« Mais un jour, on se rendit compte – combien de semaines après ? – qu'elle “recevait”, qu'elle avait même beaucoup de visites, tous les samedis à l. a. même heure : 14 h 30. Ces grappes de jeunes garçons qui arrivaient en ricanant, soufflant et trompetant. Ils se poursuivaient, se faisaient des croche-pieds, s'ébouriffaient les cheveux. Le portail était déjà ouvert. Ils ne sonnaient pas, ne toquaient pas, entraient comme chez eux. Ils avaient libre accès à l'antre Boule de Gomme des mystères, ils s'engouffraient chez elle et n'en ressortaient que deux heures et demie après. L'observation vicinale recommença et s'accrut, des heures et des heures. Les commentaires et les soupçons regagnèrent toutes les lèvres. Qui étaient ces jeunes hommes ? Que faisaient-ils chez Barbie ? Pourquoi venaient-ils ? Pourquoi les recevait-elle, eux et seulement eux ? » Laissez-vous porter par les savoureuses nouvelles de Caarju, travel à journey drôles, mystérieuses et terrifiantes. Un enterrement vraiment délirant, une peintre qui pompe le sang de ses visiteurs afin de sublimer son œuvre organique, un garçon qui communication par télépathie avec une certaine Martha, et un Dieu résigné qui refait le monde... L'auteur, à travers ces quatre nouvelles aux atmosphères différentes, fait valser nos émotions, dans une écriture fluide et élégante. Un ouvrage succulent !

Wo finde ich ihn, den Duft der großen weiten Welt? Kann guy ihn überhaupt riechen?
Haben Sie eine Ahnung, wie es in Marrakesch riecht?
Hätte der Geruch in einem Reiseführer gestanden, wäre ich vielleicht nicht dorthin gefahren. Aber in welchem Reiseführer werden schon solche Nichtigkeiten erwähnt?!
Gerüche beschäftigen mich seit meiner Kindheit. Aber sie haben sich in meinem Umfeld im Laufe der Jahrzehnte verändert.
Ich habe herausgefunden, dass es typische Gerüche eines Landstrichs, einer Stadt oder einer Insel gibt.
Von vielen Städten meiner Reisen bin ich überrascht, weil ich mir einen anderen Geruch für diese area vorgestellt habe, als er in Wirklichkeit ist.
Vielleicht schaffe ich es eines Tages mit verbundenen Augen anhand des Geruches herauszufinden, in welcher Stadt ich mich gerade befinde?! Das wäre mal eine Herausforderung!

"Christmas has develop into a party of extra and conspicuous intake. usually crushed, nostalgia turns into the antidote to frantic arrangements, never-ending purchasing and enormous fee that leaves us bone weary. The sermon name, “TLC: Thanksgiving ends up in Christmas,” stuck Pastor Elaine Eachus’ mind's eye and she or he started to ask yourself how thankfulness could be the main that unlocks the richness of every day of the Christmas season. Being actually grateful takes time---to get pleasure from, to appear deeply inside of, to work out myriads of connections coming jointly for sturdy, to include existence adjustments, and to proportion those new insights. dwelling into this measurement is to determine with the wide-eyed ask yourself of a kid.
For Eachus, little moments comprise the TLC--- a granddaughter coloring a Christmas tree, making sweet with a chum, or a father giving his younger daughter a replica of Handel’s Messiah. regardless of our age, there's magic and beauty in the creation season. Eachus invitations us on a twenty-eight day trip to find God-with-us. Accompany her in this journey which could take each one people an entire life as we glance for our targeted Christmas heart."

Everyone’s scared of whatever ...

But not at all a horror writer--right? grasp editor Jeff Gelb requested 21 giants of the horror style to inform us approximately their very own worst nightmares, and this intimate anthology used to be the end result. A frightening housebreaking. A mom who will cease at not anything to offer her little woman the simplest. A spouse murdered by way of a stone Madonna. A author who loses his present and is going mad with grief. tales from Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Masterton, Max Alan Collins, Jack Ketchum, Nancy Collins, and John Shirley will sit back you to the bone.

