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  A Mind to Silence and other...

  Anwuli Onjogwu

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  A woman who carries her fate and that of her community in her hair is beguiled by the deceptive designs of Europeans out to colonise her most prized possession. A man finds happiness in the reincarnation of a lost love. A young woman risks her life for freedom through the cultural practice of a human loan scheme.
  Tales of sacrifice, love, freedom, self-discovery and loss fill the pages of this larger-than-life tapestry of stories from across Africa and its diaspora. Forged in a diversity of tempers and forms, these stories range from the epistolary to the experimental, from mysteries, noirs and political thrillers to speculative fiction and futurism, and much more. In prose that moves from visual and lyrical to gritty and visceral, these writers explore fate, memory, the fragility of love and the duplicitous nature of human interactions

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  The Ghost in the Garden Room

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  Elizabeth Stevenson was born in Chelsea in London on 29th September 1810.  
   
  Both parents embedded their strong Unitarian beliefs into Elizabeth who rebelliously was often reluctant to display these religious convictions.  
   
  The early death of Elizabeth’s mother saw her sent away to be brought up by her maternal aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire.  
   
  Her father now remarried but Elizabeth spent most of her childhood in Cheshire away from her father and his new family but was supportive towards her half-siblings.  
   
  Elizabeth’s aunt encouraged her education and particularly to read and express herself through writing.   
   
  In 1828, her brother John, who worked in the merchant navy, disappeared on a journey to India. This disastrous loss depressed her father, and she went to his household to nurse him for the next year before he died.  
   
  In 1832, she fell in love with William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister like her father, and married him.  They settled in Manchester. This booming industrial city had a great impact on Elizabeth who felt the need to speak up for poor workers and their exploitation by large industrial companies. A collection of poems and short stories, ‘Sketches among the Poor’ appeared in 1837, co-authored by her husband.  Her first major work, under a pseudonym, was ‘Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life’ published in 1848. 
   
  During her career she worked continually with Charles Dickens and published much in his various magazines. With him she published ‘Lizzie Leigh’ in 1850 which dealt with the taboo subject of prostitution.  She was an excellent writer and impressed her many Victorian literary peers. Much of her writing reflects her work as a social critic highlighting the exploitation of the working class and the situation of women in society.  
   
  On 12th November 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell died in Holybourne, Hampshire, after suffering from a heart attack a month earlier.

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  What the Moon Brings

  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. "What the Moon Brings" is a short story written in 1922 and is shorter than Lovecraft’s other stories. The story is told in the first person, but the narrator is never named. The protagonist wanders through his garden one night and sees strange and bizarre things in the moonlight. He notices that the garden has no end and the walls are gone, there are no more trees and plants. The dead faces are chasing him further and further. Will main character cope with such a situation? Is he crazy? What is happening to him and his place? Read this exciting book to get the answers.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Saki...

  Saki Saki

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  The Top Ten -  Saki - An Introduction 
   
  The name H H Munro is obscured beneath the literary mantle of his nom de plume; Saki.  A writer of his times, the stories perfectly portray society’s whims and tastes in a delicate yet at times, barbed humour.  A divine wit who conjured words into quite extraordinary works. 
   
  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. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Saki - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lumber Room by Saki 
  3 - Tobermory by Saki 
  4 - The Open Window by Saki 
  5 - The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki  
  6 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki 
  7 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki 
  8 - The Unrest Cure by Saki 
  9 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 
  10 - Sredni Vashtar by Saki 
  11 - The Interlopers by Saki

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  Breathing In Rio

  Alfred C. Martino

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  Rio, a place of beauty, excitement, and wonder. A place where you are free to dance until your feet ache and sing until you can no more. In this short story, a woman and her mother experience this and more during their visit to Brazil's most famous city. 
  Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over the End Line, and the stage play Waiting for a Friend. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ, and graduated from Millburn High School. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City. 
  ©2017 Alfred C. Martino (P)2017 Alfred C. Martino

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  Spring Awakening

  Frank Wedekind

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  London, 1944.  Seemingly far from the war in Europe, two schoolboys find they have much more pressing concerns than the fighting on the front-line. Melchior rekindles a passionate love affair with an old flame, but beneath his confident, roguish exterior lies a young boy who finds himself out of his depth.  What starts as a romantic chapter in their young lives soon takes a violent turn with disastrous consequences that threaten to tear them apart. For Mortiz however, girls are the last thing he wants to think about.  But he cant ignore his natural desires for much longer, especially with the new crowd Melchior introduces him to.  And with the expectations of a demanding father on top of the ever-increasing piles of homework, Moritz finds himself struggling to cope with the amounting pressure, and soon becomes to much to bare… Springs Awakening is a story of youth and innocence, and the awakening we all experience one day.  It explores the power of friendship and lust, and the role of society in dealing with these childhood traumas.

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