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Anna Frenza hates the tyrannical tree huggers and the idiotic eco-warriors—after all, she’s the CEO of Poland’s biggest oil company. But then she finds herself in a trance, sleepwalking into the woods and making love to a tree, manically—all caught on camera. Her career ends and, in the fallout, she discovers her husband’s disturbing secret. Her mind splinters until she is no longer Anna Frenza, CEO. Now—whether by delusion or possession of spirit—she lives in the Duchy of Nysa, a medieval province ruled by the Catholic Church.

Steve Capone, Jr. shares three of his previously unpublished works from the last half decade or so. They are a bit odd. Wonder what it might have been like to see Jesus push a kid off a roof? Why an upstanding young woman might be breaking into a thrift shop after hours? Or what a man earning his million-miler recognition might have sacrificed to earn such high esteem? Three shorts answer these questions, at least in the mind of their author.

Das ist die Geschichte eines Mannes, der seit frühester Kindheit mit seinem Namen auf Kriegsfuß steht. Es geht um Verwirrungen und Pannen, vielleicht auch nur um Pech, welches ständig an die Tür klopft oder von unserem Protagonisten scheinbar angezogen wird. Warum aber ein Tanga bei einer Hochzeit `lebensrettend´ sein kann, welche Rolle `Erika´ spielt oder weshalb fröhliche Kinder der Inquisition gleichkommen – all das erfährt der Leser in dieser lustigen und kurzweiligen Geschichte.

Vor ein paar Jahren hat Marina ihren Mann von einem auf den anderen Tag verlassen. Nun plötzlich ein Lebenszeichen: ob er sich mit ihr treffen wolle? In einem Strandhotel. Mit mulmigen Gefühlen – und jeder Menge aufgestauter Wut - blickt Hermann dem Wiedersehen entgegen. Doch der Abend im luxuriösen Hotel in den Dünen nimmt einen gänzlich unerwarteten Verlauf und steigert sich zu einer irrwitzigen Saalschlacht, bei der buchstäblich kein Auge trocken bleibt.

In this new collection of short stories, Dactyl Literary Award winner Tom Newton once again playfully transmutes base reality into startlingly novel shapes and forms, shifting paradigms from beneath the listener's feet by deftly metamorphosing quotidian banality with whimsical, illusory invention.

En esta colonia, un antiguo comandante ha implementado una máquina de tortura y ejecución extremadamente cruel y elaborada, que graba en la piel del prisionero el motivo de su castigo antes de matarlo. A medida que el oficial observa horrorizado el funcionamiento de la máquina, se ve envuelto en un conflicto moral sobre la justicia, la crueldad y el poder.

El grito del muerto de H. P. Lovecraft, narra los resultados de las investigaciones del Dr. Herbert West sobre la muerte y la reanimación de los cuerpos, desde sus tiempos de estudiante en la ficticia Universidad Miskatonic hasta poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly close to leaving her college years at Westheimer University behind, all she has to do is pass her finals, pack up her life, and ship off to San Francisco for a prestigious Big Pharma internship. The problem? Arvy just found 200 hits of Molly in her dead mother’s closet. And when two drug dealers come to collect what they are owed, they reveal that the pills are not Molly, but Mona – a rare pharmaceutical that induces intense orgasms.

C. J. Cannatelli returns with this disturbing collection of tales to keep you up at night. In this collection, a college student is traumatized by a family heirloom, a sleepwalking man wakes up in a living hell, and many more new stories.

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan. He knows this because of Timmy®, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he’s been in a rut, and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.

Das war's dann mit dem Jünger, Vasallen und Eiferer Der fast schon ernste viertletzte Teil der Daswarsdann-Trilogie »Welchen der beiden viertletzten Teile der Daswarsdann-Trilogie soll man zuerst lesen? Den vollkommen wahnsinnigen oder den fast schon ernsten?« Endlich eine hilfreiche Frage, liebe Kritik. Ich fürchte nur, meine Antwort wird euch nicht gefallen. »Warum nicht?« Na, ja. Ich kann nur sagen, was andere sagen. »Was sagen die denn?« Die einen sagen so, die anderen so. »Scheint egal zu sein, in welcher Reihenfolge wir die Teile abarbeiten«, sagen die Kritiker zu sich.

Embark on a rollicking Florida escapade through this masterfully crafted, wickedly funny comic novel. Set in 1980s Florida, this coming-of-age adventure follows the journey of a 17-year-old aspiring horror filmmaker captivated by a B-movie scream queen. Stealing away from his family’s Palm Beach mansion, he joins forces with an aging con man and his ambitious girlfriend. Together, they race into the heart of the Everglades, where his dream girl is filming Swamp Fiend 2. However, their plans bog down in a treacherous swamp teeming with competing cons and hustles, and a whole lot of alligators!

Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are always just around the corner. In these masterful short stories from the singular mind of the actor and comedian Brett Gelman, you’ll meet five individuals, each navigating a uniquely strange stage of life.

Erin is a plastic girl living in a plastic world. Every day she eats a breakfast of boiled chicken, then conveys her articulated body to Tablet Town, where she sells other figurines Smartbodies: wearable tech that allows full, physical immersion in a virtual world, a refuge from real life’s brutal wars, oppressive governmental monitoring, and omnipresent eco-terrorist insurgency. If you cut her, she will not bleed—but she and her fellow figurines can still be cracked or blown apart by gunfire or bombs, or crumble away from nuclear fallout.

Outside of a childhood nickname she can’t shake, Piglet’s rather pleased with how her life’s turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she’s got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she’s always cooking.

Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old subversive he once spied upon. Soon, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych band together to uncover the source of the city's “anomalies.”

Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he’s aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a bloodred sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on belowdecks.

For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea ‘Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!’ – Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her...

Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There’s just one problem—he’s dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement. The potential of a glorious legacy for their late friend – and by extension, for them all – is only a mere eight days away. What could go wrong?

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders?