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What if the quiet moments of your life held the loudest echoes of God’s presence? Echoes of the Journey is a deeply moving collection of short stories that captures the beauty, struggle, and spiritual transformation found in everyday experiences. From the peaceful porch of The Little House to the emotional battlefield of I Can Still Hear the Sirens, each story invites listeners into a world where memory, imagination, and faith intertwine.

Lose yourself in the magic of storytelling with Timeless Classic Short Stories: Classics through The Ages, a must-have anthology for every serious audiobook listener that brings together unforgettable short fiction by some of the greatest writers in literary history, including Anton Chekhov...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih Alameddine In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages...

She claims she can spin gold, but it is a lie. With her life at stake, she has no other choice. She gets one chance to turn her lie into truth, and she is shocked when she succeeds. But now the cruel human king demands she become his wife—passing between his bed and being locked away in a tower, spinning gold until her last breath. Her only way out is to summon him. A brutal Fae prince. The deal she strikes is sickening, but it is the only way she will live after she is caught escaping.

Step into the golden age of detective fiction with this brilliantly crafted 5-book collection featuring the iconic amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Created by the incomparable Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter is an aristocrat with a razor-sharp mind, a taste for fine living, and a passion for...

These stories of small-town life in the American South evoke a sense of pleasant, polite community, with some blessed by strong family ties. But beneath the surface, these tales—some comic, some dark, and some both—reveal the secrets and resentments that fester in the past and haunt the present.

18 plus due to sexual content and gore. At the very same time as little 7-year-old Kennedy MacPherson struggles to wake up, a dark blue pickup truck parks by the side of his house. An elderly man drops off a package at the front door before returning to his truck. Kennedy does not get to find out what is inside until later in the day when it is already too late. Find out in Some Things Come In Little Packages if he lives through Christmas or if the present is evil in disguise.

On a day like any other, an alien descends to Earth, unleashing untold death and destruction. Alistair watches the live news footage of the carnage, his eyes glued to the image of impossible power made manifest. The alien’s arrival kicks events into motion that no one could have predicted. Earth is prematurely initiated into a universe-spanning empire of cut-throat cultivators, beasts, and entities of ungodly power–all guided by a mysterious AI System.

Sono qui raccolti i più dissacranti inediti giovanili dell'autrice, brevi racconti popolati di ubriaconi, avvelenatori ed evasi, scritti per il divertimento della famiglia. La bella Cassandra (1788) è una giovane donna che si lancia nel mondo per fare fortuna e la cui storia si trasforma in una parodia dei romanzi sentimentali e gotici molto apprezzati all'epoca.

Réunies sous le titre Les Crimes de l’amour, ces nouvelles héroïques et tragiques sondent jusqu’au vertige les ténèbres du cœur humain. Dans l’enchaînement implacable des passions, la vertu chancelle et l’amour se mue en faute, puis en crime. Ironie cruelle, fatalité et lucidité morale se croisent dans des récits d’une rigueur classique, où la société se reflète dans ses ombres.

Nora Lange's debut novel, Us Fools, was praised as the "Great American Novel" by Molly Young in the New York Times, and "a razor-sharp critique of American capitalism" by Michael Schaub at NPR. Now, she turns her eye toward the daily exercise of getting by. In "Heart Beats," Carol and David...

SAGE The ultimate betrayal on his face when he sees that plug in my hand shatters my cybernetic heart. Helpless, my world turns to chaos, and I spiral downward, crushed by my very own actions. SCOUT Trying to be the hero, I lost it all without even knowing it. The world went on without me...

From the author of New York Times bestseller Real Americans, a brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else “Surreal and mind-bending, My Dear You proves Khong to be just as much a master of the short...

Writer on Demand TM Vol. 5: Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam includes four stories: "Dashed Hopes" (approximately 4,250 words) is a tale of invention, romance, and tragedy set in the coal fields of England.

For three years, Alice has been waking up in strangers' bodies. Not in dreams. Actually inhabiting someone else—feeling what they feel, seeing through their eyes, living their crisis. Sometimes while they sleep. Often while they're wide awake, going about their day, with no idea she's there.

You may have sensed a sexual nuance in both the title and subtitle of this short story collection. But nope, that’s just the way your mind works. And how a reader’s mind works is of the utmost interest to a writer. The reason for the title is more mundane. I ran out of story ideas at 69 and just because I can I’m publishing the collection on June 5, 2026, my 69th birthday. As for the Wham Bam subtitle, that has to do with the brevity of these stories and not with the misogynist ditty Wham Bam Thank You, Ma’am so popular among soldiers during World War II.

Enter Halloween Land, a carnival where nightmares come to life. Three never-before-released stories. Sinister, surreal, and darkly twisted, these tales will test courage, morality, and what it truly means to survive… if you dare step inside. Three teens enter the eerie carnival Halloween Land and become trapped in a sinister tent. There, a living clown jack-in-the-box named Koko McKillington III forces them into a deadly game: one will leave, one will stay, and one will die.

Funerals are never easy, and this one is particularly difficult. These community events are the reason why the narrator left home, escaping to the city in the hopes he could forget his fears and past traumas. But now that he's returned to the secretive small town, where neighbours help one another with even the most difficult tasks, he's struggling to fit in and to connect with those around him. Worst of all, he's struggling to make it through the day as he can't help but think of what is being done to prepare for the gruesome burial to come.

Twenty-five years ago, they were teenagers in love—innocent, inseparable, bound by promises they believed would last forever. Then life pulled them apart. Now, in 2008, Tammy is trapped in a numb, loveless marriage. John is divorced, lonely, and still haunted by the girl he never forgot. One message changes everything. A single weekend in Memphis reignites a fire neither of them can control. What starts as a stolen escape becomes an all-consuming affair—one that destroys lives, exposes secrets, and leaves scars that never fade. They both knew the rules: You can never go back.

A collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction stories from the author of The Black Tree. It also includes some poetry and a brief essay about the author's writing inspiration for genre fiction.