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  Eternity Can Wait

  Martin Lundqvist

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  A flash fiction story about Mark Silver, who is one the way to the maternity ward, when a landslide pushes his car off a cliff into a lake. Being close to dying, Mark meets with an ancient being who gives him a new lease on life.

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  Hush!

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) deprecated turning a person into slave first, but later began to make higher demands to his characters and to blame not only their environment, but also themselves for losing their dignity. Chekhov used actively bright details and professional slang to create necessary atmosphere. In "Hush!" we meet a journalist who comes home late in the evening and needs to do some work, therefore he demands not to be disturbed. His family regards the time when he works sacred and tries to do everything to make it comfortable for him. As his nature and temper are revealed to us, we get to know what he thinks of himself and what he is like at work, his dreams and who or what is to blame that he is unhappy.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  A Saga of the Seas - From their...

  Kenneth Grahame

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  Kenneth Grahame was born on 8th March 1859 in Edinburgh. 
  At age 5 his mother succumbed to puerperal fever.  His father, who had a drinking problem, now sent his 4 children to live with their grandmother at her large house in Cookham, Berkshire. Here the children lived in large open grounds next to the river.  These early experiences would in later years, be retold in his writing through a myriad of characters. 
  Grahame loved being a pupil at St Edward's School, Oxford and wanted to enroll at the university there but his guardian demurred on account of the cost. 
  Instead, a banking career was chosen for him, starting in 1879 at the Bank of England, where he rose steadily to the rank of its Secretary until retiring, with a pension, in 1908 due to ill health. 
  Alongside his commercial career Grahame had written and published various stories and essays in several periodicals. Some were anthologized as ‘Pagan Papers’ in 1893, and two years later ‘The Golden Age’ and later still ‘Dream Days’ and its masterpiece ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ became part of many home libraries.  His ability to view life through the lens of a young and curious child was superb, enabling the reader to easily identify with the character.   
  Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899 and they had one child; Alastair, born semi-blind and plagued by health problems.  In a heart-rending tragedy he would later take his own life whilst attending Oxford University in 1920.   
  In 1908 Grahame reworked many of the bedtime stories he had fashioned for his son into the enduring favourite; ‘The Wind in the Willows’, describing the heart-warming adventures of Mr Toad and his friends.   
  Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on 6th July 1932.

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  The Spoils to the Victor - From...

  J S Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher was born on the 7th February 1863 in Halifax, West Yorkshire.  At 8 months of age his clergyman father died and thereafter he was brought up by his grandmother on a farm near Pontefract. 
  After an education at Silcoates school in Wakefield he studied law for a short time and then, aged 20, entered journalism as a sub-editor in London before returning to Yorkshire to work for various other papers. 
  His first published book, in 1879, was poetry.  Thus began a very prolific career as a writer but it was not until 1914 that Fletcher wrote the first of over a hundred detective novels.  Across his career he wrote in excess of 230 books across poetry, fiction, non-fiction as well as the many short stories for the periodicals of the day. 
  In 1927 he married the Irish writer Rosamund Langbridge with whom he had a son. 
  J S Fletcher died in Surrey on the 30th of January 1935.  He was 71.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  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. 
   
  Invariably Jerome is most often remembered for his light-hearted and humourous works such as ‘Three Men in a Boat’.  Here we have a number of his beautifully lyrical short stories and some from his forgotten, and rather darker side. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Jerome K Jerome - An Introduction  
  02 - Told After Supper - The Doctor's Story by Jerome  K Jerome 
  03 - The Curate's Story - My Uncle's Story - My Own Story by Jerome K Jerome 
  04 - Told After Supper - The Wisdom Of Uncle Podger by Jerome K Jerome 
  05 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 
  06 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 
  07 - The Man Who Went Wrong by Jerome K Jerome 
  08 - The Cost of Kindness by Jerome K Jerome 
  09 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 
  10 - The Minor Poets Story by Jerome J Jerome 
  11 - The Lesson by Jerome K Jerome

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  Stories for Vlad: Volume 2 -...

  Geo Mihalache

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  Do you want to enjoy the silence in the car and at home? Well, try the stories in the series "Stories for Vlad" 
  In this volume: 
  Pic and Miron on the 'great adventure' - the tomcats go to the forest and return hungry and scared at home after a series of adventures; 
  Tarzanica and the Walnut Tree - the puppy helps a small walnut tree to get out from under a pile of twigs; 
  The Walnut Tree and the Beetle - the disappointment of the walnut tree that loses its leaves for the first time; 
  The Beetle and Winter - the dream of a small green beetle; 
  Pic Locked in the Cellar - the adventure of the curious cat who remains locked in the cellar; 
  Pic, Miron and the New Kitten - in the grandparents' house there is a new kitten that Pic treats at first as a competitor. 
  I invite you to find other stories in the series. 
  Love, 
  Geo

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