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Shine (Short Story): A Short Story
By Jodi Picoult. 2016
Jodi Picoult tackles issues of race and privilege in this ebook original short story, a prequel to her upcoming novel…
Small Great Things. In "Shine," the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time and My Sister's Keeper introduces readers to the unforgettable Ruth Brooks. Today is Ruth's first day of third grade at Dalton. The prestigious institution on New York's Upper East Side couldn't be more different from her old school in Harlem. Despite being the smartest girl in her grade, Ruth suspects that her classmates and teachers only see her dark skin. She also notices that Christina, the daughter of her mother's employer, treats Ruth very differently when they're hanging out with the popular girls rather than playing together. Ruth must navigate between two worlds, never losing sight of the dreams she has for herself--in hopes that someday, someone will see her for who she really is. Includes a preview of Jodi Picoult's highly anticipated new novel, Small Great Things! Praise for Jodi Picoult "Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance."--Stephen King "It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes."--Financial Times "Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships."--The Boston Globe "Picoult is a master of the craft of storytelling."--Associated Press6 Short Stories
By Robert T. Jeschonek. 2012
Welcome to six short stories from award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek. This volume includes six full-length tales for one low…
price:"Wave a White Flag." Old man Henry decides to throw everything out the window, literally. No one can stop him as he chucks his belongings from his high-rise apartment and watches them crash to the sidewalk far below. But he can't get rid of some memories no matter how hard he tries."Day of the Mad Shitter." A man's obsessive pursuit of a workplace bathroom slob leads to an epic meltdown with tragic consequences."How to Get Lucky." Hopper the narcoleptic seeks salvation in an experimental sleep lab. Will a makeshift family of sleep-disorder rejects help him find the peace he craves, or will the twisted dreams that haunt him drag him into a personal hell on Earth?"A Wall of Lisas." A lonely woman struggles to overcome the isolation that torments her. Reflections of a terrible tomorrow drive her to the brink of madness."The Day After They Rounded Up Everyone Who Could Love Unconditionally." A society sheds its weakest links--everyone capable of unconditional love. In the aftermath, one of the survivors starts to think something wasn't quite right about the glorious purge."The Walking Bomb." What's the worst that can happen to a minister working in a bomb factory? A streak of bad luck that turns him into the next best thing to a human bomb. As disasters rain down around him and kill the people he loves most, this modern-day Job sets out on a journey of discovery that might just lead to a genuine miracle of healing and redemption.Two Short Stories and Three Very Short Stories
By Madeleine Oh. 2014
This third collection of naughty stories is a rather mixed bag: There is a rather delicious revenge story, a vampire…
one with an historical setting and three short shorts that are sensual and erotic more than explicit but feature my heroine Annie who finally ended up (with a different hero) in my novel Power Exchange. The last read is a rather sexy excerpt from Power Exchange featuring a threesome.Seif: short sci-fi stories (Short ebook stories #1)
By Petra Starkova. 2021
The ebook SEIF contains my sci-fi short stories and was released in the Czech Republic independently, without the involvement of…
a publisher, on March 1, 2021. It includes my older sci-fi short stories that were previously published in magazines and anthologies.Collected short stories
By Aldous Huxley. 1992
Twenty-one short stories originally published in 1957 reflect Huxley's penchant for mysticism and interest in social commentary. Includes "Happily Ever…
After," "The Death of Lully," "Sir Hercules," "Little Mexican," "Young Archimedes," "Chawdron," "Fairy Godmother," and "The Claxtons."Screwjack: A Short Story
By Hunter S. Thompson. 1991
An almost unnaturally poignant love story from the father of "Gonzo" journalism and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter…
S. Thompson.What makes the romantic short story Screwjack so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden: that "we are doomed. Mama has gone off to Real Estate School...and after that maybe even to Law School. We will never see her again." Hunter S. Thompson's most searing and unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is simultaneously eerie and feverish, debauched and affecting. Never before--and perhaps never since--has modern man's melancholia been so vividly revealed in one powerful story.Southpaw: Short Stories
By Lisa St. Aubin De Teran. 1999
Venezuela and Italy, villages and prisons, forests and whore houses are the backdrops to these short stories which reflect the…
people and the places that have informed this wonderful writer's work. Antonio Mezzano in Umbria, the blind man who gathers village gossip in his one good hand; La Rusa who runs her Rainbow brothel in the Andes; Eladio 'the mad man' who searches with his mute son for the eagle they stubbornly believe will restore them to health; Otto, the political prisoner called Proff who shares his cell with a killer; tiny Silvio the poet on Buona Vita Street; Nanzia, the family cook whose heart was chopped like parsley on marble when love came her way. In many senses, these are the dispossessed, the southpaws - prostitutes, peasants, shopkeepers, mothers among them.Delilah: A short story
