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  Jay Horne's: The Tale of A...

  Jay Horne

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  When Heath inherits his father's antique piano, he becomes consumed by mastering Beethoven's passionate sonata. But as his playing improves, a sinister thirst awakens within the instrument. Blending the psychological horror of Stephen King with Anne Rice's gothic sensibilities, this spine-tingling story explores the thin line between artistic devotion and madness. As the piano's hunger grows, Heath must face the terrifying possibility that some melodies are better left unplayed. 
  If the Appassionata must be played, then the musician is really going to have to kill it!

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  A Game of Horns - A Red Unicorn...

  Lisa Magnum

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  Red. The color of blood, of war, of passion—and of a new unicorn herd. Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some stories feature physical unicorns; most do not. Some unicorns are kind; most are not. From a battlefield to a candy store, from zombie unicorns in rural America to telepathic unicorns on the dark side of Europa, from the fantastical past to the possible future, no creative avenue or conflict remains unexplored by these talented storytellers. Pick a story. Take a chance. And play the Game of Horns. All profits benefit the Superstars Writing Seminar Scholarship Fund.

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  Guy de Maupassant - Six of the...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Primordium

  Lucas Schrader

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  A New Myth for a New Age!Enjoy the origins of the universe from a new perspective, combining aspects of Christian, Norse, Egyptian, and Greek cosmology.*Primordium, Latin for the first beginning and used in Biology to mean the earliest developmental stage for an organic substructure. These same Latin roots are combined to describe the theoretical swamp where life first began, the primordial soup.

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  Seasons of Purgatory

  Shahriar Mandanipour

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  The first English-language story collection from "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (Guardian) 
   
   
   
  In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

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  Phire Paoya : MyStoryGenie...

  Ananya Das

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  Bikram is an Indian software professional who had migrated to America many years back on work and had since then settled down permanently like many skilled and highly educated Indian professionals in that country. After a few years, he started his own family and married a homely Indian woman named Shefali, whom he moved overseas with him from India with a permanent visa. Things were happy with the young couple getting used to the American way of living and, soon, they had their first child, whom they had affectionately named Tito. 
  Shefali was happily attending to her child full time and, she soon started moving around with her child when Bikram was away from home with his day job. During one of such outdoor strolls, the child got stolen by a habitual offender and history-sheeter and thereby devastated the couple’s peaceful abode. A sense of guilt and deep remorse amidst the tragedy led to eventual separation and, the spouses drifted apart. 
  Long-term psychiatric counseling saved Shefali from turning insane and, her lonely world started limping back with a day job at a child daycare center. More than helping Shefali to survive, the job acted as a balm to soothe Shefali’s unfulfilled motherly yearnings. But the twist of fate had more in store for Sefali as she heard the news that threatened to reopen her wounds fresh. 
  Tune in to this audio story from the “MyStoryGenie” Bengali Audiobooks that scrupulously present the riveting dilemma between emotion and responsibility.

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