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Promise’s life is turned upside down when she begins to experience something she can't understand. As she faces the weight of hidden trauma, she finds herself trapped between a dark secret and the safety of her family. But when an unexpected ally offers her a way out, Promise must decide if she’s ready to confront her past and reclaim the future she deserves. In this gripping, emotional story, one girl’s fight for survival and a chance to rebuild her fractured relationship with her mother unfolds in a journey of courage, strength, and hope.

In Liliana Colanzi’s singular collection of short stories, set in a Latin America at once real and otherworldly, human vice contaminates every second. Amid eerie near-future landscapes, in communities both ordinary and uncanny, and during the very real fallout of a nuclear disaster, Colanzi’s characters must contend with a poisoned legacy.

At the edge of a silent village, a walled garden hums softly at dusk. Beneath an apricot tree, a humble pillowmaker works in the fading light, filling soft linen cases with herbs, feathers, and memory. Every pillow he shapes carries a trace of the day—the scent of lavender, the hush of rain, the warmth of stones cooling at sunset.

Alessandra si è lasciata convincere da sua madre a trascorrere il Natale in montagna, a casa di alcuni amici di famiglia. Ha accettato solo dopo aver saputo che il figlio dei loro amici, Tommaso, non ci sarà, perché impegnato in uno dei suoi viaggi esotici in giro per il mondo. I due si conoscono da tanti anni ma non sono mai andati particolarmente d'accordo, e Alessandra sogna un Natale tranquillo, non certo scene di guerriglia a tavola. Peccato che il destino abbia invece in serbo per lei delle feste piene di sorprese.

In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Sometimes realist, sometimes not, the book revolves around Kol B'Seder, a fictional Reform synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill.

For millennia, Death watched over the fleeting lives of mortals, claiming their souls as is her duty. Each year, the story was the same. Humans wasted the gifts they were given, allowing the precious sands of time to slip through their grasp. But, who did they blame? Not themselves, of course, but the horseman who came to collect her due. Such an existence grew tiresome for the creature. Bored of humanity’s antics, the reaper opened a quiet apothecary and began peddling her curious wares. Her little shop became an escape from their ire, a distraction to pass the decades.

On a narrow country road in the English countryside, a faded cream-and-green bus rolls through the twilight — slow, steady, quiet. It stops at a sign that reads Before Your Dream. One by one, passengers board: an elderly woman with a basket of warm scones, a man with a bouquet he doesn’t remember picking up, a girl in boots too large. They don’t speak. They simply know it’s time.

From the author of the five volume Fork in the Road series of short stories, comes In Sunshine or In Shadow, seven new stories ranging across plot, time, and place.

Hanna Kramer lebt ein perfektes Leben–bis ein fremder Kassenzettel, ein süßlicher Duft in ihrem Schal und eine Chatnachricht, die sie nie geschrieben hat, ihre Welt in Risse zerreißen.

بطولة خليل البخيل وعدالات هل يمكن أن يأتي الجديد أو تأتي الفائدة، أي فائدة، من وراء خليل البخيل؟ وهو الشخص البخيل الشحيح الخامل الذي يعيش حياة روتينية رتيبة بطيئة كحياة السلاحف، والذي يعمد دومًا إلى خفض الاستهلاك والطاقة ليوفرهما لأوقاتٍ أخرى!

In a quiet lane beneath the clocktower, there is a small shop that lives between time and memory. Its shelves are filled with forgotten treasures—canes polished by years of touch, violins that remember their music, books that still breathe with stories. And at the back of the room, lit by a single candle, stands a mirror that does not reflect the face, but something deeper.

When grief-stricken psychiatrist Dr. Gabriel Winter starts seeing blood-soaked Christmas visions, he learns Santa’s naughty list is deadly. Love Santa wants to spread Christmas cheer—one scream at a time!

A man gets into a car that can take him anywhere he can imagine—including the past, into the worst mistake of his life, a memory he does not want to relive, cannot escape, and is even more afraid to alter. A seemingly harmless, forgettable film about “alien hand syndrome” inspires a wave of self-harm among viewers—and even stranger things among those who become obsessed with it.

'Tis the busy season in Willow Adam's bakery, Ambrosia. The Winter Holidays are upon her and even the whisk and rolling pin are working on their own. She calls for more magical help, but instead of her fae relatives appearing, Nigel Walsh walks in. He reminds her that she is the keeper of the Heart of Spirit Springs this coming year, an artifact of ancient and mysterious origins that protects this special town. Willow doubles down to finish her orders in time with the assistance of elves, other magical beings, and two teenagers to deliver the pastries.

A horrifying collection of interconnected tales, The Wishing Well centers around an ever-shifting, unearthly bar where desires are commodities and the price is everything. Each story follows a different patron, driven by want, ambition, or desperation, who casts a wish into the bar’s namesake. Join our patrons as they discover this well is less a cheap gimmick and more a dark conduit for twisted fulfillment, revealing the true horror of getting exactly what you wished for.

En las profundidades del tiempo y del océano duerme algo que no debería existir, aguardando el momento de despertar. A través de diarios, informes y testimonios dispersos, un hombre se aproxima a una verdad tan inmensa que amenaza con quebrar la mente humana: la existencia de Cthulhu, un ser ancestral cuya sola presencia desafía la razón y el orden del cosmos. Escuchar o leer La llamada de Cthulhu es adentrarse en el corazón del horror cósmico, un viaje hacia lo desconocido que define toda la obra de H. P. Lovecraft.

Die Geschichten wecken Erinnerungen an vertraute Erlebnisse: den Duft von frischen Sonntagsbrötchen, das Knarren alter Holzstühle im Dorfgasthof oder das Kribbeln bei der ersten Fahrradtour. Jede Erzählung ist kurz, bildhaft und voller Gefühl – ideal zum Vorlesen, gemeinsamen Eintauchen und Wiederentdecken.

Du triffst Figuren zwischen 60 und 75, die aus alltäglichen Momenten kleine Abenteuer machen. Ein geplatzter Plan wird zum Startschuss, ein schiefer Anfang zur humorvollen Anekdote. Die Geschichten sind klar erzählt, voller Sinneseindrücke und enden mit einem Bild, das nachklingt: der Duft von nassem Holz im Gemeinschaftsgarten, ein Chorakkord, der im Brustkorb weiter schwingt, das Klicken eines reparierten Toasters.

Die Geschichten sind in einer einfachen und klaren Sprache verfasst, sodass sie jedem Zuhörer Freude bereiten. Von heiteren Begegnungen bis zu rührenden Momenten – jede Geschichte bietet beste Unterhaltung und sorgt für schöne Momente und Erinnerungen.

In a quiet mountain temple where morning mist drifts like prayer, stillness becomes its own form of devotion. Clouds Resting on the Temple Roof is a sleep story for adults written to guide the listener toward rest, reflection, and peace.