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BENNY THE ANTICHRIST and other stories

Author : Scott Ellis

Publisher : Fossil Cove Press

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 21,68 MB

Release : 2022-08-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1777810817

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BENNY THE ANTICHRIST and other stories The first ever collection of stories and vignettes from noted science fiction and fantasy storyteller Scott Ellis, including... Benny the Antichrist - He's the arch-arch-villain, the most made guy in this universe or any other. And he's looking to make a career change... The Reason of Sleep - How do you make your way in a world ruled by those who never sleep and those who live in dreams? Fae-Dar - There's this bar, see, full of gods, trolls, pixies and every other being out of myth and legend. And in walks an accountant... In the Shaft - two guys getting high and playing b-ball in a skyscraper elevator shaft, what could go wrong? Saccade - He has no illusions. That's his problem. Magic Phone - A lyrical conversation about guns, long distance and neutrinos The Deep Crew, who handles the psychic garbage of an entire city? A special kind of sanitation worker.





CRAWLING TO THE MOON

Author : Scott Ellis

Publisher : Fossil Cove Press

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 2022-11-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1990860346

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Fossil Cove Press presents CRAWLING TO THE MOON, The second collection of stories and vignettes from noted science fiction and fantasy storyteller, Scott Ellis, featuring... Crawling to the Moon: A tornado, a talking doberman, fate and beauty in a Florida horse show, ca 1971. System Crash: Sometimes being rich, cool and the boss doesn't pan out all that well... Sidecar, the path to world peace, through nanotech and alcohol. The Big Rock Candy Mountain: Two homeless men find themselves in a boxcar with a soldier from a space empire. Cup of Trembling: A drink means greatness, death or madness. And you have to choose right now. Dragon Dilemma: A warrior, a princess, a dragon: There are only a few ways this story can go, right? Well, not necessarily.... The New People: What happens when the rich, beautiful and famous have their own dimension? Fossil Cove Press presents CRAWLING TO THE MOON, The second collection of stories and vignettes from noted science fiction and fantasy storyteller, Scott Ellis, featuring... Crawling to the Moon: A tornado, a talking doberman, fate and beauty in a Florida horse show, ca 1971. System Crash: Sometimes being rich, cool and the boss doesn't pan out all that well... Sidecar, the path to world peace, through nanotech and alcohol.The Big Rock Candy Mountain: Two homeless men find themselves in a boxcar with a soldier from a space empire. Cup of Trembling: A drink means greatness, death or madness. And you have to choose right now. Dragon Dilemma: A warrior, a princess, a dragon: There are only a few ways this story can go, right? Well, not necessarily.... The New People: What happens when the rich, beautiful and famous have their own dimension? "Scott Ellis has a penchant for sophisticated, intelligent themes manifested through realistic, complex characterization. Some of it is light‑hearted, much of it makes demands on the reader. Not a book to skip through. Be prepared to think and ponder. Overall, quite a treat to read." Amazing Stories Magazine





The Dead Camel and Others Stories of Love

Author : Parvati Sharma

Publisher : Zubaan

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 45,3 MB

Release : 2012-06-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 938101745X

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In which an uncast ballot precipitates social embarrassment and recalls a past love, a young housewife finds her kitchen plagued by unabashed canoodling in the flat next door, an aspiring novelist tries to forget near-manslaughter, a schoolgirl discovers the travails of depilation, and, in a locked room, two medieval noblewomen recount the amorous avowals of a young soldier. There’s also the small matter of a dead camel lying unattended on the streets of Delhi. These twelve stories explore the unsaid, the unfinished and the misunderstood, the shocks and nuances of love and sexuality, responsibility and ambition, and our tentative attempts to peel away the layers of stories that make up our lives. “Beautifully precise writing. These stories capture people with such exactitude that you know they must come from a serious student of life. But this is one of those serious books at which you never stop laughing, for Parvati Sharma’s sense of the world is lively, generous and wickedly original.” — Rana Dasgupta, author of Solo Published by Zubaan.



Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories

Author : David Peak

Publisher : Trepidatio Publishing

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 35,4 MB

Release : 2021-04-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1950305635

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Phantom limbs, porous realities, and strange reflections shifting in black glass. The thirteen stories included in this decade-spanning collection explore how memory affects place and place memory, the traumas that haunt bodies like ghosts, and the desperation of needing to be seen and understood by others. Only in pulling back the bloody veil of this world may we be so blessed to see things as they really are—and not as we wish them to be. David Peak builds stories that are intricate structures, impossible monuments to human darkness. To read them is to feel something tap against a secret part of us, a hidden bone that refuses to be forgotten. —Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy David Peak writes like a black-winged emissary from the Void, and Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories is a travelogue behind the walls, beneath the surface, and through the worm-tunnels that pierce a dying world’s heart. From fever dreams and haunted houses to fissures in reality and the emptiness beyond, no one else captures the aspects of the abyss like David Peak. —Gordon B. White, author of As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions





First love, and other stories

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 22,54 MB

Release : 2019-11-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"First Love, And Other Stories" is a collection of works by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The collection contains such short stories as: "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."





Compass Rose and other Stories

Author : Morag Gardiner

Publisher : Morag Gardiner

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 37,73 MB

Release : 2009-11-24

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ISBN : 1409296881

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In this collection of contemporary short stories, aspects of humanity are revealed through a variety of characters. Anna, who wreaks revenge on the man she believes killed her sister. Jane, a sad old lady, coping with modern day values as her son faces financial ruin. Eva, from the Ukraine, enjoying a life of luxury in the western world. Julia, a young mother, who discovers her husband is having an affair. An Edinburgh family with a dark secret at its heart. A young woman whose career is in free fall in the aftermath of a love affair.Human fallibility and resilience unfold against various Scottish backgrounds including the city of Edinburgh, a square rigger bound for the Hebrides, and the wild majesty of the Scottish Highlands.