Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies

Herein lies four quirky stories of unexpected heroes. These imaginative tales are intended for young readers, teen readers or elderly readers because a fun story is entertaining regardless of age.

Jebediah, the Unlikely Hero, and the Three Plagues of the Kingdom is about a coward who must confront a dragon and grapple with an ogre before he can find a happy ending.

Super Human is a short piece about designer babies created by genetic selection.

The Fortune-Maker is a short story about a girl who struggles to find...

The worlds in Marilyn Horn's stories are sometimes dark, sometimes surreal, and sometimes both--and yet not so unfamiliar. No matter how fantastic the world, loneliness is the enemy, connection the goal.

Within these pages, a brother and sister look to the cosmos for answers as death makes its steady approach. A monster longs to destroy the evil he sees beyond his attic window. An outcast dolphin finds her place spinning tales of hope and inspiration. A woman forced back home plunges into old magic to save a dog's life. A lone survivor creates a new world with the only thing the...

A magical collection of yarns at the heart of which are truths and lessons that will leave you with a wonderfully whimsical perspective on life.

In a sense they are extraordinary tales about ordinary people, told with empathy and imagination. One shows us that, when it comes to love, you can't disguise what's in the eyes. Another explores the idea that the miracle of love just requires a little Yin and Yang. There's the sensitive but tragic tale of the love of a lifetime that vanishes overnight. Finally, a man mourning a past life and love discovers that the...

Do not forgive me, Man, for I have sinned.

I am all of the millions, and I am myself one of the millions. They crowd within me, the people, and rampage among my tissues. Their frenzy is perpetual. Each one of them weeps, and brings into my body his or her own pain, and the pain of one becomes my pain, and becomes the pain of millions. It is an awesome responsibility, and I bear it because I love them. I would not do, otherwise.

Yet ... I have sinned.

I love them, but their pain is great. I confess, I have thought of myself. I have ordained myself:...

Back in print after a long hiatus, Quentin S. Crisp's third collection of fiction, Rule Dementia , sees the author start to experiment with the form and content of the macabre tale. 'The Haunted Bicycle' is his first attempt to use Japanese I-novel techniques with supernatural subject matter and tales such as 'The Waiting' and 'Unimaginable Joys' are a fusion of cosmic vision and the fey, shoe-gazing miserablism of Generation X. Throughout, the collection forms a symbolic, whimsical bestiary of the modern soul as brimming with unexpected, irreducible and oddly specific imagery as...

There is nothing else quite like the short stories of Lady Dilke in the annals of English literature, and even readers who have little sympathy with their stylistic affectations, allegorical pretensions and harrowing conclusions are likely to admit that they have a peculiar fascination. Those who find some resonance in their psychological ambience might easily think them touched with genius. The simple fact that they are so unusual is a great asset in itself, from the viewpoint of lovers of exotica, but they are not peculiar merely for the sake of cultivating unconventionality. Seen as an...