Publisher: Rose Rough
Kate's always working overtime, but tonight she's going to get a visit from building security. And soon she'll be bent over her desk while her new master teaches her a hard lesson in submission. Working overtime has never been so much rough fun!
"We have your wife and daughter," a man said over the phone to magician Max Starfire. Who sat alone in his dark dressing room in his theatre. "Max! why so serious?" said Blake Fire doing a Joker impression seeing his worried face as he walked in the room. Blake was his partner in the magic act. "Shut up, Blake this is serious! Go away!" Max snapped back, "We can use him too," the voice on the phone said, "tell him to stay we will use him too,". "Blake please don't go! They need you!" Max said. "Who needs me?" asked Blake. "The people who say they have Astra and little Astry," Max burst out. "Have they any proof they have them?" asked Blake. "Nothing but their word so far," said Max, "Put it on speaker phone I'll close the door," Blake said. Max turned on speaker phone and Blake closed the door.Show book
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, (July 24, 1878 - October 25, 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist who published more than 90 books during his lifetime, as well as hundreds of short stories, plays, and essays. He gained a name in the 1910s as a great writer in the English-speaking world. The following recording includes the short stories "The Sword of Welleran" and "Carcassone."Show book
American author Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" was written in April of 1894 and originally published in Vogue in December of that year. The title refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the protagonist, Louise Mallard, hears that her husband is dead, then discovers that he is alive after all. The short story is a mainstay of feminist literary study.Show book
Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. Story. Poems. Story. Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters. And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 1 - Chapter & Verse - Oscar Wilde 2 - The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 3 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde 4 - Sonnet to Liberty by Oscar Wilde 5 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 6 - Easter Day by Oscar Wilde 7 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 8 - Serenade by Oscar Wilde 9 - Endymon by Oscar Wilde 10 - Her Voice by Oscar Wilde 11 - Impression du Matin by Oscar Wilde 12 - Requescat by Oscar Wilde 13 - A Vision by Oscar Wilde 14 - The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde 15 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 16 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar WildeShow book
Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few of the tales are dark, others a bit lighter, but all celebrate the creativity of storytelling. The second part of the book is a collection of new poetry unearthing the wonders of language, the mundane, and grief and mourning as part of life—the dark spot within the light. Death is the inevitable, inescapable result of mortality, and grief is the price the living pay for that condition. Readers are invited to join in the journey, take some comfort in the knowledge of shared darkness, and know that even within the dark moments, there is always at least a speck of splintered light.Show book
Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of their past history and the fragility of their unchartered future. Hunger illuminates how first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and emotionally uprooted from their homeland, mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment—and how the past affects and shapes their children. In luminous prose, these stories of love and loss explore the profound and painful ties between husband and wife, parent and child, sister and sister. The stunning title novella is told by a woman whose love for an exiled musician compels her into a tragic marriage in which her husband's unfulfilled desires nearly destroy their children. In other stories, a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death. Lan Samantha Chang weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family, into haunting tales. Again and again, Chang asks the question: is love not a kind of burden, stifling and terrifying in the choices and responsibilities it forces on us? And yet we yearn for it, define ourselves by our experience of it, cannot live without it.Show book
