Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Short Stories (single author)

Bold Celtic warriors show their mettle in the game of life. Some lead thousands; some lead just themselves.

In these short stories you will see the human side of daring men as they try to make their place in the world.

Find out why The Khorassan Road was set up. Travel to Samarkand with Timur. Conquer the desert scorpion. Be in the Golden Horde with Mulcha, the Circassian son of Genghis Kahn. Go around the world with a bard. Go to Peru and see the garden of jewels. Find out how a man crippled at two made a fortune. Who was the founder of Tyre? Was Ateea the most feared man on the...

"Diplomatic Tales" tells the story of how American diplomacy works overseas. Career diplomat William S. Shepard first guides us through the practical side of diplomatic experience in Part One, Consular Tales, a record of his actual experiences in five missions overseas, and in the Department of State in Washington.

In Part Two, Foreign Service Tales, we explore through fiction every part of an American Embassy, from the glamorous Ambassadorial suite to the General Services Office where essential security and other administrative functions are performed. Along the way, jealousy, love lost...

Cappy Hall Rearick writes with warm love and humor about her life and the people in it. Her previous books, "Simply Southern" and "Simply Christmas, " have delighted readers all over North America. You will feel the spirit of the South as you mosey down her uncommon ground with husband Babe, their overweight dog, Tallulah Blankhead, and their sad cat, Sophie Sorrowful. Cappy Hall Rearick is the new voice of the South.

Not Simple at all
"There is nothing 'simply' or even 'southern' about Cappy Rearick's insightful prose. Hers is a language that transcends geographic boundaries and...

"Perversions, Insecurities and Random Thoughts of No One in Particular" is the anonymous feeling of our people coupled with drawn photographic renderings of our random world.

This is a book of unconditional empathy.bluntly truthful, unabashedly obscure and alternatively fictional-its man-kind at their most real.

In the grand tradition of "Tristram Shandy" and "Tom Jones," not to mention Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield, author John D. Foster takes us on a journey through the American landscape of latter day 20th century. It's a rollicking tale of being down and out, or in and out, with a smorgasbord of cads, cons and other characters who populate the daylight demimonde of Southern California on the fringe. Indeed, it's a fringe tale of the edgy, the offbeat and the oddball. These are tales not oft told, full of whimpers and whispers that are reminiscent of a whiplash in a hurricane.

Uma Parameswaran's earlier works have earned her praise and awards. "What was Always Hers" won the Jubilee Award for the best collection of short stories published in 1999. Of the title story, that appeared earlier as "The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice," reviewers had this to say: "A deftly wrought novella possessing the quiet elegance born of outrage."(The Globe and Mail)

"Uma Parameswaran has written with the insight and lyricism of the fine poet she is." June Callwood

"It is activist literature, woman-empowering fiction, and it has a political edge." (Herizons)

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The year is 1987 and the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is living with his mother in a small house in Sacramento when suddenly there is a knock on the door..

How far does reading go? At what point does the act of reading catapult the reader into the seemingly inevitable desire that leads to writing? What is the line that divides reading from writing, and what happens in the process of trying to import the perspective one enjoys on one side of that line onto the other side? The four pieces collected here are meditations on possible approaches to these and other questions related to...

A gripping selection of prizewinning and inspirational stories that make this collection of eighteen short stories and two novelettes easy to read and challenging.

"Mama and Mr. Moody" was awarded the Blue Ribbon by Christian Life Magazine in the 1950's. Other stories appeared in several publications throughout the years. The last four stories are set in the Hudson River Valley in the 1700's. "The Winding Horn" and "The Bow" are more recent in writing and similar to short novelettes.

Tales of the Mullah Nasrudin have entertained readers from diverse cultures throughout history. His antics embody the most common human foibles and offer opportunities for insights into the Divine Mysteries. These "New Tales of Nasrudin" are offered as a supplement to that tradition and are sure to elicit a chuckle, some head scratching, or an "Aha!," perhaps all at the same time. They should be read a few at a time, so as to savor their inner meaning.

Also available from Eric K. Sorensen: ECLECTICUTION, a musical compact disk of original music in styles from folk to Chinese classical to...

"Scared of Fear" is when someone has fear of being scared of the uncertain. When you read these and poems, you will understand the meaning "scared of fear." The stories and poems that you are about to read, are unique in there own ways. When you read the endings, use your imagination. These stories are mysterious in that sense of fiction or it seems to appear in that way, but actually, it could be reality. You will have to decide. Enjoy the creation of horror and terror in the past, present, and future of the unknown reality.

As a common theme of the twenty-five short stories of "Small Steps," lives are seen as being determined by these small steps. The collection encompasses happenings in different places and times, ranging from early nineteenth century Italy or America to contemporary accounts either in America or South America. Several present the many facets of love. In some cases, unusual responses of a man or a woman are guided by unexpected expressions of love.For example, a disturbed Viet Nam veteran after witnessing the birth of a girl becomes a hidden, one-man protection squad while she is growing up. He...

"I settled into this strange place, it seemed, as much as Lorenzo did, almost immediately that first summer. We quickly grew accustomed to our new home. We had constant running water and electricity, and we had a color television that could pick up twelve channels, and even had our very own bedroom, which we shared with bunk beds. We lived on a quiet street in New Domangue where there weren't too many other people like us, but this didn't bother Lorenzo and me because we had each other wherever we went. Father, who often spoke about New Domangue being our new home in the same breath that he...

The pitfalls of sin and sensuality keep Enoch dazed and confused as he tries to grasp his calling from above. He uses narcotics, indulges in promiscuous behavior, and commits abominable atrocities against others. After wandering to and fro across the globe, Enoch tries to find peace of mind, but discovers a world of chaos. Ultimately he falls in love and marries a virtuous woman, but he has an illicit affair and the marriage is annulled. Disciplined Order Chaotic Lunacy delves into the mind of a man bordering on madness. Enoch struggles in his relationship with God. He battles his own...

""The road led to a ramshackle tobacco barn on the ridge, then curved up one last little rise before leveling as a slash through thickets of ash and cedar. In his later years after developing a reflective nature, John would form a psychic bond with the unknown dead men who had built the barn and once hauled tobacco to it over the old dug road from fields long gone back to woods. He paused near the barn as day and night stood in perfect balance. In the years ahead, John would watch this interplay of light and darkness many times at the beginnings and endings of untold days. The delicate shades...

Long called the Golden City, modern-day Prague stands as a shining jewel of Central and Eastern Europe. A link between post-Communist East and capitalist West, Prague is a city sitting on the cusp of regression and progress. This tension is mirrored in its people, those who cling to their past with the bitter "vigor" of a shot of "Becherovka," and those whose hearts hold onto the hope of a better future. We Are The New Bohemians: " The Post-Communist Collection" tells the stories of these souls, finding them fearfully abandoned in hidden rooms and bleeding in back alleys. Finding them in the...