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  10 Short Stories Volume 3

  Martin Lundqvist

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  This anthology contains ten quirky and mostly humorous short stories. It contains the following stories:Jared Pond and the Temper Complication.(Jared must use his talents for gambling and philandering to post bail for an ill-tempered Australian tennis player.)Jared Pond's First Mission.(Jared is hired by RAKI to stop a female Russian agent from posting pictures of her and the Australian Prime Minister)Jared Pond and the Yakuza Connection.(Jared must meet up with a Japanese agent to stop the Yakuza from murdering Japanese Emperor)The Soccer Date (Geoffrey is asked out by the prettiest female soccer player in the competition. But does she have other plans for Geoff?The Pursuit of Dangerous Dave's Treasure. (The protagonist arrives at Dangerous Dave's Farm and finds out that he is not the only one looking for Dave's Treasure)Jared Pond and the Swedish Fish Factory. (Jared travels to Sweden to stop a group of Norse religion zealots from smuggling drugs to Australia.)The Disgruntled Soccer Terrorist. (A bored triple zero operator decides to stop a terrorist who plans to bomb Sydney because of Referee Lundgren's shoddy refereeing calls)Jared Pond and the Quirky Malaysian Agent (Jared meets up with a time-travelling agent and accidentally blows up the Malaysian consulate(..Kingsley's Quest in India. (Lord Kingsley is driven insane his opium addiction and falls in love with an imaginary woman)Jared Pond and the Tamil Guru. (Jared Pond travels to Sri Lanka to secure a shipment of premium tea for Prime Minister Scurry Morrissette)

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  This Is Salvaged - Stories

  Vauhini Vara

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  Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in FictionPushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible's specifications. In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.

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  Justine Joe and the Zen Garbageman

  Matthew Licht

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  'From the East Village to West Hollywood, from avant-garde poetry to pre-internet pornography, these stories – touching, scabrous, brutal – tell it like it is. Matthew Licht's effortlessly inventive language, dark and tender, sexually charged, free-wheeling, whimsical, regretful, rummages through the cultural detritus of our crazy mythos, and comes up sweet and headily evocative as roses.' —Charles Lambert, author of Any Human Face and The View from the Tower
  Justine's a famous poet. Joe's a self-styled Private Investigator without a clue. The Garbageman has cleaned his mind through immersion in filth. What he has to offer his clients, and even his enemies, is serenity. Three characters in search of a reader: you.
  'Nobody can push an envelope harder or further than Matthew Licht, though he's not all shock value. There's also intelligence, wit and surprising craft here.' —Dian Hanson, author of Naked as a Jaybird
  'Matthew Licht is an original and a rarity. His writing is smart, warm, engaging but also contains a healthy dose of New York "Fuck you!".' —Geoff Nicholson, author of Bedlam Burning
  'His goal is to disturb rather than enlighten, to impale human folly and absurdity, to unpeel the intellectual bankruptcy of our times.' —John Thackray

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  The Upper Berth - A sailor...

  F Marion Crawford

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  Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’.  
   
  Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome.  
   
  In 1879 he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881 he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University. 
   
  His family became increasingly concerned about his employment prospects.  After an attempt at a singing career as a baritone was ruled out, he was encouraged to write.  
   
  In December 1882 his first novel, ‘Mr Isaacs’, was published and was an immediate hit as was his second novel ‘Dr Claudius’ in 1883.  
   
  In October 1884 he married Elizabeth Berdan and encouraged by his excellent start to a literary career they returned to Sant Agnello, Italy to make a permanent home, buying the Villa Renzi that then became Villa Crawford.  
   
  In the late 1890s, Crawford began work on his historical works which would later include ‘Corleone’, in 1897, the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature.  
   
  Crawford is also exceedingly popular and anthologized as a short story writer of bizarre and creepy tales.   
   
  In 1908 came his classic ‘The Screaming Skull’. Without doubt its unsettling nature is heightened as the reader/listener is drawn into to the story by its narrator.  Everything is explained and plausible until, of course, it isn’t. 
   
  Francis Marion Crawford died at Sorrento on Good Friday 1909 at Villa Crawford of a heart attack.  
   
  In this classic supernatural story by F Marion Crawford a man takes a room on a liner and discovers that its previous occupants have all committed suicide.  When his room mate on the Upper Berth also disappears the evidence points to some unearthly sequence of happenings.

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  Tobermory

  Saki Saki

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  When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. Hector Hugh Munro at his most masterful!

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  Before Adam

  Jack London

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  Written in 1906, Before Adam is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventure novel, this one revolves around the dreams of a young boy, dreams that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth living in prehistoric times. "These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the sea and achieve our first adventure on land."

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