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41) Short Stories
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Beware tin cats offering invitations, psychopathic chemists with a turret full of collectable porcelain, priests pursuing satanic cults, and evil entities living in windmills.
Better to listen to the green spirit peering over your shoulder, the ghost of a young man with no heart, and Victorian palaeontologist who has unearthed the face of God.
All these stories are free to read at www.booksfromdodo.uk
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Short stories to entice, boggle and thrill:
Future experiments. A one-of-a-kind travel agency. Space-marine trauma. And a decades-long war.
And many more, including:
Two Men In A BoatBoredom EscapesVoices In The MirrorThe Antarctican Land-Grab OffensiveDisobeyedDeath In The Time Of ParadiseShining StarThe Mortician's AlibiDeath Of A CEOPanic On The Streets Of LungerthraxDog's DayeFuture PrisonsAnd He Sadly DiedPopulated Entirely By Concrete Slabs...
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This collection of Short Stories includes six of my readers' favourites, and seven new short stories which I wrote during the pandemic. They say 'out with the old and in with the new' but I say let's look at the entire view.
Favourites Include:
“Dandelion Wine”
“The Umbrella and the Wind”
“Margaret’s Revelation”
“The Brightest Star”
“Darryl and Me”
“Death Wish”.
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The purpose of literature is to depict the reality of the human condition of which the most effective form is the short story, provided it is written in the most simplistic way to achieve universality of expression.
This compilation of short stories deals with the human effort to soften the loneliness of the human state of being in the absence of "reality".
Simultaneously, embedded in the human subconscious is the fantasy of the existence of the...
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Thanksgiving is a book about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. A lonely twelve-year-old girl grows up amid wide responsibilities, a former Manhattan murder detective tries to do right by his estranged children, a wife allows her husband a night out with an old friend, a young man's act of gratitude goes horribly wrong, a social worker makes an alarming call on her client, an old man trying to be decent to younger family members runs...
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This anthology of stories comprises tales of romance, comedy, horror, revenge, fantasy and intrigue as well as many situations relating to love, life and prosperity... each one with superb characters that bring them alive and each one with a twist in the tail. You will really enjoy reading them.
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Stories and storytelling come from the same space as lived experience and can often provide more profound insight and greater consolation than the most reliable body of factual evidence. As we often struggle to make sense and meaning of our dark and imperfect spaces, it is sometimes, those little flecks of light that show us the way forward or the way inward. Following in the tradition of all memorable short stories that have become the fabric of...
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Drawing on her thirty years' experience as a social worker in England and three Australian states, Margaret Hughes' stories explore the dark world at the heart of modern Western society. In this hidden world, children and the elderly suffer misfortune, violence and tragedy. The perpetrators of abuse and exploitation range from poor, illiterate parents to the privileged elite. The response from the authorities is, at times, protective and benign while...
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Bernadou clung to his home with a dogged devotion. He would not go from it to fight unless compelled, but for it he would have fought like a lion. His love for his country was only an indefinite shadowy existence that was not clear to him; he could not save a land that he had never seen, a capital that was only to him as an empty name; nor could he comprehend the danger that his nation ran; nor could he desire to go forth and spend his lifeblood in...
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Honore de Balzac is widely considered as one of the most influential writers in the history of French literature. His multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and short stories entitled "The Human Comedy" is his magnum opus. It is an examination of the human experience depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy. Thirteen of the short stories of Balzac's masterpiece makeup this collection. They include the...
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A collection of six charming short stories to delight children and adults alike.
The Peg Story
It was late autumn, the nights were drawing in, leaves had fallen, it was cold, wet and windy!
At the end of the line, in Mary's back garden hung Mr. peg, looking very sad and forlorn!
The Red Bicycle
It was Christmas morning, the bicycle was still in its box, all wrapped up in Father Christmas paper, and a big red bow!
The Favorite Chair
66-year-old grandpa...
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Thirty nine short stories, including an assassination Italian style, a hidden garden, a murder on a misty lake, a double suicide attempt, a Kenyan conman, love in Florence, a meeting in a snowdrift, an angel hovering by a spire, sheep rustling, fraud on a cruise, a Spanish vineyard and a pig farm, an unidentified man in a coma, what the crane driver saw, a find in the attic, a body floating down a river, a rescue by dolphins, curing arachnophobia,...
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his...
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After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk" in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Early participation in a literary political group landed the writer in exile in Siberia for nearly a decade, an experience...
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"Ideal for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the literary works of an iconic American author. Very highly recommended." ― The Midwest Book Review
Although better known today for his novels, in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald ranked among the top writers of magazine fiction. Fitzgerald represented the dreams and aspirations of the post-World War I generation in his life as well as his works. With his glamorous wife, Zelda,...
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Popular and prolific, Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels as well as dozens of short stories that provide fascinating insights into Victorian life, behavior, and morals. A careful observer of people and places, Trollope created realistic, unsentimental depictions of everyday life that offer enduring entertainment as well as vivid reflections of the attitudes of his era. These six stories originally appeared in periodicals, and Trollope may have drawn...
60) 14 Short Stories
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How far would an ex-bandmate go for revenge? Meet him, and the discouraged wannabe author, some teenagers, a stranded motorist, several married couples, a bootlegger, and other characters in this 14 short story collection of contemporary and historical fiction