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  How to Pronounce Knife - Stories

  Souvankham Thammavongsa

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  Named one of The New York Times' "7 New Books to Watch Out for in April", this revelatory debut story collection from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." 
  In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Thammavongsa is a master at homing in on moments like this—moments of exposure, dislocation, and messy feeling that push us right up against the limits of language. 
  The stories that make up How to Pronounce Knife focus on characters struggling to build lives in unfamiliar territory, or shuttling between idioms, cultures, and values. A failed boxer discovers what it truly means to be a champion when he starts painting nails at his sister's salon. A young woman tries to discern the invisible but immutable social hierarchies at a chicken processing plant. A mother coaches her daughter in the challenging art of worm harvesting. 
  In a taut, visceral prose style that establishes her as one of the most striking and assured voices of her generation, Thammavongsa interrogates what it means to make a living, to work, and to create meaning.

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  Short Stories by Katherine...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  A Collection of Katherine Mansfield's best loved Short Stories including "Miss Brill", "The Garden Party", "The Singing Lesson" and "Bank Holiday".

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  The Thorn in the Flesh

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914.  The story can be read in tandem with 'The Prussian Officer' which was written in the same year and has a similar setting and theme. In this story, the young soldier fights against his own shortcomings as a soldier and as a man. He flees the scene of his crime into the arms of his lover where he finds solace and comfort but he cannot escape the inevitable military machine that Lawrence hated.

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  Take Out & Other Stories: A...

  Robert Gannon

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  Take Out & Other Stories: A Collection of Weird Fiction explores what happens to the human mind when one thing enters a life that cannot be explained a way with logic or reason. From a young boy's obsession with horror stories to a kitchen with a mind of its own, these five stories put the weird back in weird fiction.

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  Night Terrors Vol 22 - Short...

  Jack Neel Waddell, Nina...

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  Terror lurks just out of sight. But it won’t stay hidden for long… 
  A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient, that keeps customers coming back for more… 
  Scare Street is proud to present a breathtaking new collection of diabolical tales. Every page unleashes a new terror, torn straight from the darkest shadows of the night. 
  You’ve seen them before, just out of the corner of your eye. Dark, slimy things, slithering through the shadows when you turn off the light. 
  And now you hear them, scraping on the door of your bedroom, as you pull the covers over your head. 
  And as their footsteps creak across the floor, you wonder… 
  Will this be the last sound you ever hear? 
  This volume features the following stories: 
  1. Soul Bottle by Jack Neel Waddell 
  2. Good Help is Hard to Find by Nina Wachsman 
  3. Snowblind by Clarence Carter 
  4. Jaws of Glass by Matthew R. Davis and Roger Davis 
  5. Aiyana’s Hearth by Craig Crawford 
  6. The Dashwood Donut Emporium is Now Hiring by Kat Sokol 
  7. Black Wolf's Sedan by P. D. Williams 
  8. Something in the Water by Margaret Eve 
  9. At the Cemetery Gates by D. C. Marcus 
  10. The Nobody Book by Adam Vine 
  11. Good Company by Madeline Jacobson 
  12. Haunting Memories by Justin Boote 
  13. Darling Daughter by Justin Moritz 
  14. The Doll by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito

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  Christmas Short Stories

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories...A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short stories about Christmas--A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story and Nobody's Story.

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