Wilfried G. Lippmann gained Mayhaven's Award for Fiction for romance issues. This e-book version is all approximately romantic love, love between pals, love between relations, love between strangers. every one tale finds memorable characters, a lot humor, figuring out, and contains incredible conclusions.

El vocalista y compositor de IZAL inicia su faceta literaria y nos sorprende con un maravilloso libro de relatos ilustrado por David de las Heras.

En estas páginas conviven veinticuatro historias extraordinarias: oscuridades en cubos perfectos, silencios ensordecedores, habitaciones de inn cuyas puertas esconden una verdad incómoda, parques donde nada es lo que parece, bares de perdedores, agostos en Madrid...

Pero lo más importante son los seres que habitan estas líneas y que llenan los angeles cabeza de Mikel Izal. Peculiares, estrafalarios, solitarios y terriblemente humanos... Todos distintos pero todos inmersos en un mismo universo asfixiante, misterioso y complejo.

Mikel Izal, vocalista y compositor del grupo IZAL, hace una primera incursión en el mundo de l. a. literatura con estos relatos que conforman un homenaje a los angeles imaginación y construyen un espejo que refleja las esquinas más sombrías de nosotros mismos.

«Este es el texto más inútil que escribiré jamás. También es el último. Quedan exactamente, si el reloj de mi teléfono móvil no falla y los satélites GPS siguen funcionando con normalidad, cincuenta y tres minutos para que todo desaparezca, incluyéndonos a mí y a estas hojas de papel. Una espera como esta no es fácil. Yo los angeles afronto escribiendo, para mí siempre fue los angeles mejor manera de separarme de los angeles realidad.»

Prize-winning author Sarah Laing has written a great number of tales which are superbly written, vividly rendered and which stimulate and surprise.'Imagine that you are a statistic,' says one of many characters in those quirky, haunting tales of individuals whose internal lives allow them to get away the bins that others positioned them into. the only mum, the coed operating within the pie manufacturing facility, the child child, the death lady, the Kiwi by myself in manhattan and so forth go through those tales and in doing so allow us to input their lives.

a suite of brief tales that replicate the struggles but power of African American women

operating jointly at an area clinic for numerous years they turn into pals, yet as a result of conditions past their keep watch over they can by no means exhibit their real emotions. After a yr half Jonathan strikes again to the east coast and without touch 5 years later, they're reunited Their emotions are nonetheless there with none conditions past their keep watch over, they could eventually display their actual emotions for each other. the place will this dating finish up?

Few authors have seized the mind's eye of the general public as strongly as did Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). whilst the 1st Sherlock Holmes brief tales began to appear within the STRAND journal in 1891 his repute used to be guaranteed, and he quick turned one of many best-known writers on the earth. He used to be capable of flip his hand to just about any form of fiction: stories of poser, detection, technology fiction, comedy, romance, Napoleonic and mediaeval lifestyles, and rousing event. He created such memorable characters as Brigadier Gerard and Professor Challenger, wrote ratings of brief tales and greater than dozen novels, used to be energetic in quite a few reasons for a lot of his existence, and was once knighted by way of King Edward. but every thing he did used to be performed within the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.

This shadow has had the impression of obscuring a lot of his different paintings; paintings that, had it come from one other hand, may most likely be larger recognized and extra greatly praised this day. whereas Conan Doyle is rightly stated as a great author of detective tales, he was once additionally an finished teller of stories that includes the bizarre, the supernatural, and the terrible. It used to be a space within which, as a author, he confirmed an early curiosity: the 1st tale he's identified to have despatched for book, 'The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe', was once written whilst the writer was once merely eighteen. THE CAPTAIN OF THE 'POLE-STAR', the main entire quantity of ACD's bizarre fiction ever released, showcases this point of Conan Doyle's writing via thirty-seven tales of the mysterious and the macabre. one of the stories gathered listed here are tales of ghosts and mummies, psychic vampires and mental terror, and horrors of the earth and sky—all instructed within the inimitable sort of one of many world's maximum storytellers.

As a tender lady Alexis learns that she cant belief many folks with this set in stone the day her mother try's to kill her, she liens on her father and brother's love and should do something for them even kill whilst ask to. sign up for Alexis in her adventures jam-packed with love, hate and a complete lot more.

My muse has an odd humorousness. He, she, it, simply evokes me within the bathe. There are time while I don’t pay attention from it for months on finish. Then, increase, it’s love it have been storing up rules and hits me with them all at one time. Thank goodness the bathe curtain is there to muffle the sound of my head exploding in order to not alarm the kin. This assortment is the results of a type of encounters. Fifteen within the flesh. out of the flesh. And one someplace in between.

Gaza Writes Back is a compelling anthology of brief tales from fifteen younger writers in Gaza, individuals of a new release that has suffered immensely lower than Israel’s siege and blockade. Their reviews, specially in the course of and following Israel’s 2008-2009 offensive referred to as “Operation forged Lead”, have essentially impacted their lives and their writing. Their phrases take us into the houses and hearts of mothers, dads, scholars, kids, and elders striving to dwell lives of dignity, compassion, and which means in a single of the world’s so much embattled groups. Readers might be moved by way of the struggles tremendous and small that emerge from the well-crafted writing via those youngsters, and via the wish and braveness that radiate from the authors’ biographies.

remark fait-on pour révolutionner le monde lorsque l’on est un moustique marxiste engagé ? Tandis qu’un poteau électrique fait un burn-out, une poubelle milliardaire présente sa candidature aux élections présidentielles. Bric-à-brac de sentiments et d’objets du quotidien, tout ce petit monde bigarré cohabite avec effusions dans les contes de Tamara Radix.