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  Sunstroke and Other Stories

  Tessa Hadley

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  A Picador Paperback OriginalTessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships.A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close.In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.

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  Hot Potatoes

  Arnold Bennett

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  When local musical prodigy, Gilbert Swann, is selected to play the violoncello with the visiting London orchestra during the musical festival in the five towns, his mother is convinced that he will be the cornerstone of the entire event.When local dignitary Mrs. Clayton-Vernon invites Gilbert to dinner before the concert with her cousin, the famous conductor from London, she sees this as recognition of his musical genius. A sudden cold snap on the day, however, makes Mrs. Swann fearful that Gilbert's hands will get cold on the journey from Mrs. Clayton-Vernon's house to the concert.She resolves to deploy a remedy from her childhood, and sets off to Mrs. Clayton-Vernon's mansion with two steaming hot baked potatoes hidden in her muff, for Gilbert to warm his hands upon before the concert. It does not occur to Mrs. Swann initially that smuggling hot potatoes into Mrs. Clayton-Vernon's grand house may be considered a social faux-pas. Her efforts to conceal the potatoes and hand them over discretely to her son are deliciously farcical...and the adventure turns out rather differently than intended.

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  Because of Roses

  Richard May

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  An anthology of ten short, optimistic stories about men meeting other men and exploring relationships with each other, with a focus on racial, age, and background diversity.Chicken Man: a would-be actor encounters a six-foot tall rooster in Times Square, which leads to sort of an acting gig and romance, also of a sort.The Green Bench: a businessman hurrying to work passes an older male couple on a park bench every day, until one day one isn't there.Leprechaun in New York: a young man lusts after a redhead he sees in bars until he goes home with him and the redhead claims he's a leprechaun.Heart Stealer: based on a Choctaw myth of a creature in the woods who takes human hearts.From the Sea: a college friend invites a classmate home for the weekend to a house inhabited by his family and the ghost of a drowned Chinese fisherman.Ticket to Ride: bemused by a makeshift sign offering trips to the past for a nominal sum, a man hurrying by puts his money down. When he returns, his ticket is waiting.The Cowman and the Farmer Should Be Friends: a lonely dairy farmer resorts to OkCupid to find love.Picnic in Moscow: a man in Moscow escapes from a Gay bashing and is taken in by an older man his father wants him to marry.Régalos: a descendant of Cuban boat people returns to Cuba on a professional architectural tour. He's befriended by a mysterious man who turns out to have sinister connections.Because of Roses: grieving over a dead partner, an attorney accepts a transfer to the London office and begins house hunting in the Cotswolds.

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  The Other Gods

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author, writer who achieved fame after passing away. He is known for influential works of horror fiction.  "The Other Gods" is a short story that was written on August 14, 1921, published in November 1933 and it tells about Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet who learned in the lore of the “gods of the Earth”. One day he attempted to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla along with his young disciple Atal in order to look upon their faces. But when he got to the mountain he found that the “gods of the Earth” were not alone there. What will happen to Barzai the Wise? Will he be punished? Get answers by reading this amazing story.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Dagdrömmande i skobutiken

  Martin Lundqvist

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  En kort historia om en man som besöker en eccentrisk skobutik och får höra ägarens livshistoria och filosofi.

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  The Last Page - A Tale of Scryunne

  Richard Fierce

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  Not every story begins in light. 
  Perhaps there was nothing I could have done differently. The atrocities I committed, the lives that I scorched from existence, the power I wielded with so little regard. 
  Or maybe it was the love that I lost? The love that my priest father had snuffed like a candle whose flame has been violently blown out. 
  I have destroyed, killed, manipulated, betrayed, tortured, and I have laughed at it all. 
  Perhaps I lied. Perhaps every story does begin in light – a cruel and unforgiving one.

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