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Have you ever considered whether the outfit you'll die in is in your wardrobe right now? Did you ever wish you could experience a romantic evening from both points of view? Why is there a dead man in the flower shop? What would you do for fame? Was it a zebra crossing? What if your first love wanted to make a sex tape? And what's in those yellow pills Trudy is taking?

A child prodigy becomes an international celebrity at the young age of four through his obsession with knife sharpening. A man discovers that the food scraps he's been tossing overboard for more than three decades have been nourishing a lobster to the point that the beast becomes a real threat to his existence. The brutal destruction of two island communities is witnessed by a young man who watches in amazed horror as all manners of sea monsters converge on the doomed islands. If only he could think of a solution in time! Get these stories and others when you download this audiobook.

Frost is just an ordinary person with beautiful power of expression. This audiobook is not just about her journey through depression but a lot more other things like societal conditioning, love, attention, abandonment, etc. She effortlessly takes you along in an instance onto an engaging one-go listen. It is in the form of a monologue with several poems woven into a short story. It contains poems with striking similarity and relevance, about each one of us and our lives, about complexities in all their simple sense and poems that will make you revisit them again.

Three raccoons are making their way to the trading post in the Dark Island Terminal, inside an enormous sunken tree hollowed out by generations of resident animals in the lake world. They manage to survive a blizzard high in the Phinnae Mountains, but as they reach the warmer meadows below the snow line, they encounter a feral cat, who has one thing on its mind: catnip. The travelers offer the beast the desired herb, hoping it will be enough to save themselves. Plus more tales....

This is a mystery story that takes place in Buenos Aires. Laura is a street drawer. She makes portraits and landscapes and sells them in a pedestrian street. One day, a strange man from Sweden shows up. He starts buying portraits. A few days later, Laura is gone. Her friend Claudio will try to find her.

Fat People is an entirely unique fictional look at the emotions and experiences of those who live to eat: the estrangement, loneliness, embarrassment, fear, defeated sexuality, unresolved anger, but also the simple pleasure of food.

A true collection of original short stories: Open your eyes to life in West Africa! Like the many rivers that drain into the Gulf of Guinea, these stories will spark your curiosity in the West African culture and its many characters whose innocent, unfiltered, and organic, spirited dialogue will arouse your senses and give you insight and appreciation of this rich and fragrant land, and its people.

Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a young child, and at the age of eight, her stepfather moved the family from its home in Winnipeg, Canada, to Montana in the United States, where young Mary had a hard time making friends. Her sensational autobiographical style of writing was considered scandalous, as she told of her bohemian lifestyle, feminist politics, and open bisexuality.

Three years in the making. The follow-up to the non-award-winning Slightly Spooky Stories is a collection of stories that leave you wondering. A tennis match with a difference, an older man who just wants a bit of quiet time, a business that specialises in retrieving memories, a party game that goes wrong, a visit to the doctor reveals an unusual diagnosis, a young girl and her hero dog, small birds show their appreciation, money attracting money, dodging a bullet, the power of dancing in the dark, the magic of old books, the significance of a red dress....

After reading The Song of Songs, a short story by Sholem Aleichem, I was moved to see his original story from a different point of view. This short story retells his autobiographical tale from the point of view of the woman of that failed romance. The story examines the consequences of taking our obsessions seriously and of not saying the things that must be said because we are not allowed to say them.

Enter a dystopian future where integration with technology may cost us our humanity. A bleak prediction of a world where consumerism and technological advancement has been taken to the extreme. In an anthology of short stories, Upgrade attempts to answer the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human?

Best heard with earphones and more than once. Welcome to "The Picnic". And so she surprises the Gentleman by accepting his invitation . . . Perhaps she will be the woman who can feel what he describes in his rhetorical romantic first date.

Eding est un narrateur atypique. Dans un style tantôt satirique, tantôt lyrique, il raconte sept histoires captivantes, basées sur des faits réels. Laissez-vous transporter dans des villes et des villages africains. Des histoires truculentes où les personnages singuliers nous font voyager dans des univers variés. Dans tout cela, en toile de fond, une histoire d’amour émouvante, où se mêle le choc des cultures....

Finding home in three short stories. An Afghan welcomes a young overseas worker. A daughter re-arranges her life to welcome an ailing mother. And a mother chooses to welcome her unexpected child. Each story is about 20 minutes long. All stories are written and narrated by Kate McCord, author, storyteller, and spiritual director.

Behind Enemy Lines is a collection of stories about ordinary people and anti-heroes dragged into a search for meaning in their lives - whether it is a simple search for identity and love or a bigger struggle for Africa's political freedom. The canvas of their actions, motivations, and circumstances is a Zimbabwe of the past, present, and future. Humorous, acerbic, funny, and tragic, the stories cover the whole gamut of emotions.

Tërheqës dhe prekës, një përmbledhje nëntë përrallash të bukura dhe magjike, në të cilën ndër të tjera Oscar Wilde ngjall bukur Princin e Lumtur, i cili nuk ishte dhe aq i lumtur, Viganin Egoist që mësoi të donte fëmijët e vegjël dhe Fëmija Yll që nuk i donte prindërit e tij aq sa duhet.

Stell dir vor, du bist irgendwo weit weg von zuhause alleine unterwegs. Die perfekte Voraussetzung für ein Abenteuer. Ich liebe Reisen und noch mehr liebe ich Geschichten - Geschichten von Menschen. In neun Jahren der verrücktesten Erlebnisse und Begegnungen entstanden auf meinem Weg von Neuseeland über Australien bis nach Südamerika Notizen. Aus Notizen wurden Storys und aus einer Handvoll Storys wurden - voilá - meine Geschichten von weit hergeholt. Diese Kurzgeschichten können deine Träume anregen, Inspiration sein und Spaß machen, aber eins können sie nicht - Mainstream. Ohne Verlagszensur kommt dieses Buch, fern der breiten Masse, kompromisslos eckig und doch fein geschliffen, herzerwärmend direkt für euch gemacht.

These are a few of the author's favorite chapters from the dark humor thriller by Todd Curry and Christopher Abbott. The voiceover characters in this audio version were actually performed by the authors themselves.

The Dragon's Den has revealed to Wizard, now more than ever, the urgency to find the dragons and put a stop to the atrocities, but he must now face the consequences of the death of a man, and the destruction of the Dragon's Den. Wizard must learn to master his power, or never use it again. He discovers parts of himself beyond his control, as time moves at an increasingly slower pace, the closer he gets to living out his dreams of terror.

Strange disembodied entities enjoy an unusual dinner out at a restaurant on the edge of the galaxy. The menu is to die for.