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From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy caught up in a robbery to a girl desperate to save a failing greyhound, the characters who populate this short story anthology could have dropped straight from a Nick Cave song book. These 21 stories, from some of Australia's favourite creators, respond to Cave's visionary genius with...
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Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays on what's new in the world of speculative genres. With interviews, personal essays, rants, and raves, the authors of Interstellar Flight Magazine explore the vast outreaches of nerdom.
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited mystery collection:
Edgar Wallace:
The Four Just Men
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Victor L. Whitechurch:
The Canon in Residence
Anna Katharine Green:
The Leavenworth Case
A Strange Disappearance
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
That Affair Next Door
Lost Man's Lane
The Circular Study
G. K. Chesterton:
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Donnington Affair
Arthur Conan...
5) Resilience
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Blindsided by a break-up? Betrayed by someone you treasured? Broken and beaten down by life? We've been where you are. Unfortunately, a shattered heart or hopeless day is a universal suffering that can connect us all. Women are caretakers and providers, on top of the many other hats we wear daily. Yet in the midst of all our day to day responsibilities, we shoulder crushing obstacles. Many of us feel we can't allow ourselves to miss a beat. So, where...
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In the foreword to El Chiquito Big Book, poet Melissa Castro Almandina writes, "The works in this book will touch you, will remind you of what it's like to be a child again and will change you from root-to-soot-to-gold." The students of Pickard Elementary spent their year with 826CHI exploring poetic forms, experimenting with language, and finding ways to wrap words around the world that go beyond what is typical taught in schools. Some poems are...
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The Henderson Writers Group challenges its members each year to submit works for blind judgement. Those with top scores are presented here. Enjoy this multitude of works written by K. Ray Katz, Jean Widner, Jo A. Wilkins, Fred Rayworth, Michelle Smith, Frank Westcott, Ned Barnett, Donna DeVargas, Thomas J. Benner, Keech Ballard, Valerie J. Runyan, Joseph DeBenedetti, David Long, J. M. Dohanich, Wolf O'Rourc, Anderson Black, Audrey Balzart, Cora Fey...
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A collaborative effort between poets from all corners of the world and all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize presents a collection of poetry like no other. Rife with heartache, longing, laughter, and life, this book captures the spark of creativity and the vastness that is the human soul within its pages. This collection contains stories that are funny, some that are sad, some that are beautiful-and all that are true.
Diverse in content...
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Montañas and three or four ríos es una antología bilingüe en español e inglés que celebra y amplifica las voces de escritores ganadores del Premio Ciudad y Naturaleza José Emilio Pacheco, un galardón cuyo objetivo es el de promover la reflexión humana sobre la interrelación entre lo urbano y la naturaleza. El valor de esta selección de textos es que también nos regala ensayos elocuentes y reveladores desde las perspectivas de cuatro mujeres:...
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The emotional intensity of our post-pandemic anthology has given way to a more reflective mood as many of the finalist entries explore, explain, or challenge beliefs. While nonfiction took the Grand Prize, the fiction, children's/YA, and poetry authors were likewise interested in digging deeper into perspectives on culture and humanity. If you enjoy discussing life, the universe, and everything with a stranger, you'll love this. There's a proverb...
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We live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive. Strange encounters abound. David Mitchell meets a ghost in Hiroshima Prefecture; Lydia Davis recounts her...
12) NightMare
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"Nightmare anthology" is a book with different short stories, Romance, Misery, Horror and many more, this is one of the book with collection of high quality short stories. Read these short stories and have fun. Feel its content with quality stories for you.
13) Mugby Junction
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En 1865, Charles Dickens sufrió un accidente cuando descarriló el tren en el que viajaba. Un año después, vivió una mala experiencia con el servicio de la estación de Rugby, donde tuvo que quedarse durante un día entero. Fue a partir de estos sucesos que Dickens decidió, junto con sus colaboradores Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday y Hesba Stretton, escribir una serie de relatos repletos de humor negro que encuentran su punto...
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ETHAN LAUGHMAN is a recruitment, marketing, and communications specialist at the University of Georgia's College of Environment and Design. Among the few who have read every Flannery O'Connor Award—winning volume, he has collaborated closely with the series' authors in compiling these new anthologies.
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The zephyr of an urban city attracts people.
For those who stay on, adapting to the hubbub, is inevitable.
The cycle of experiences can be broadly shown in three phases.
The Brahma Stage, is the learning phase which is full of zest and bliss, spiked with creativity.
The Vishnu Stage, is the peak, where the feeling of knowing everything there is to learn, plateaus.
The Maheshwara Stage, is when realities dawn upon the self as bitter they...
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Often sentimentalized as nurturing through food, Italian American women have struggled against this stereotype to speak of the realities of their lives. In this unique collection, they speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memory rooted in experiences of food, more than fifty writers dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry,...
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Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear-and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented authors, including New York Times bestsellers Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Jody Lynn Nye, have stood on the shores of their psyches and looked out over...
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TO THE FORTUNATE READER: In days gone by, the men who penned their words of wisdom to MUSIC were known as 'Singin' Cowboys. In our time, we have men like Brian W. Woodward and others like him who wear their hearts on their sleeves as they pen their heartfelt words on sheets of paper for all to read and enjoy. Brian, Is not just a member of the Dead Poet's Society, he is probably the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of this esteemed club: and yet,...
20) Love Wows
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Love Wows Engr Dr Naila Hina Affectionate Wows, promises of love and chances of destiny in one single file.
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