Author Jeff Gelb has been bringing chills to readers for twenty 5 years with the groundbreaking scorching Blood erotic horror anthologies, co-edited with Michael Garrett, the darkish food horror anthologies, co-edited with Del Howison, and the surprise Rock anthologies. he's additionally the writer of SPECTERS, a horror novel. He lives in California.

THE GHETTO LIGHTHOUSE!
by:
R. Leland Smith

A prize-winning choice of shiny, available stories.These clean, modern tales should be learn only for the tremendous excitement they give. despite the fact that, the tales can be learn for how they discover components from prior works: from Maori fantasy and fairy story to masterpieces by means of writers similar to Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce and Anton Chekov. because the award-winning writer says, these tales 'touched me deeply and that i can keep in mind their substance with out hesitation'. utilizing them for proposal, she additionally explores their matters of dignity, honesty, bravery, weak spot and keenness. 'Sue Orr's tales have that riveting enthralling caliber that makes the reader race on, hoping they are going to by no means finish, but wanting to discover what occurs subsequent. Their stylishness marks a brand new departure in modern brief tale writing, her weaving of latest and colourful tales directly to strategies that all started with the good masters of previous is high-wire danger taking that succeeds magnificently. i like those tales immensely: by means of flip soft, sly, comedian, and constantly deeply proficient concerning the methods of the human heart.' - Fiona Kidman

In each lifestyles, we meet a prophet, person who both with humor, or pointed message directs us ahead on a direction, spiritual or no longer. I met any such prophet. I met him on a bus known as the "L" Line. those are his stories. The which means will be yours.

Comme on tisse une toile ou peint un tableau, des nouvelles se répondent. Et forment un réseau : personnages d’une même famille, scènes de vie contemporaine, à l. a. pêche, au cimetière, chez son psy, œuvres abstraites dans une galerie d’art, vaisseaux sanguins irriguant le cerveau. Le processus de création littéraire est brillamment mis à nu, et c’est comme une carte du monde qui se dessine.

Tout d’abord, il y a « Samba » nonchalante et superbe : l. a. reine de los angeles nuit.
Sa rencontre avec « Personne » se fera bien plus tard,des années aprés...
Aprés l. a. « lutte », celle qui va le changer, tout changer ; rebattre les cartes de ce monde absurde et fou pour enfin le mener vers los angeles « Renaissance ».

"Ngo The Vinh was once an ARVN Airborne Ranger M.D. in the course of the Vietnam struggle. This writer, winner of the 1971 nationwide Prize for Literature for his novel the golf green Belt, mockingly was once additionally penalized for his writing, while he used to be summoned to the court docket of legislations as a result of name tale of this assortment: ""The conflict of Saigon"". This brief tale files the religious trip of a soldier who accepts sacrifice and hassle within the fight for freedom of South Vietnam, a soldier who while longs for a greater society sooner or later. For the contents of this paintings, Ngo The Vinh was once accused of utilizing the clicking to move arguments that have been deemed hazardous to public order, that militated opposed to the self-discipline and combating spirit of the military, a collective of which he himself was once a member.
Like the name tale, the opposite 11 works during this assortment, half them created ahead of and the opposite part after 1975, current warfare and post-war hectic reports and goals from the point of view of Vietnamese Diaspora.

""The conflict of Saigon” hasn't ever ended and will also by no means finish. the truth seems to be author possesses no strength except a delicate middle that foresees in complete the Collective discomfort. each person may still learn ""The conflict of Saigon"", and re-read it with a view to lessen to some degree the cruelty and ruthlessness of the conflict triumphing at the moment in Saigon, even in Hanoi, within the relevant Highlands, in each one people the following, in a foreign country Vietnamese dwelling within the usa of America.
-- Phan Nhat Nam, writer of The Prisoners of War
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