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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Nikolai Gogol

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  Between the Russian Empire and Europe warily sits Ukraine.  Her own history has been brush stroked either by periods of independence or under the oppressive yoke of other more powerful and belligerent neighbours. 
   
  It’s authors, almost always cited as ‘Russian’, or from ‘Little Russia’ are diverse and brilliant.  Some of them stayed, some moved to other lands but always their works harbour part of their Ukrainian souls despite the ever-changing territorial borders. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The Ukrainians - An Introduction 
  2 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 
  3 - The Shades, A Phantasy by Vladimir Korolenko 
  4 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  5 - A Witches Den by Helena Blavatsky 
  6 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 
  7 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin 
  8 - The General's Will by Vera Jelihovsky 
  9 - The Blind Ones by Isaac Babel 
  10 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  11 - Dethroned by Ignaty Potapenko

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  Valley of the Dogs Dark Stories

  James Musgrave

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  Dark Stories for Readers with Surreal, Realistic, and Deep Tastes 
  Silver Medal Winner of the 2021 Reader's Favorite International Contest for Best Adult Anthology 
  An Indie B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree, 2021 
  9.25 overall Evaluation at BookLife, Publishers Weekly 
  Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave's collection of eleven stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of "star power," but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical "Hollywood endings" in very unique and literary ways. This collection has a remedy for the past year's traumas caused by a worldwide pandemic. 
  Award-winning short fiction author, Jacob M. Appel says, "With the publication of Valley of the Dogs, Jim Musgrave joins the ranks of George Saunders, Steven Millhauser, and Kevin Brockmeier at the heart of the modern American short story's second great renaissance." 
  "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." 
  ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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  Tales of Mystery

  David Wright

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  Tales of Mystery boasts an eclectic menagerie of twisted tales, from classic pot boilers, to alien nightmares. Futuristic vampires, vengeful ghosts, hideous monsters and the occasional detective in over her head--a mystery lover's veritable buffet.

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  A Lonely Ride

  Bret Harte

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  A Lonely Ride by Bret Harte is a short story that captures the essence of a solitary journey through a dark and desolate landscape. The narrative begins with the protagonist boarding a stagecoach in Wingdam, California, on a night that is both ominous and quiet. As the only passenger, he reflects on his surroundings and the peculiar behaviors of those at the hotel, who engage in odd rituals before his departure.

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  Caliburn's Fight

  Christopher Cartwright

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  The video was everywhere – a viral sensation sweeping across social media. 
  A golden retriever puppy in Bilbao, Spain. It was placed on a series of different rugs, its fur shifting in real time to match the colors and even the intricate patterns woven into the fabric. The internet was in a frenzy, with hundreds of thousands of comments debating whether it was an elaborate hoax, a genetic anomaly, or something else entirely. 
  But Sam Reilly knew the truth the moment he saw it. 
  This wasn’t a trick. 
  Caliburn, his dog, shared the same genetic trait. 
  The golden retriever was an engineered chimera infused with human and octopus DNA. He was originally designed as a classified military experiment rooted in the legendary craftsmanship of the blacksmith Merlin, who designed King Arthur’s greatest weapons – Excalibur and Caliburn. 
  If the puppy was real, then so too was the danger that followed it. 
  The hunt for Caliburn’s offspring leads Sam into the depths of a forgotten cave – where he stumbles upon an antique Basque Astrolabe that shouldn’t exist. The discovery sets off a chain reaction, dragging Sam into a deadly conflict with a Secret Society that has been protecting a hidden truth since the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804. Meriwether Lewis was murdered to keep the secret buried. 
  The question remains, can Sam work out what to do with the truth, before it gets him killed too?

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  The Whole Story and other stories

  Ali Smith

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  From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. 
  What happens when you run into Death in a busy train station? (You know he’s Death because when he smiles, your cell phone goes dead.) What if your lover falls in love with a tree? Should you be jealous? From the woman pursued by a band of bagpipers in full regalia to the artist who’s built a seven-foot boat out of secondhand copies of The Great Gatsby, Smith’s characters are offbeat, charming, sexy, and as wonderfully complex as life itself. 
  “She’s street-savvy and poignant at once. … There’s a kind of stainless steel clarity at the center of her fiction.”—Boston Globe

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