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  A Transgression

  Anton Chekhov

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  Miguev, a married, intelligent collegiate assessor, is haunted with anxiety and worry. Miguev has a secret that he doesn't want his wife, the town, or his colleagues to discover. His mistress, after becoming pregnant and having his child, has recently tried to extort money from him in exchange for her silence. She threatens to ruin his reputation and divulge his secret shame to everyone unless he pays her. In the height of his fear and worry about his present situation, his fears seem to come alive when he discovers a baby bundled in a blanket on his porch.

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  Serafina's Stories

  Rudolfo Anaya

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  This innovative novel combines Spanish folktales with Native American legends to create a captivating Southwestern version of The Arabian Nights. Like Scheherezade, who ensured her survival by telling her royal husband stories, the title character in Rudolfo Anaya’s creative retelling of The Arabian Nights must entertain the recently widowed governor with legends of Nueva Mexicana, or she and her fellow captives will die. With fresh snow covering the high peaks of Sangre de Cristo, a group of native dissidents prepare for revolt. In seventeenth-century Santa Fe, insurrection against a colony of the king of Spain is punishable by death. A Spaniard loyal to the governor names twelve conspirators. One of them is a young woman. Raised in a mission church, fifteen-year-old Serafina speaks excellent Spanish and knows many of her country’s traditional folktales. She and the governor strike a bargain: Each evening, she will tell him a cuento. If he likes it, he will release one prisoner the following day. The twelve tales recounted here mirror the struggle of a divided country. They include the social and political symbolism behind “Beauty and the Beast” and retell “Cinderella” as “Miranda’s Gift.” Interspersed with these timeless cuentos is the story of Serafina herself, and that of a people battling to preserve a vanishing way of life under the long shadow of the Inquisition.

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  Katherine Mansfield - The Short...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers.  Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say.  This volume is dedicated to one such recognised master of the short story, namely, Katherine Mansfield whose innovative stream of consciousness and symbolic narrative style profoundly influenced Virginia Woolf. 
  She was born on 14th October, 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five.  A gifted celloist, who at one point considered taking it up professionally her first attempts at writing were published in school magazines. 
  At 19 Katherine left for Great Britain and, on arriving, quickly joined the social circles of modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence who became a close friend. 
  She travelled to Europe before returning to New Zealand in 1906.  Katherine then began to write the short stories that she would later become famous for.  Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly dispensing with description and the introduction of characters. 
  By 1908 she had returned to London and to a rather more bohemian lifestyle. A passionate affair resulted in her becoming pregnant but instead of her lover she married an older man who she left the same evening with the marriage unconsummated.  She was then to miscarry and be cut out of her mothers’ will (allegedly because of her lesbianism). 
  In 1911 she began a relationship with John Middleton Murry, a magazine editor, and although it was volatile it enabled her to write some of her best stories. 
  Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, and alienation which was reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Her defining themes of New Zealand, childhood, adulthood, social class, class conflict, innocence, and experience often focused on trivial events and subtle changes in human behaviour. 
  During the First World War Mansfield contracted extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the tender age of 34 on 9th January, 1923 in Fontainebleau, France. 
  Her stories provide a legacy far beyond her years but leave us wondering what she could have been capable of had she lived longer. 
  This volume comes to you from Miniature Masterpieces, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single authors, themes, and many compilations.

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  The Friend - A Short Story

  Mary Jane Clark

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  After a woman accepts a new friend request on social media and gains a stalker in this thriller short story from a New York Times bestselling author. 
   
  Like a billion people on earth, aspiring actress Piper Donovan is a fervent Facebook follower. But what she doesn’t know is that a “friend” is following her. Possibly . . . stalking. A fan who starts by using the same beauty salon eventually comes closer—much closer—in this chilling short story. 
   
  Praise for Mary Jane Clark: 
   
  “Clark has perfected the suspense novel.” —Booklist 
   
  “One of the most talented story tellers around.” —Associated Press 
   
  “Her characters are the sorts with whom many readers identify.” —USA Today

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  The Clock

  W. F. Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres.Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories. "The Clock" is an atmospheric tale of the supernatural where a young woman finds herself alone in an empty house, searching for a missing clock. When she finds it she realises that something is wrong.... terribly wrong... and that there must be someone or something else in the house... but what?

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  Spanking Naughty Girls 5 - James...

  Peter Michaels

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  Olivia Taylor’s father has died but she hasn’t been able to cry. They fell out over Olivia’s abusive husband and she never got the chance to apologise to her father. James helps her to forgive herself with regular spankings until she cries. Olivia goes on to marry an older man but she insists that James teaches him how she likes to be spanked. 
  Sky Rutherford also needs some spanking training with her girlfriend Naomi. James discovers that Naomi used to be called Norman but that doesn’t stop him from spanking both of them and then teaching Naomi how Sky should be spanked.

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