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In the middle of the night after driving for hours, you anticipate arriving soon at your destination, but then something unexpected happens. You take a wrong turn, fog rolls in, and you are alone on the road. Road Noise: Stories To Thrill & Chill elicits the myriad emotions you experience as you...

This is a collection of NINE SHORT STORIES, all based (unfortunately) on my own experience. Dating, divorce, desperation--all that good stuff! After nineteen years of marriage, I was suddenly thrust into a brave new world of dating--online, offline, standing in line, listening to lines--and...

Greed, desire, ambition, loss, illness, death, and the driving quest to find purpose in a meaningless world.—this literary collection tempts your palate with a multitude of themes and subjects, each more daring than the last. The characters in these 13 stories are wading through no man's land, wanting...

Fantastic stories of love, loss, and survival in this collection of ten short stories, plus the novella Band of Lyra introducing the swash buckling adventure team in a classic sword and sorcery tale. Along with brand new stories, this volume also includes stories of  familiar characters returning...

The first collection of short stories for M. E. Matthews, she brings together and re imagines stories from her days of blogging. M. E. Matthews blends good old monster tales with stories of lost love. There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of the afterlife, guilt, unrequited...

In his short life Robert E. Howard produced hundreds of short stories and works of poetry. Commonly associated with the era of pulp fiction he created numerous characters of which the most popular is Conan the Cimmerian. The titular story "The People of the Black Circle" because of its epic scope and...

Specially commissioned short stories, by prize-winning authors, on the theme of Mirrors.READERSHIP: 10 – 14 A collection of new , specially commissioned short stories by some of the finest authors of children’s books today: Anne Fine, Berlie Doherty, Leslie Howarth, Mary Arrigan, Gaye Hicilmaz,...

The popularity of short stories dates back to the days of glossy magazines; think Vogue, Saturday Evening Post, Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and certainly, The New Yorker. Although in recent years the short story has taken second place to the novel, [narrative non-fiction and flash fiction somewhat...

We all grew up with fairy tales; stories of daring deeds, uncovered mysteries and prophecies fulfilled, peopled by princes and princesses, abandoned basketed babies found wrapped in the petals of flowers and gingerbread men on the run from evil bakers. But why do we only ever hear the ancient tales?...

The Elizabeth Stories serves as a legacy of Alfred Baroodys wife, Elizabeththe authorwho previously published several articles, short stories, and books. This is a collection of ten short stories and two novelettes compiled into one book. These are stories about adventure, action, mystery, and so much more.

The Legend of Tanisha Biggers: Deluxe Edition is a 19,225+ word anthology. Plus, the volume also includes three Author's Notes with a combined total of 7,650+ words. This anthology that brings two short stories and a novelette together to tell a larger, overarching narrative in three...

A creepy short story, "Black-Eyed Kids" is part of Spooky Shorts, a collection of scary short stories, A-Z. Britney enjoys babysitting Tyler until she notices three strange kids in the neighborhood. When she associates a gruesome murder with the kids, no one believes her, except an...

A collection of short stories set in the Mars Encounter universe by J. J. Wright. Can be read either by those new to the Mars Encounter stories or those that have already read the Mars Encounter novel.Humans are living and working on Mars, only it must be kept secret from the Earth bound population....

Three charming Christmas tales sure to bring a smile to the whole family. #1: A Captured Santa Claus by Thomas Nelson Page The setting is the countryside around Richmond, Virginia. The time is 1863, the middle of the United States Civil War. The Stafford family is aligned with the Confederacy,...