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Andrew just wants to bring a little Pride Day joy to the Blue Star Diner. A rainbow flag, a splash of color, a moment of celebration — simple, right? Not when his father storms in, yanks the flag down, and turns a disagreement into a blowup that leaves Andrew shaken and Rafael stepping in to protect him. One ugly moment becomes the spark that lights a much bigger fire, and suddenly Andrew and Rafael are facing fallout they never saw coming.

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Bloodhaven, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Projection booths with haunted pasts, secretive cults that one should never approach, psychics who keep turning up dead. An assortment of chilling short stories await —bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Bloodhaven?"Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!"—VICTOR MILLER, Writer of Friday the 13th

Welcome to the LOVE YOU TO DEATH multi author short story collection! Love and Valentines related stories to make your heart race and your spine tingle! There’s a fine line between love and hate. Come listen as these main characters struggle to find love, keep love, or survive love. Josephine is the woman to go to for jilted lovers. From lacing chocolates with laxatives to knowing where to hide a body, she has the skills.

Автор мастерски смешивает реализм повседневной жизни с элементами магического, психологического триллера и социальной драмы, создавая уникальную атмосферу, которая заставляет задуматься о цене свободы, любви, предательства и истинной воли. «Вост-Сибирград» — сборник малой прозы и исследование русского характера в таежных ландшафтах, приглашение к размышлению о том, что делает нас людьми и как мы отвечаем на вызовы жизни. Это сибирский текст нового формата, но наследующий классической традиции: суровая природа, отчаянные, но не отчаявшиеся люди, полифония эмоций.

Step into the shadowy corridors of NoSleep sensation Kyle Harrison’s Very Dark Thoughts. A scientist analyzes audio from Mars that reveals mysterious screams. A young man takes a haunted plane flight. An unsettling life-sized doll hides a sinister secret. A man races against time to solve a series of twisted puzzles in a sadistic escape room. An arctic excavation unleashes an attack from an alternate dimension. A man seeks a supernatural wandering campfire in the woods.

The Star of Susa. A crown won in silence. A kingdom forged in secrets. A destiny written in the stars. In the heart of the glittering Achaemenid Empire, Susa is a city of gilded cages and lethal whispers. For Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in the shadows of the exile, survival depends on remaining invisible. But when the volatile King Ahasuerus deposes his Queen, the machinery of the empire reaches into the dust of the streets to pluck Hadassah from her home. Stripped of her name and her past, she becomes Esther—a girl transformed by a year of myrrh and jasmine into a weapon of grace.

On a photography trip in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Ryan Jordan hears the low drone of Buddhist voices chanting up the street. Hundreds of monks are streaming across a bridge. To investigate, and wanting to photograph the procession, he engages a local tuk-tuk driver to drive him to monks’ destination. With streets blocked, they detour through various alleys and side streets, eating up time, and leaving Ryan to wonder if he is being taken for a ride. Skeptical but determined, he stays with the driver despite the obstacles. Has he made the right choice?

Ruth: The Harvest of Grace A Nation in Decay. A House in Ruins. A Love that Defies the Law. The era of the Judges is a time of "Double Wickedness"—a world of bronze and bone where the tribes of Israel have traded their Covenant for the shadows of local gods and the dust of a relentless famine. Naomi was a woman of "Pleasantness" who walked out of Bethlehem with a husband and two sons, only to find herself hollowed out by a decade of silence in the alien landscape of Moab. Returning as "Mara," she is a woman of bitter shadows, convinced that the Almighty has turned His face away.

Within this book--Moon and Stone--You will find stories of strange fox hunts; distressed opera stars; droll, odd, and dangerous neighbors; a fiction editor who perhaps works for The New Yorker; an officious doctor on a ghostly river walk; a poetry war; a magical Waterbear. Also, find poems, chants, sigils, and songs--some funny, others, gothic, searching... all, messages from what T. F. Long likes to call the wide primal river.

The Song of the Stone Well is a quiet evening story set in a hidden meadow, where an ancient stone well hums softly beneath the earth and the air grows still as daylight fades.

La espiritualidad más oscura te conduce a la locura más reveladora. Este libro reúne cuentos sobre el encuentro entre la espiritualidad y la locura. Son relatos de esencia filosófica, científica y psicológica, que surgen de las contradicciones, reflexiones y creatividad de un psicólogo...

『ググってカルタ君』（著者：鳩院 ジュノ）あなたの近くにいそうで、どこにでもいなそうな男「カルタくん」。会社に着ていくにはあまりにカジュアルダウンしたファー付きダウンにギラギラスーツ、足元にはとんがり靴。

When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.

恋の悩みや迷いを抱えたり、プレゼントに困った若い男女たちが、ふと見かけた小さなアンティークショップ。 何故か気になる。 ふらっと立ち寄り導かれたこのお店から、心揺らぐ物語が巻

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken English in the process.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture...

A quiet encounter… with something that refuses to be forgotten. In A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant delivers a chilling and atmospheric tale that blurs the line between reality and the supernatural. What begins as a simple request soon leads to an eerie and unforgettable experience—one that...