By Jessica Sorensen. 2014
Delilah Peirce: the Invisible Girl. Men crane their necks around Delilah just to catch a glimpse of her bombshell mother.…
Delilah knows looks of indifference, of friendship -- but never of desire. Then she meets Dylan Sanderson, the impossibly gorgeous guy who thinks she's beautiful. When he looks at her, she feels needed. When he kisses her, her troubles disappear. And when he tells her he will never hurt her, she believes him . . .Three Short Stories
By Madeleine Oh. 2014
From Madeleine Oh, perfect for a bed time story or a quiet moment.: Three naughty stories, all with a paranormal…
twist: A young woman has an unexpected and wild encounter in the depths of the country, another meets a beautiful and inspiring shaper shifter, and the last story features a total fantasy meeting with a mythical creature. And to finish off, an excerpt from Interlude, a paranormal novella from Elloras Cave.Freaks (Short Story)
By Tess Gerritsen. 2010
In this free Rizzoli & Isles short story from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent…
Girl, a bizarre death comes with a supernatural twist. Homicide cop Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles have seen their fair share of mortal crimes, but the death of Kimberly Rayner may qualify as inhuman in more ways than one. When corpse of the emaciated seventeen-year-old girl is discovered next to an empty coffin in an abandoned church, mysterious bruises around the throat suggest foul play. Caught fleeing the scene is the victim’s closest friend, Lucas Henry, an equally skeletal, pale teenager who claims he’s guilty only of having a taste for blood—a craving he shared with Kimberly. But the victim’s distraught father doesn’t believe in vampires, only vengeance. And now, another life may be at risk unless Rizzoli and Isles can uncover the astonishing truth.Screwjack: A Short Story
By Hunter S. Thompson. 2000
Among the many documents, manuscripts, personal papers and artworks that miraculously survived the Great Firestorm that swept the Duke Estate…
in the winter of '88 was this one--a profoundly disturbing love letter that he wrote to his wife only sixteen days before his disappearance.Fury: Short Story
By Gláucio Imada Tamura. 2022
Renan hides a secret that his girlfriend can't even imagine. After he disappears without leaving his whereabouts, finally, after three…
months of intense searching in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Valentina discovers that he has moved to São Paulo. Will her love withstand the harsh test of abandonment? What made Renan disappear without even warning her? Discover all the answers by reading “FURY”; a tale filled with marital tensions, breathtaking mysteries, ending in surprisingly sentimental revelations.Southpaw: Short Stories
By Lisa St. Aubin De Teran. 1999
Venezuela and Italy, villages and prisons, forests and whore houses are the backdrops to these short stories which reflect the…
people and the places that have informed this wonderful writer's work. Antonio Mezzano in Umbria, the blind man who gathers village gossip in his one good hand; La Rusa who runs her Rainbow brothel in the Andes; Eladio 'the mad man' who searches with his mute son for the eagle they stubbornly believe will restore them to health; Otto, the political prisoner called Proff who shares his cell with a killer; tiny Silvio the poet on Buona Vita Street; Nanzia, the family cook whose heart was chopped like parsley on marble when love came her way. In many senses, these are the dispossessed, the southpaws - prostitutes, peasants, shopkeepers, mothers among them.Flowers for Algernon (Creative Short Stories Ser.Creative Short Stories Series)
By Daniel Keyes. 1988
The narrator, a mentally impaired man of thirty-two, receives an operation to increase his learning ability. But although his mentality…
develops at high speed, there is always the possibility of regression. For junior and senior high and older readersGreat short stories by American women (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
By Candace Ward. 1996
A Collection of 13 short stories including "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat",…
plus superb fiction by great American authors including Kate Chopin, WIlla Cather, Edith Wharton, and others. AdultReal mothers: short stories
By Audrey Callahan Thomas. 1981
Real life: short stories
By Sharon Butala. 2002
In these short stories, Butala introduces the reader to a number of women who are experiencing bitter difficulties - cancer,…
rape, beatings from husbands. Throughout the collection, as these women feel trapped by fate or circumstance, the question returns again and again: what is free will and what is unavoidable destiny? Is fate, as she asks in the title story, "met" or "made"? Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2002.Wound ballistics: short stories
By Steven Manners. 2002
Island boyz: short stories
By Graham Salisbury. 2002
Ten stories, introduced by a short poem, about Hawaiian teenagers. In "Waiting for the War," two boys have a horse,…
but it won't let them ride or even get close. Then a soldier from Texas gives them a little help. For junior and senior high readers. 2002Trust me: short stories
By John Updike. 1987
Elegantly written tales, many of which were first published in the "New Yorker," focussing on divorce, upper-middle-class American life-style, and…
suburban sex. "Still of Some Use" shows a family torn apart by divorce who momentarily come together to clean out their old attic. "Pygmalion" comments upon second wives, and "The City" captures a divorced salesman's "essential solitude." Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex