickle and amuse in this kaleidoscope! Stories that tease the listener and lead down unexpected alleyways.

The Cabman's Story (sub-titled The Mysteries of a London "Growler") is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in the Cassell's Saturday Journal on 17 May 1884. A cabman tells one of his clients three stories he experienced. The first one is about a dead passenger, the second about a passenger with a mysterious box, and the last one tells the story of a passenger who is a terrorist.

This bundle includes Just One Night, Just One Scandal, Just One Chance and Just One Spark.

A small, dark speck becomes the starting point for a cascade of thought—quiet, precise, wandering. In a room with a fire, a cigarette, and silence thick as dust, a mind drifts from memory to philosophy, from loss to structure, from trees to snails. Virginia Woolf's voice here is both still and restless, charting the motion of consciousness as it moves without hurry or warning.

En esta colección de relatos de interioridad tortuosa, de complicidades mudas, de epifanías sutiles, Isabel Hion construye, con una prosa cálida y precisa, un muestrario de voces que nos convierten en confidentes de cruentas relaciones entre padres e hijos, situaciones cargadas de simbolismo onírico, de personajes que comparten una melancolía poco común en la narrativa breve contemporánea.

Sounds good? The author thinks so, too. Listen to Short Story Collection, Vol. 077 today.

The Marbles follows two lifelong friends as they plan a reckless heist and build a crew of misfits to pull it off. But they’re all in—until everything starts to fall apart. A trail’s been left, and now the cops are circling. The real question isn’t if they’ll get the score....

In The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft guides listeners into a decaying coastal town shrouded in mystery, where ancient pacts and unnatural beings have shaped generations. What begins as an innocent detour for a young traveler turns into a spiraling descent into horror, madness, and the terrifying realization of what lurks beneath the surface—both of the sea and of his own ancestry.