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A hardware store revelation over Jack and Coke. A roadside epiphany with a Sidecar. An Olympic memory preserved in something amber and strong. Each tale in Whiskey, Wanderlust, and Woven Tales arrives with its own invitation—mix this, sip slow, and let the story find you.

Man kommer hjem fra arbejde, og ens mand ligger i indkørslen med syltetøj om munden. Hvad er han så? Han er et pindsvin, der er blevet kørt over. Og han kan blandt andet også være en sko – som titlen på den novelle lyder – men så sandelig også kvindens mand. Han er gal på den barske og rørende og selvfølgelige måde, som gør Blendstrups danskere så overraskende og skægge at læse om.

Noveller, der skildrer absurde og tankevækkende episoder i personernes familie- og hverdagsliv og livet i parcelhuskvartererne - set og fortalt med en skæv vinkel og lun humor.

Nella cornice di una San Pietroburgo trasfigurata dalla luce irreale delle notti estive, un giovane sognatore vive isolato dalla realtà, rifugiandosi in un mondo di fantasie letterarie e solitudine. Durante una passeggiata lungo i canali, l'incontro fortuito con Nastenka, una ragazza in attesa dell'uomo che ama, rompe il suo isolamento. Per quattro notti, i due si scambiano confidenze, speranze e timori, intrecciando un legame delicato e profondo. Il sognatore intravede per la prima volta la possibilità di una felicità reale, ma su tutto incombe la persistente minaccia del disincanto.

A young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York. On a night-flight, travelling with a violin older than the United States, a professional musician slips through time. A man who loses all he thought he had, and finds himself haunted by all he never will, comes to a painful new understanding of what it might mean to love. Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, longing, of new beginnings, and the ways we find shelter in each other.

This audiobook is a collection of five science fiction stories, the first is a South American "monster in the house" classic jungle survival creature-feature. The second story is, "Last Place On Earth," a contemporary arctic Pliestocene Cold War Halloween contemplation. The third, "Sirens of Celebes" is an eerie SCUBA dive into psychodrama, a study of descent into mental illness. The fourth story, "Green Hell," is a dark humor view of lawn care in South Florida. The fifth and last story is a hard science spaceship crash and lunar survival adventure.

A month after coming out as transgender, Sarah is trying to do something that feels bigger than any confession: walk into her girlfriend Lexi’s house on Christmas Day as herself—dress, curls, makeup, and all.

Jakob Wassermann (10. März 1873 - 1. Januar 1934) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Er zählte zu den produktivsten und populärsten Erzählern seiner Zeit. „ Der nie geküsste Mund und andere Erzählungen " gehören zu seinen bekanntesten Erzählungen. Dieses Werk, darunter die psychologisch tiefgründige Novelle „ Treunitz und Aurora ", zeigen Wassermanns typische Themen wie Schuld, Sühne und die Auseinandersetzung mit dem eigenen Ich. Inhalt: Der nie geküsste Mund / Treunitz und Aurora / Hilperich

Das Mitternachtstaxi wartet auf dich! Es bringt dich an die dunkelsten Orte deines Verstandes und vielleicht … noch ein Stück weiter. Ein bösartiger Pfleger in einem Altenheim bekommt seine gerechte Strafe. Eine Taxifahrt direkt aus der Hölle. Eine kurze Momentaufnahme des Todes. Ein Mann erliegt dem Gift des Verlangens. Ein Ehepaar auf direktem Weg in den Abgrund. Neue Erzählungen von A.M. Arimont.

Caden always knew that he was different and now he would stop at nothing to match who he is on the outside with who he is on the inside. With a mother who doesn’t share his ideologies, Caden begins research on the deep dark web, looking up do-it-yourself gender reassignment surgeries.

Neste audiolivro, Rodrigo Santos envereda pelo gênero conto e traz histórias instigantes e envolventes, que deixam os ouvintes intrigados com fatos e situações relatados. A construção literária empreendida pelo autor é particularmente feliz: a linguagem é envolvida pela aura da oralidade, de modo que o leitor fica a reboque das falas e das histórias narradas.

The author presents a collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser.

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

After 15 years on the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, Barrett McCaffery is burned out and broken. He’s traded tactical raids for construction sites—honest work that doesn’t remind him of the people he couldn’t save. His marriage is gone, his faith shattered, and his bank account is circling the drain. Then a stranger makes him an offer he can’t refuse: two-hundred and fifty-thousand dollars to perform one more hostage rescue. The stranger’s boss is a father, and the father’s little angel has been kidnapped. It sounds simple—until Barrett realizes his employers left out a few crucial details.

Los cuentos de Alberto Chimal tratan de las proyecciones y los demonios de una «inteligencia» que desplaza y suplanta lo humano hasta su extinción, del poder absoluto de una tecnología adictiva, propiedad de unos pocos, de la ingenuidad de creer en sus buenas intenciones y de las horribles fantasías de poder absoluto y saqueo de este mundo (y hasta de otros mundos). Porque incluso aunque esas máquinas «enfermaran», nuestra fe en ellas podría ser suficiente para que triunfasen sobre nosotros.

Bill works full-time, plays by the rules, and still drowns in debt. When the final notice comes, it’s not a court summons—it’s a knock at the door after dinner. The collection agency doesn’t want money. They want blood. Flesh. Pain. And they want it now. Lucas, the man sent to collect, never wanted this job. But in a world where the cost of living is your soul, he’ll do anything to keep his wife and daughters fed—and safe from the same fate. As Bill is dragged into a nightmarish system where debt is paid in gore and suffering, Lucas must confront the horrors he's become complicit in.

En los cuentos de El comienzo del paraíso, Edmundo Paz Soldán explora cómo, al cambiar dramáticamente lo que nos rodea, nosotros también nos hemos vuelto seres extraños en este planeta. En estos cuentos impactantes y de vigoroso ritmo narrativo –escritos con una prosa envolvente capaz de construir atmósferas variadísimas– aparecen peces monstruosos de las profundidades abisales, árboles estranguladores y animales de una península devastada, que van de mutación en mutación.

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco...

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by a diverse and exciting array of writers, including Wendell Berry, Alice Hoffman, Dave Eggers, Ling Ma, Lori Ostlund, and Anthony Marra. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's...