Publisher: Diwan
Characters in From Madid to Heaven unexpectedly find themselves in impossible circumstances. In fourteen short stories, set between Iberia and North Africa, they come nevertheless to face the strange possibility that when nothing is possible, everything may suddenly be possible.
A suspect suicide note. A dinghy washed up on the rocky Maine coast. An angry man determined to send his dead wife a message. When Ann Kinnear travels to an isolated island in Blue Hill Bay to convey that message, will she discover the private truth behind the public story of a death on the water? Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. —William Shakespeare, "Henry VIII" An Ann Kinnear Suspense Short from Matty Dalrymple, author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels and the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers.Show book
"Dream Life and Real Life" is a haunting short story about a little orphan girl in servitude to a cruel Boer family. One night, following a beating, she runs away and hides in a cave. But there she overhears three men plotting to rob and burn down the Boer's farm and kill the family. What should she do? Warn them, or let them burn to death? Olive Schreiner (March 24, 1855 - December 11, 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is remembered today for her 1883 novel, The Story of an African Farm, which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.Show book
There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories About - Women's Sexuality 02 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield 03 - The Giant Wisteria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 04 - The Storm by Kate ChopinShow book
A man ready to end his life. A dream that shows him another world. A revelation that changes everything. In this haunting and deeply spiritual story, a despairing narrator believes nothing in life matters—until a mysterious dream transports him to a world untouched by sin. What he witnesses there shatters his nihilism and awakens a painful, luminous understanding of love, innocence, and human possibility. His transformation is quiet but earthshaking. Praised as "one of Dostoevsky's most moving and philosophical works," this short masterpiece explores morality, suffering, and the fragile hope that even a ruined soul can be reborn. If you love introspective stories, spiritual questioning, and the emotional depth that defines Dostoevsky, this tale will stay with you forever. Open the pages—and witness a dream that reveals what it means to truly live.Show book
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 1 - Six of the Best - Mary Butts - An Introduction 2 - Mary Butts - An Introduction 3 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts 4 - The Dinner Party by Mary Butts 5 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts 6 - Brightness Falls by Mary Butts 7 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 8 - In Bayswater - Part 1 by Mary Butts 9 - In Bayswater - Part 2 by Mary ButtsShow book
Discover where it all started… Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia. Ten-year-old Lucas’s life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts. Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the tides of time. First Death is a short story set in AD Starrling's bestselling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen. Visit Shop AD Starrling to get digitally signed books and discounted bundles!Show book
