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  Colleen - A Good Women Story

  Halle Hill

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  A girl immerses herself in the strange, beautiful lives of her best friend’s family.Colleen is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

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  Howls from the Scene of the...

  Jessica Peter, Timaeus Bloom

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  A death row cell that recounts the dark stories of its inmates. An informant who consumes shards of crystallized skulls to see the past. A world where to speak of the dead is a violation of an unjust society's rules. Heists, drugs, cults, detectives, murder, monsters, revenge. 
    
  Commit yourself to Howls from the Scene of the Crime, an anthology of crime horror laced with blood, secrets, and occult compulsions from some of the best established and emerging horror authors writing today. Featuring a foreword by Bram Stoker Award® winning crime horror author, Cynthia Pelayo. 
  Edited by Jessica Peter and Timaeus Bloom with a foreword by Cynthia Pelayo 
  Stories by Joseph Andre Thomas, R.H. Newfield, C.B. Jones, Ashe Olivier Deng, Michelle Tang, Nathan Schuetz, Christopher O’Halloran, Steve Neal, L.T. Williams, TJ Price, Carson Winter, Christopher Buehlman, Mary Sanche, Donyae Coles, J.W. Donley, Peter Ong Cook, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jennifer L. Collins, RSL, Dustin Mendel, Lindsey Ragsdale, and M. Halstead

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai...

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  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 vast Empire of the Russians literature was a way to exchange ideas, values and cultures.  Yet each author, each story, each character is an individual example of a journey that, story by story, has transformed the glimmering arc of its literature.   
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The Russians - An Introduction 
  2 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  3 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 
  4 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  5 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  6 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky 
  7 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  8 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  9 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 
  10 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 
  11 - Taman by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov 
  12 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin

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  Laughter is the Best Medicine:...

  Peter Sykes

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  It is said that a surgeon must have ‘the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady,’ but have you ever wondered how a surgeon learns to operate, how he ‘cuts his teeth’ progressing from naive newly-qualified doctor to competent surgeon? 
  In this collection of medical tales, the training of one slightly naive young trainee is viewed through the experiences of the patients he treats as he embarks on this most challenging of careers. We share his joy when things go well, his anguish when they don’t and learn that, at the end of the day, compassion and a sense of humour make wonderful medicine.

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  The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon

  Richard Edward Connell

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  "The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon" by Richard Edward Connell is a humorous short story set in post-World War I France. Monsieur Pettipon, a modest and diligent clerk in a small French town, becomes the focus of the tale when he unintentionally misplaces an important government document. Fearing disgrace, he embarks on a journey of deception and lies to cover up his mistake. His innocent nature contrasts with the escalating absurdity of his actions, leading to a series of comical misunderstandings. The story highlights the pitfalls of dishonesty and the humorous consequences of even the smallest transgressions.

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  Dead Plague

  Andrew Tomlinson

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  Warning: do not read this book if you are of a sensitive disposition! 
   
  Within this book lies a collection of short stories each different from the other but all connect with aspects of horror, suspense and survival, set within a post-apocalyptic world, where the dead have risen from an unknown viral outbreak, that abidingly seek the flesh of the remaining survivors. 
    
  The remaining humans attempt to find some semblance of a life on a reformed earth created by the dead. Each story depicts how the dead have reshaped the lives of the survivors and illustrates how they struggle to conform to the change while trying to hold onto some sanity and attempt to continue with life while pondering how long that life will be.

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