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  Forgetting is How We Survive

  David Frankel

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  A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is found on a dark lakeside. A woman tries to make sense of a strange memory from her childhood. A father searches for a missing dog – his only link to his lost son. A boy on the brink of adolescence embarks on a journey and gets more than he bargained for. Young lovers get their kicks trespassing in empty houses. A young man prepares to leave his hometown for the last time, and a giant sink hole threatens to swallow everything.
  In Forgetting Is How We Survive, people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for the futures that have been lost to them. Each faces a turning point – an event that will move their life from one path to another, and every event casts a shadow.
  The stories in this collection come from another England where earthy realism hides another world where anything is possible.

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  Valley of the Dogs - Dark Stories

  James Musgrave

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  Dark Stories for Readers with Surreal, Realistic, and Deep TastesNarrator: Award-winning actress and audiobook voice from the United Kingdom, Nikki Delgado.Silver Medal Winner of the 2021 Reader's Favorite International Contest for Best Adult AnthologyA B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree, 20219.25 overall Evaluation at BookLife, Publishers WeeklyHollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave’s collection of eleven stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of “star power,” but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical “Hollywood endings” in very unique and literary ways. This collection has a remedy for the past year’s traumas caused by a worldwide pandemic.Award-winning short fiction author, Jacob M. Appel says, "With the publication of Valley of the Dogs, Jim Musgrave joins the ranks of George Saunders, Steven Millhauser, and Kevin Brockmeier at the heart of the modern American short story's second great renaissance."

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  Titbottom’s Spectacles

  George William Curtis

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  American writer George William Curtis' short story, "Titbottom's Spectacles," is a satircally humorous tale about a man who is bequeathed glasses which let him see people for who they really are--and the consequences thereof. 
   
  George William Curtis (1824 - 1892) was a traveler, essayist and fiction writer who was particularly renowned for his short stories. He combined a highly polished style with a great sense of humor and his works were enthusiastically received in the heydays of American periodical literature. 
   
  Gillian Warner has been acting and narrating for the past two decades, and has a particular affinity for Tacoma, WA, and American fiction of the nineteenth century.

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  The Substitute

  W. Jacobs

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  W. W. Jacobs was an English writer, famous for his humorous short stories, particularly those relating the preposterous adventures and misadventures of sailors on leave. The collection Short Cruises contains some of W. W. Jacobs' most popular characters, including the night watchman at the docks in Wapping who relates the stories of his friends Ginger Dick, Sam Small and Peter Russet. 'The Substitute' is a humorous story narrated by the night watchman who has made two dangerous enemies - the office boy and the philandering skipper of a coal barge. The office boy is determined to catch the watchman doing something he shouldn't in order to get him in trouble. The skipper is keen to dally with his mistress without being observed. And the watchman would just like to nip off for a beer during his watch without anyone noticing. After a series of awkward encounters between the three protagonists, the situation is further complicated when the skipper's wife decides to pay him a surprise visit.

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  Scottish Traditional Tales

  A.J. Bruford, D.A. MacDonald

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  Stories of heroes, clans, and more in a collection that “savours the Scottish rendering of old folk tales . . . A treasure house of the oral tradition” (The Wee Review).   All over the world, traditional tales were told at the fireside until books, newspapers, radio, and television took their place. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to recordings of Lowland cairds (travellers), some are well-known tales which have equivalents in other cultures and languages, whilst others are unique to Scotland. The tales are arranged by theme: tall tales, hero tales, legends of ghosts and evil spirits, tales of fate and religion, fairies and sea-folk, children’s tales, trickster tales, tales of clan feuds, and robber tales. This “fine book which is highly recommended” quickly establishes itself as a classic (Dalriada).

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  Was It an Illusion - A Victorian...

  Amelia B. Edwards

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  In this well-known classic, a school inspector travelling to the village of Pit End wonders whether the things he’s seeing are products of his imagination or something supernatural. There’s a rational answer, but is it the right one?Was It an Illusion is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.With music by Benedict Edwards.

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