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  The Black Cap

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. 
  "The Black Cap" is a sketch about a woman leaving her husband and eloping with her lover. But then her lover turns up at the station wearing a piece of totally inexplicable and unacceptable headgear...

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  Mazzoo Mazzoo

  Sandhya Rao

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  "Naznein carefully cooks some fragrant marzwangan kurma
  for a special family dinner, but just when it is all ready,
  guests arrive - unwanted guests who sniff out a free meal."

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  Night-time Stories

  Yen-Yen Lu

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  A child waits for the tooth fairy; a mother spends a night watching a recording of the previous night; two women face the ghosts that haunted their grandmothers. The nights in these ten stories are thick and substantial, ambiguous and alluring.
  
  Eerie, magical, hushed and surprisingly alive, this anthology shows the night as a place where connections are made and daylit lives can be changed.

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  The Awkward Black Man - Stories

  Walter Mosley

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  A new collection of short fiction from the Edgar Award-winning author of Devil in a Blue Dress and Trouble is What I Do.With his extraordinary fiction and gripping television writing, Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley’s most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Touching, contemplative, and always surprising, these stories introduce an array of imperfect characters—awkward, self-defeating, elf-involved, or just plain odd. In The Awkward Black Man, Mosley overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints subtle, powerful portraits of unique individuals. In "The Good News Is," a man’s insecurity about his weight gives way to illness and a loneliness so intense that he’d do anything for a little human comfort. "Pet Fly," previously published in the New Yorker, follows a man working as a mailroom clerk—a solitary job for which he is overqualified—and the unforeseen repercussions he endures when he attempts to forge a new connection. And "Almost Alyce" chronicles failed loves, family loss, alcoholism, and a Zen approach to the art of begging that proves surprisingly effective.

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  Choice Spirits

  W.W. Jacobs

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  When a mutinous spirit breaks out among the crew of the schooner, the Captain and Mate cannot comprehend the cause. As the sailors one by one refuse to eat the rotting food the Skipper has supplied, he decides to make an example of the cabin boy. 
  
  
  The crew come up with an ingenious plan to change the Skipper's mind and release the stocks of fresh meat and butter. They decide to fake the death by suicide of the cabin boy... but things do not turn out quite as they had hoped. 
  
  
  Hilarious!

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  Corporate Journeyman - Success...

  Kamini Arichandran

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  Driven to succeed: as the main character, Rhett Spires travels home after a business trip, he reflects on the skills, attitudes and strategies he employs to get ahead: what they do not tell you at work, but expect you to know. Corporate Journeyman, written in easy-to-read poetic verse, is a celebration of the corporate personality and includes a 30-point summary of Rhett's success formula.

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