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Twisted Tales from the Desert - an anthology of short stories with twisted views and endings. In this collection you will find humor, murder, a love story involving a ghost, an inhabited ghost town, a Fairy Godmother tale unlike anything you would expect, and more. This book contains adult content and is not recommended for readers under the age of 18.
A short story collection Bryan being the tv loving ghost who later haunts the home of his killer this tell his story. Also in book other new stories from series.Mostra libro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In the heartlands of England, in its gritty and grimy industrial landscape, literary talent abounds. Experiences learnt and observed here have found their way into many of the finest literary works this country has produced. Genius has many names. 1 - The Top 10 - English Authors of the West Midlands - An Introduction 2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 4 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 5 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 6 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik 7 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood 8 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton 9 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb 10 - The Dust of Death by Fred M White 11 - Alexander the Ratcatcher by Richard Garnett 12 - Her Murderer by Mary CholmondeleyMostra libro
Inside every body lies a story. In every scar, a memory. And in every silence, a possibility for healing. The Surgeon’s Hands is not a medical memoir—it’s a meditation on presence, precision, and what it truly means to witness someone. Through ten quietly luminous chapters, Maurizio—a gifted and intuitive surgeon—guides us through consultations that become rituals, procedures that begin with reverence, and encounters where touch transcends technique. This is not a tale of transformation by scalpel alone. It is a short novel about the sacred in every pause, and the voice beneath every wound. For surgeons, it is a mirror. For patients, a refuge. For readers, an unfolding. Come closer. You are already enough. © Brilliant Woman Studios 2025Mostra libro
Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. Will Sherlock reveal Hosmer's true identity?Mostra libro
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was born on 14th February 1855 in what is now Dnipro in the Ukraine, but then part of the Russian Empire. After attending secondary school he studied at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute. Wars between and on behalf of Empires were a regular feature of the decades then. Garshin volunteered to serve in the Russian army at the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877. He began as a private in the Balkans campaign and was wounded in action. By the end of the war, in 1878, he had been promoted to officer rank. By now Garshin, having previously published some articles and reviews in newspapers, wished to devote himself to a literary career. The decision made he resigned his army commission. His time as a soldier provided rich experiences for his early stories. His first ‘Four Days’ was related as the interior monologue of a wounded soldier left for dead on the battlefield for four days, face to face with the corpse of a Turkish soldier he had killed, gained him early admiration as an author of note. He wrote perhaps only 20 stories, but their influence was immense, although in these more modern times he is barely remembered and lives in the more prolific shadows of others. His characters are superbly worked into stories that come alive in the intensity and reality of his prose. Garshin’s most well-known story is ‘The Red Flower’, also known as ‘Scarlet Blossom’ and is easily amongst the first rank of stories dealing with mental health issues. Despite early literary success, he himself experienced periodical bouts of mental illness. In one such bout Garshin attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself down the stone stairs leading into his apartment building. Although not immediately fatal, Vsevolod Garshin died as a result of his injuries in a St Petersburg hospital on 5th April 1888. He was 33.Mostra libro
For twenty frickin' years Ernigan has been searching for the chosen one who will save the world, and honestly he's about had it. Will "chosen one" number 83 finally be the one that says yes?Mostra libro
