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  The Turn of the Screw

  Henry James

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  "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James is a gripping and eerie tale of psychological suspense. A young governess is hired to care for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora, at a remote English estate. As she settles into her duties, she begins to see apparitions of the previous governess and a sinister servant, believing they seek to harm the children. As paranoia and fear escalate, James masterfully blurs the lines between reality and imagination, plunging readers into a haunting exploration of innocence, evil, and the human psyche.

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  Horse in the Moon - From their...

  Luigi Pirandello

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  Luigi Pirandello was born on 28th June 1867 into an upper-class family in Agrigento, in Sicily. 
  In 1880, the family moved to Palermo and there he completed high school and thence to the University of Palermo, at that time the centre of what became the Fasci Siciliani movement.  Although not an active member he had close friendships with many of its leading ideologists.  Pirandello then completed his university studies in Rome and Bonn, receiving his Doctorate in March, 1891. 
  His time in Rome had provided him with the opportunity to visit its many theatres. "Oh the dramatic theatre! I will conquer it. I cannot enter into one without experiencing a strange sensation, an excitement of the blood through all my veins..." 
  1894 brought marriage, at his father's suggestion, to a shy, withdrawn girl: Mara Antonietta Portulano.  The marriage encouraged his studies and writings and, the following year, the first part of the ‘Dialoghi tra Il Gran Me e Il Piccolo Me’ was published. 
  In 1903 the flooding of the sulphur mines in which his father had invested the family capital and Antonietta's dowry, brought financial catastrophe.  She, on hearing the news, was mentally broken.  Pirandello would now work a full day and then watch over his troubled wife at night. Somehow he found time to write ‘The Late Mattia Pascal’.  It was an immediate and resounding success.  
  In 1909, Pirandello began his collaboration with the prestigious Corriere della Sera.  Whilst his fame as a writer was increasing his private life was poisoned by the suspicion and jealousy of Antonietta who now turned physically violent.  His plays were now being regularly performed but, within a decade, Antonietta had to be placed into an asylum from which she never left. 
  In 1921, in Rome his play, ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ debuted.  It was a failure.  However, when presented in Milan it was a great success, as it also was in London and New York. 
  In 1925, Pirandello, with Mussolini’s help, assumed the artistic direction and ownership of the Teatro d'Arte di Roma.  He now described himself both as ‘a Fascist because I am Italian’ and ‘I'm apolitical, I'm only a man in the world...’  However his later conflicts with fascist leaders meant he fell under close surveillance by the OVRA, the secret police. 
  In 1934 he won the Nobel Prize but asked that the medal be melted down for Italy’s occupation of Abyssinia Campaign to which he had given his support.  
  Pirandello's canon stretches across novels, short stories, poetry, essays and some 40 plays.  His tragic farces are often cited as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. 
  Luigi Pirandello died on the 10th December 1936 at his home at Via Bosio, Rome, Italy.  He was 69.

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  Only Soft for You

  Lily Maren

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  Description：
  One Long Island Iced Tea. One terrible idea. One very attractive traffic cop.
  Chloe Turner can barely recall the night she drunkenly ambushed an on-duty cop—hugging him, refusing to let go, and shouting her measurements to a crowd. She wakes to a viral video, a call from the Traffic Division, and the mortifying truth: the man she embarrassed herself in front of is the most handsome person she's ever met.
  Officer Ethan Cole is calm, principled, and far too easy to fluster. When her chaos causes a minor accident, Chloe shows up to apologize—with a statement, no dignity left, and a wild plan.
  What follows is a slow-burn chase through traffic stops, awkward fines, emergencies, and one unforgettable princess carry. He's steady. She's a mess. And he only softens for her.
  For lovers of enemies-to-lovers slow burns, chaotic heroines, and swoon-worthy men in uniform.

