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  The Trouble with Happiness - And...

  Tove Ditlevsen

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  The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in EnglishA newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly understanding what that might mean.Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark’s most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on re-publication in English, lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.

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  Pirates' Gold

  H. Bedford-Jones

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  George Roberts of Virginia is a captain without a ship. But when he meets his charismatic friend Ned Low, and they share a glass or two, he realizes the next day that he’s signed on as first mate for a voyage to retrieve a fortune in gold.  
  Writing in a variety of genres during the golden age of the pulps, and heavily influenced by Alexandre Dumas, Henry James O’Brian Bedford-Jones was enormously prolific - writing nearly 200 novels, 400 novelettes, and 800 short stories.  
  This story is a standout for several reasons. The plucky woman on board is anything but a damsel in distress. Themes of redemption and honor feature significantly. But rest assured, there’s plenty of action – it is a pirate story, after all!

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  Stephen Crane - A Short Story...

  Stephen Crane

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  Stephen Crane was born 1st November, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey and was the eighth surviving child out of fourteen.  Incredibly he began writing at the age of four and was published several times by the age of sixteen.   
   
  Crane only began a full-time education when he was nine but quickly mastered the grades needed to catch up and move forward. Although educated at Lafayette and Syracuse he had little interest in completing university and was keener to move on to a career, declaring college to be ‘a waste of time’.  By twenty he was a reporter and two years later had published his debut novel ‘Maggie: A Girl of the Streets’.  In literary circles this was hailed as the first work of American literary Naturalism.  
   
  Two years later, in 1895, he was the subject of worldwide acclaim for his Civil War novel, written without the benefit of any actual war experiences, ‘The Red Badge of Courage’.  It was indeed a masterpiece and his finest hour.  A year later life began its downwards descent when he became embroiled in a scandal which was to doom his career.  In attempting to help a suspected prostitute being falsely charged by a policeman he became the target of the authorities. 
   
  Later the same year en-route to Cuba as a War Correspondent he met the hotel madam Cora Taylor in Jacksonville, Florida.  This was to become the defining relationship of his life.  Continuing his journey, somewhere between Florida and Cuba his ship sank, and he was cast adrift for several days.  Rescued, he returned to cover conflicts wherever they were situated, some as far away as Greece.  For a time he lived in England with Cora, usually beyond their means, befriending fellow writers such as H G Wells and Joseph Conrad.    
   
  His poems, predominantly short and abstract, display another facet of his talent which questions, advises and presents his audience with much to contemplate.  Some are difficult to engage with but with the effort comes the reward. 
    
  In declining health and beset by money problems, Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis, aged a mere 28 on 5th June 5, 1900, at Badenweiler, Germany. He is buried in New Jersey. 
  1 - Stephen Crane - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
  3 - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane 
  4 - The Pace of Youth by Stephen Crane 
  5 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 
  6 - The Veteran by Stephen Crane

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  Outcasts - An Anthology

  Members Of The Ohio Writers...

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  Award Winner at the 2023 Hear Now Palooza, sponsored by National Audio Theater Festivals. Wizards. Prisoners. Preachers. And robots! They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are Outcasts—isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being outcast is a real part of the human experience. Have you ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If so, then the characters in these 18 short stories will move you--sometimes by their depravity, sometimes by their sorrow...and sometimes by their joy. Written by members of The Ohio Writers' Association, with audio book production by members of the Ohio Audiobook Narrators The Bear by Devon Ortega, narrated by Gretchen LaBuhn Tough Luck by Emily E. Jones, narrated by Angus Freathy Little Jimmy by Carnegie Euclid, narrated by Gretchen LaBuhn Man in the Box by Diane Callahan, narrated by Doug McDonald Treetown by David M. Simon, narrated by GaryLeo Smith The Suitor by Stella Ling, narrated by Beth Kesler The New Chastisement by Brian Luke, narrated by Gary Leo Smith Those Who Slip Through by Curtis A. Deeter, narrated by Gary LeoSmith Sensible Attire by D. Wayne Moore, narrated by Beth Kesler Good Friday by Krista Hilton, narrated by Angus Freathy The Fog of Fate by Brian R. Johnson & Elora Lyons, narrated by Angus Freathy Best If Used By by Mary McFarland, narrated by Becky White Wake Up, O Sleeper by Brad Pauquette, narrated by Gary Leo Smith Number 385712 by George Pallas, narrated by Doug McDonald Axman by Steven Kenneth Smith, narrated by Gary Leo Smith Parquet to the Past by Mike Sieminski, narrated by Angus Freathy A Tummy Rub for Gaffney by Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek, narrated by Doug McDonald

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  Garden of Eden Anthology

  Allen Taylor, Adam Mac, JD...

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  15 Authors give their interpretation of the Garden of Eden, addressing the speculative question, "Who was with Adam and Eve in the garden?" Contains flash fiction stories, short stories, and poetry with a diverse range of characters that includeDust motesGnomesWater RatsRoachesGhostsAngelsVirtual charactersand more 
  You'll be surprised, shocked, frightened, and amused. Every page is riddled with great prose from great writers. These authors take speculative fiction into a whole new arena with weird characters and strange situations.  
  Story titles include: In The Beginning We Did Have Someone On The GroundGossip in the GardMoteRenovationA Ghost and a ThoughtWe Who BleedOne Bit OffWater RatsAgent of GoodThe Genesis of the IncorporeumThe Gardeners of EdenThe Roots of All EvilSurveyBreachBefore Dawn Can Wake Us

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  Spanking the Women's Group -...

  Paul Amann

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  Jack buys a house in the Cornwall village of Little Trumpington after a difficult divorce. At fifty-eight, he has no children and is happy on his own writing his romantic Novels for Amazon. The ladies from the village Women’s group invite Jack to join their card game on a Friday because the usual player had moved away from the village and he is excited to find that the winning partners in the game spank the losers. Jack happily spanks all the women in the group over the next few weeks and finds that they are knocking at his door asking for more than just a spanking.

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