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Author: Mick Jackson Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571317197 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 137
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From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness, and childhood boredom. By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always illuminating, and further evidence of one of the most original and brilliant imaginations in contemporary fiction.
Author: Mick Jackson Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571317197 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 137
Book Description
From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness, and childhood boredom. By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always illuminating, and further evidence of one of the most original and brilliant imaginations in contemporary fiction.
Author: François Coppée Publisher: Publio Kiadó Kft. ISBN: 963381801X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 76
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It is of no importance, the name of the little provincial city where Captain Mercadier—twenty-six years of service, twenty-two campaigns, and three wounds—installed himself when he was retired on a pension. Two more geese, strolling in the grass across the bottom of the page. It was quite like all those other little villages which solicit without obtaining it a branch of the railway; just as if it were not the sole dissipation of the natives to go every day, at the same hour, to the Place de la Fontaine to see the diligence come in at full gallop, with its gay cracking of the whips and clang of bells. It was a place of three thousand inhabitants—ambitiously denominated souls in the statistical tables—and was exceedingly proud of its title of chief city of the canton. It had ramparts planted with trees, a pretty river with good fishing, a church of the charming epoch of the flamboyant Gothic, disgraced by a frightful station of the cross, brought directly from the quarter of Saint Sulpice. Every Monday its market was gay with great red and blue umbrellas, and countrymen filled its streets in carts and carriages. But for the rest of the week it retired with delight into that silence and solitude which made it so dear to its rustic population. Its streets were paved with cobble-stones; through the windows of the ground-floor one could see samplers and wax-flowers under glass domes, and, through the gates of the gardens, statuettes of Napoleon in shell-work. The principal inn was naturally called the Shield of France; and the town-clerk made rhymed acrostics for the ladies of society.
Author: Kevin A Kuhn Publisher: Kevin A. Kuhn ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 203
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Proud to announce that "Ten Tales of a Dark Tomorrow" has won three literary awards: Gold Winner for Short Stories in the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards Silver for Short Story/Novella in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Finalist for Short Stories in the National Indie Excellence Awards Submitted for your approval—Ten Tales of a Dark Tomorrow, a collection of speculative fiction inspired by the original Twilight Zone series. In the spirit of that iconic, timeless show, these mysterious and gripping narratives explore parallel worlds, faraway planets, dystopian societies, and unsettling reality. •A toddler shifts through parallel worlds, changing into different versions of herself. What would a mother do for her daughter? •A chef finds an alternate food source on a remote world. When the new chef arrives, will he be forced to reveal a horrific secret? •A twelve-year-old Earth girl is randomly chosen to rule the galaxy. Why are galactic administrators so desperate to stop her? •Humanity is on trial, annihilation at stake. Can an underdog alien lawyer save us? •Time seems to stand still as a young boy bikes with his troubled friend. Is the friend causing this phenomenon—and what if he doesn’t stop it? Explore space and time—and confront humanity’s deepest fears—with Ten Tales of a Dark Tomorrow.
Author: Arthur C Clarke Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9780575074965 Category : Science fiction, English Languages : en Pages : 320
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This classic collection of short stories includes some of Clarke's finest work: vivid glimpses into the future, a year, a decade, a century, a millennium from now.
Author: Rayne Hall Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781501056826 Category : Languages : en Pages : 228
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A collection of entertaining, exciting, thought-provoking stories. Explore the relationship between humankind and technology, ponder social issues and enjoy the costuming, etiquette and gadgetry of an age that never was but might have been. To celebrate the tenth volume of the Ten Tales anthologies, this book contains two bonus stories. Featuring stories by: Rayne Hall Day Al-Mohamed Nied Darnell Jonathan Broughton Mark Cassell Liv Rancourt Kevin O. McLaughlin Bob Brown Joanne Anderton Morgan A. Pryce Kin S. Law Mark Cassell
Author: Suduhita Mitra Publisher: ISBN: 9781736382400 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Unsettling Stories from Unheard VoicesThese stories traverse through the lives of ten ordinary individuals living in the USA and India (Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Varanasi and remote Arunachal Pradesh) but they all have one thing in common - their unexpected and convoluted reality. Sometimes regular life can be wicked!Hello Sunshine! In Minnesota, amidst the Covid19 pandemic, a neighborhood is scared about a different omen of death. What can be worse than the pandemic itself? Mirror Mirror on the wall A story unfolds in suburban Mumbai, leaving everyone perplexed. There is a schizophrenic husband with an illicit affair, and there is his crazy wife, who is supposedly hatching a plan to kill him. Who are they really? Only their mirror seems to know. Two truths and a lie In an affluent Kolkata neighborhood, an old man recites a story about the famous Kohinoor diamond, forcing the protagonist to question the present narrative. The Perfect Storm On a stormy night in remote Arunachal Pradesh, a lady in distress, a lone driver, and an escaped psychopath cross path momentarily. Who will survive this short encounter? And More.If you love reading books by Roald Dahl and Ruskin Bond, you will love these twisted tales.***"Intriguing collection with a surprising twist. Highly recommended for literature collections for the contemporary Indian writings."- Midwest Book Reviews"It is a short story reader's delight! All stories cover a range of emotions, experiences, and settings; giving one the sensation of seeing a great deal of the world and the people who inhabit it, without moving an inch. A great satisfying collection all in all!"- Ushasi Sen Basu - Author Kathputli & A Killer Amongst Us"Suduhita has beautifully penned the various facets of human life in urban societies through love, marriage, agony, jealousy, conspiracy, and human psychology."- Prof. Tamo Mibang, Former Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi Central University
Author: Mick Jackson
Author: Mick Jackson
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Author: François Coppée
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