Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

• 

  The Baron of Coyote River

  L. Ron Hubbard

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Lance Gordon's running out of time. He's killed the man who murdered his father, and now he has a price on his head. Lance wants to live in peace, but he'll have to go through hell to get there. He heads for the one place no lawman will go — into the territory ruled by the feared king of the cattle rustlers. Taking on the Baron is his last chance — as Lance vows to redeem himself... or die trying.

  Mostra libro

• 

  On Gods and Demons - A Thousand...

  Tao Wong

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  What Do Gods & Demons Have in Common?  
  Perhaps nothing, perhaps a lot. A glimpse into a world where an immortal and a demon partake in meal while plotting moves that will shake the middle kingdom and share gossip of other, more contentious issues.  
  This is a 3,000 word short story set in the A Thousand Li universe featuring as yet to be seen characters in the universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Where We Go When All We Were Is...

  Sequoia Nagamatsu

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  "You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. "The Return to Monsterland" opens Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, a collection of twelve fabulist and genre-bending stories inspired by Japanese folklore, historical events, and pop culture. In "Rokurokubi," a man who has the demonic ability to stretch his neck to incredible lengths tries to save a marriage built on secrets. The recently dead find their footing in "The Inn of the Dead's Orientation for Being a Japanese Ghost." In "Girl Zero," a couple navigates the complexities of reviving their deceased daughter via the help of a shapeshifter. And, in the title story, a woman instigates a months-long dancing frenzy in a Tokyo where people don't die but are simply reborn without their memories. Every story in the collection turns to the fantastic, the mysticism of the past, and the absurdities of the future to illuminate the spaces we occupy when we are at our most vulnerable."

  Mostra libro

• 

  A Legend - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

  Mostra libro

• 

  The World's Shortest Stories of...

  Steve Moss, John Daniel

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Billboard magazine had this to say about The World’s Shortest Stories Vol. 1, “What is most impressive in this collection of great stories is the sheer variety. Let’s hope a second volume of these tiny gems will not be long in coming!”Well, here it is!Love and death, and all of the horror in between. A second helping of the most amazing short stories ever written—each one just 55 words long! Imagine O. Henry's tales if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. Includes stories from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, Barnaby Conrad, Neil Steinberg, Herbert Gold, Norman Lear, Larry Niven and more…

  Mostra libro

• 

  The Mystery of Still Valley

  T.J. Arthur

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Have you ever just by happenstance found yourself in a place or a town that made you feel right at home. You fell in love with the people, the restaurants, and the whole vibe; and thought to yourself, “someday I’m going to move here”. Then one day that time comes, and you venture out to find it again, and maybe you even start making plans in your own mind to move to that little town. However you find that suddenly you can’t find it, where you left it? 
  This is a story of a man wrestling with a moral dilemma within his chosen profession after some chilling details in his latest contract weren’t disclosed upfront. To clear his mind, and to gather his thoughts, he takes a long ride on his motorcycle… a ride that leads him into a new lease on life, giving opportunity to a complete do-over, but first he’ll have to face this chilling unpleasant and unfinished business. He finds himself helping a beautiful young mother and her four-year-old son escape the crosshairs of a drug lords dynasty and a black-opps plan to eliminate her and her son, he takes advantage of the deadly circumstances to disappear from his old life. Feeling that he is finally in the clear, he heads back to new hopes and new plans for a new life. The question is, will he find them waiting for him where he left them?

  Mostra libro