Publisher: Bu Classics Books
The intersection of professional duty and human emotion takes center stage in these stories celebrating the quiet heroism of those who build and maintain the modern world.
Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a rambling traffic-choked metropolis, bursting at the seams with people striving to earn a living on its mean streets. While Nairobi has every appearance of a fast-growing, modern African city with the mushrooming skyscrapers and superhighways, the city possesses a dark underbelly. Dog Meat Samosa delves into the bowels of Nairobi’s crowded urban backstreets to paint a gritty picture of its underworld, to describe the human experience within this once glorious “City in the Sun” that has since metamorphosed into a cutthroat hustlers’ paradise.Show book
Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure. People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high–speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty–two parking tickets, and a sexual–identity problem. Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.Show book
Spectres, Spooks & Spirits brings together more than 5 hours of the greatest ghost stories ever told. This collection, written by a selection of the best writers of the 19th and Early 20th Century, contains tales that are genuinely scary and unsettling alongside comedic and romantic narratives, some of which have perfectly plausible explanations, while others can only be ascribed to supernatural causes. This anthology includes "The Occupant of the Room" by Algernon Blackwood, "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, "The Ebony Frame" by E. Nesbit, "The Phantom Hag" by W. Bob Holland, "The Haunted Dolls' House" by M.R. James, "The Ghost and the Dominos" by Elizabeth Semple, "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached" by E. Nesbit, "Phantasmagoria" by Lewis Carroll, "A Phantom Toe" by W. Bob Holland, "The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange" by Arthur Conan Doyle, "Mrs Veal's Ghost" by Leonora Lang (Leonora Blanche Alleyne), "A Neighbour's Landmark" by M.R. James, "The Mass for the Dead" by E. Nesbit, and "An Evening's Entertainment" by M.R. James.Show book
Destitute but deeply in love, young Della and Jim face the challenge of finding perfect Christmas gifts for each other. In a heartbreaking act of sacrifice, they sell their most prized possessions to buy the other a cherished item.Show book
Black Mare Books serves up some fun-sized treats from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, A.B. Richards, and Claire A. Murray. In this grab-bag of Halloween shorts, you’ll find an assortment of killers and creeps. You may want to log off your Zoom meeting to play with the nice birdies. Perhaps kick back with a premium pizza before you go for a long walk in the dark woods? Or maybe you’ve wanted to run away to join the circus? Sounds like more fun than keeping a date with Death. But be warned: the monsters may not be who you think they are.Show book
The funeral is the one appointment we’d rather never make. Whether as the deceased, or as a friend and loved one attending, a burial is the grim reminder that a life has passed and the future must now be made without them. Our talented authors explore this period of time in their own individual and inimitable ways as only they can. 01 - Stories Featuring Funerals - An Introduction 02 - John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce 14 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 04 - The Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather 05 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev 06 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 07 - The Way To The Churchyard by Thomas Mann 08 - Jose Matias by Eca de Queiros 09 - The Country Doctor by Mary E Mann 10 - Siegmund Simon by Alfred Lichtenstein 11 - When I Was Dead by Vincent O'Sullivan 12 - The Wedding Eve by Morley Roberts 13 - A Trip To The Other World by Kalman MikszathShow book