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  University City

  Neal Goldstein

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  When a bomb levels an entire block in a gentrifying Philadelphia neighborhood, killing dozens of people days before Christmas, all signs point to terrorism. But who did it? And why? Veteran Philadelphia Police Detective Frank Benson and Sergeant Ophelia Brown-Thurman are long on questions and short on answers. 
  Meanwhile, the high-profile racketeering trial of a crooked union official begins. It is a case in which Benson, despite his best efforts, is selected to serve on the jury—and which turns out to have disturbing links to the deadly bombing. 
  Benson and Brown-Thurman’s investigation leads them into the underground snake pit of right-wing extremists still raging over the outcome of the 2020 election, and eager to lash out. As they race to determine a motive and unmask the culprit, another, deadlier conspiracy brews—one that puts the new President-elect in the crosshairs. 
  In this third installment of the Frank Benson and Ophelia Brown-Thurman mystery series, author and Philly native Neal Goldstein weaves a riveting tale of malice and mayhem around real-life events. It’s a story about a divided America where heroic public servants will do whatever it takes to defend the city, and the nation, that they love.

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  The Friend - From their pens to...

  Leonid Andreyev

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  Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry. 
  He studied law in Moscow before working as a police-court reporter for a daily newspaper.  His literary efforts at this time were confined to poetry and those he did try to get published were all rejected.  
  In 1898 his first short story ‘Bargamot and Garaska’, published in the ‘Kurier’ newspaper caught the attention and friendship of Maxim Gorky.  Andreyev now discarded any other career path apart from that of author. 
  His first collection of short stories appeared in 1901 and sold over a quarter of a million copies.  He was a sensation. Using his interest in psychology and psychiatry gave him an almost unrivalled ability to delve into the human psyche and create astonishing characters. 
  During the first Russian revolution Andreyev was a staunch defender of democratic ideals and many of his stories reflected the heated mood of the times. With the 1905 Revolution’s failure his work became pessimistic and despairing. By the beginning of the following decade he began losing his audience to new literary movements such as the Futurists. 
  He published little after 1914 except political writings, instead working as the literary editor of the ‘Russian Will’ newspaper.  When the Bolsheviks took power he sensed catastrophe was coming and moved to Finland where he spent his last years in poverty distraught at the outcome of the Revolution. 
  Leonid Andreyev died of heart failure on 12th September 1919 at the age of 48 in Mustamäki, Finland. 
  His classic story ‘Lazarus’ brilliantly tells the story of Christ’s disciple, forced to wander the earth for all time is both chilling and heart-breaking in its Russian setting.

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  Let Him Expose You Honeyor Else!...

  J.C. Cummings

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  Warning: Explicit Content. An ENF Submissive Female Story of Intense Humiliation. "Husbands Back in Charge" Series. Lieutenant Brandon Lewis is in his glory. Three years after returning home from his deployment in Afghanistan, he has brought the twenty-nine surviving members of his platoon together for a catered lobster dinner at a swanky hotel function room. He is button-busting proud of every man seated before him. 
   
  But there is one man whose presence is really putting a lump in Brandon’s throat: Johnny Grey. During a mortar attack, this brave infantryman jumped in front of Brandon and took the shrapnel for him, likely saving his life. 
   
  But Johnny paid a heavy price for his heroism. His face is now so heavily scarred that, for the past three years, he has been unable to find a woman who wants him. So, unlike the rest of his platoon, he is attending the reunion without a wife or girlfriend to share in his glory. 
   
  Well, his fellow soldiers have come up with a way to help him. They explain to Brandon that, since Johnny did, in fact, save his life, it really would be the right thing to do to offer his gorgeous wife, Aubrey, to Johnny. That way, the poor man could have at least one woman to enjoy. 
   
  Brandon is shocked—and strangely turned on by the idea. After all, Aubrey is such a modest woman that she barely even offers herself to him, let alone another man. And since the men want this to happen right there in the hotel function room so that they can share in Johnny’s “glory” (and get off on beholding Aubrey’s luscious body themselves), Brandon would love the opportunity to see his wife naked for a change. 
   
  But that’s a moot point since Aubrey would never agree to such debasement. 
   
  Well, Brandon is shocked beyond belief when Aubrey reluctantly agrees to help Johnny. After all, if it weren’t for this brave young man, she could very well have ended up a widow!

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