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  The Pope's Mule

  Alphonse Daudet

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  Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of France's finest writers of short stories."The Pope's Mule" is the amusing story of an animal which waited patiently for seven years to repay a man who mistreated her.

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  Bodies in Motion - Stories

  Mary Anne Mohanraj

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  Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate worlds, America and Sri Lanka -- their lives and ties shaped, strengthened, devastated, and altered by the emigrant-immigrant ebb and flow. Through stunning, effervescent prose, intimate moments are beautifully distilled, revealing the tug-of-war between generations and gender in stories sensual and honest, chronicling love, ambition, and the spiritual and sexual quests of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons.

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  Turtle Doves (short story)...

  Stuart MacBride

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  Second story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  When a double suicide arrives at the city morgue, Sandra thinks it’s a Christmas like any other. But she’s about to get a very nasty shock – make that two very nasty shocks… 
  Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, weaves a tale of mystery and thrillers, where humour is as black as the night. The best of his stories, Turtle Doves is a hard-boiled detective fiction that will keep you on the edge of your seat. 
  For fans of Ian Rankin (Standing in Another Man's Grave), Mark Billingham (Cry Baby), and Michael Connelly (The Law of Innocence).

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  The Happy Prince and Other Tales

  Oscar Wilde

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  Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. These stories are generally sad, with a moralistic message. The collection includes: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. (Summary written by Joy Chan)

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  The Locket

  Kate Chopin

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  In “The Locket”, a confederate soldier declines his fellow soldiers’ request to reveal the contents of the locket around his neck. The locket, which holds pictures of his fiancée’s parents and the date of their wedding is found on the battlefield after a battle. Later, the soldier’s fiancée visits the battlefield with the soldier’s father, both shaken with grief. The soldier’s father asks his son’s fiancée to remove her veil, as it contrasts too sharply with the beautiful day and adds that on such a day miracles seem ready to happen. Returning home, something extraordinary happens to make her believe he may be right.

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  The Dunwich Horror

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purpose of destroying the world and delivering it to ancient gods to rule, and only an aged university librarian can stop them. The Dunwich Horror was first published in 1929 in Weird Tales.

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