Publisher: Salt
Some of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether young or old, self-confident or ground-down, local or blow-in, all of them are reaching uneasy compromises with the world they inhabit and the landscape in which that life takes place.
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. War has ruined Nations and peoples. Revolution has followed in some. In the aftermath society slowly picks itself up, unaware that collapse is already beginning to ferment in its economic bastions. The authors of this decade are purposeful with their prose, describing and detailing with stories the brazen nature of this decade. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The Men - An Introduction 2 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 3 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald 4 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft 5 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 6 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker 7 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson 8 - Rats by M R James 9 - The Great Slave by Zane Grey 10 - The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan 11 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellShow book
TALES FROM AN IRONIC MIND TWO Come take a little journey, maybe just a bit out of your comfort zone, maybe dancing a bit on that line of sanity and madness. Maybe you are one of those people who see things a bit differently, from an angle not often noticed. Do you walk on that road not often traveled? Do you sometimes want to take just a little peak at that great abyss? Do you find life sometimes mystical and magical while others are complaining about the gray? Go ahead, try and guess where the story is going and how it is going to end. Maybe you too, have an ironic mind.Show book
‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914. The story can be read in tandem with 'The Prussian Officer' which was written in the same year and has a similar setting and theme. In this story, the young soldier fights against his own shortcomings as a soldier and as a man. He flees the scene of his crime into the arms of his lover where he finds solace and comfort but he cannot escape the inevitable military machine that Lawrence hated.Show book
Equality is one of the great and lauded aims of a just society. It is rarely achieved. The system is there to be exploited by those with too much money and too many resources. Or maybe just a grudge. Our classic authors including Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Morrison and others turn their pens to the nature of abuse. It may be gentle or laced with searing pain but always told with the sharpest of pens. 1 - Short Stories about Abuse - An Introduction 2 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe 3 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy 4 - A Harlem Tragedy by O Henry 5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell 7 - Gentle Breathing by Ivan Bunin 8 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson 9 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen 10 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 11 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 12 - Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt by Arthur MorrisonShow book
Discover the origins of the incredible friendship that defines Hunted… On a hot summer’s day in Boston, US Marine turned Homicide Detective Reid Halsey finds himself in the middle of a deadly shootout with a murder suspect. When Lucas Soul, a seemingly innocent victim, rises from the dead moments after a fatal gunshot wound to the head, Reid comes to the shocking realization that the world he believes in may very well be a carefully fabricated lie masking an unearthly reality.The Meeting is a short story set in AD Starrling's bestselling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen. Get this thrilling short story and continue the epic series today! Visit Shop AD Starrling to get digitally signed books and discounted bundles!Show book
SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree.I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.Show book
