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  REEna 5

  Ed Rosek

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  The year is 2046. Nikkolas Tensig is living a comfortable life. He has a great job at the Gen-Ham factory creating Droid-Pets. At the end of each day, he enjoys returning to his plush modern home, complete with two female android servants. But his idyllic existence is turned inside out as he begins experiencing alarming dreams and visions, while his newest android, REENA 5, begins to exhibit some highly strange behavior. What follows is surreal and terrifying, and will lead Nikk to question his own sanity and grip on reality, in this Sci-Fi Horror you won't soon forget. Presented in Radio Drama style with immersive modern sound effects to enhance listening enjoyment.35 minutesAge: teen to adult

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  Quantum Love: Parallel Hearts

  Ella Stories

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  A quantum physicist invents a device that lets him converse with alternate versions of himself in parallel universes. In a quest to find the best version of his life, he stumbles upon a reality in which he is deeply in love with his best friend, a friendship he always took for granted in his own world. Now, he must confront his newfound feelings and navigate the complexities of love and friendship, all while coming to terms with the life he truly wants.

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  Short Stories for Christmas

  Various Authors

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  An entertaining selection of short stories for the festive season, including 'The Gift of the Magi' by O' Henry and a full cast classic recording of 'The Christmas Carol' by Dickens.

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  The Leather Funnel - From their...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859.  His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing.  
  He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’, was published in Blackwood’s Magazine.  Despite several other stories and some articles in the British Medical Journal his medical studies took priority. 
  When these finished he was appointed as Doctor on the Greenland whaler ‘Hope of Peterhead’ in 1880 and then, after graduation, as ship’s surgeon on the SS Mayumba on its voyage to West Africa. 
  1882 saw a move to Plymouth and his own independent practice. With few patients he resumed writing and completed his first novel, ‘The Mystery of Cloomber’, although most of his output was short stories based on his experiences at sea.  
  He married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. However, two years later he met and fell in love with Jean Elizabeth Leckie, though they remained platonic out of respect for, and loyalty to, his wife. 
  His literary career suddenly burst into life in November 1886 with ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the first of the fabulously successful Sherlock Holmes stories.  
  With two children to support he now revisited his haphazard commercial arrangements and curtailed everything save for commissions from the Strand Magazine.  
  As a sportsman he was remarkably proficient. He was goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club and played ten first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club as well as captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in East Sussex.  
  In 1891 tired of writing Holmes stories, he began a series of historical novels and even went so far as to apparently kill off Holmes in a lethal brawl with his arch-nemesis Moriarty. 
  Despite heavy and sustained criticism he continued to write in support of the Boer War, a fact he thought contributed to his knighthood in 1902.  The following year to great relief and acclaim he brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead in his first outing for a decade. 
  Sadly, his wife Louisa died from TB in 1906 and, a year later, he at last married Jean.  
  During the War and for several years after family deaths had left him depressed. In a search for solace and answers he alighted upon spiritualism and, such was his interest, that he wrote several books on the subject. 
  On 7th July 1930 Conan Doyle was discovered in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in East Sussex, clutching his chest dying of a heart attack.  He was 71.

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  Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

  Bliss Carman

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  In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great attention to the original fragments. Summary by inflected.

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  Deceit and Other Possibilities -...

  Vanessa Hua

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  In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none. 
   
   
   
  From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a sex scandal to an obedient daughter turned Stanford pretender, from a Chinatown elder summoned to his village to a Korean American pastor with a secret agenda, the characters in the collection illustrate the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. In "What We Have Is What We Need," winner of the Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, a boy from Mexico reunites with his parents in San Francisco. When he suspects his mother has found love elsewhere, he fights to keep his family together. 
   
   
   
  With insight and wit, Hua writes about what wounds us and what we must survive. This all-new edition of Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable writer.

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