Showing results for "Christians" in Short Stories

More than a hundred years into the future, as the US approaches its 400th anniversary, Tomas, a young graduate student, searches for the real identity of one of the cyborgs that maintained American homes. He has been haunted for years by an audio clip of a cyborg named Felipe and is intent on writing Felipe’s biography. In the clip, Felipe can only recite that he was made in America, but Tomas must find out: Where was the Self-made Man really from?

When five college friends cross America in a minivan to find themselves, they chance upon a road that isn’t on any map. They can’t resist exploring it. The van breaks down. They find a town, a massive trailer park steeped in squalor. The town isn’t on any map either. They find people in town. They’ll wish they hadn’t. The only sanctuary is the Big House - a giant mansion at the center of town that appears to be abandoned, only all the lights come on at night. Inside the Big House is the secret of the town. Inside, they’ll finally find themselves. They won’t like what they find.

Poor John was greatly troubled, because his father was very ill and could not recover. Except for these two, there was no one in their small room. The lamp on the table had almost burned out, for it was quite late at night.

Jens Christian Grøndahls DAGE SOM GRÆS består af seks fortællinger; man kunne også kalde dem små romaner, korte romaner, hver især er de så stofmættede, tætte, koncentrerede, at der er rigeligt til en hel roman. De handler alle seks om mennesker på flugt, fra krig, fra sult, fra fattigdom, fra grimme oplevelser. De fleste foregår i Danmark, men der er også afstikkere til bl.a. Italien, Tyskland og Østrig. Fortællinger om flygtninge før og nu, om tro og ensomhed, om at gribe ind i andres liv og om at finde friheden på uventede steder.

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque. The stories in Hot Water Music dash around...

What if the visitor you were waiting for had already arrived? Martin Avdeitch is a skilled cobbler whose tiny basement workshop looks out upon a cold Russian street. Once sustained by family and faith, he has been left alone by devastating loss. Grief has hardened his heart, and he can no longer...

Hier stoßen irrwitzige Weihnachtsverweigerer auf tiefe menschliche Abgründe, und plötzlich wird Weihnachten zum Schauplatz aberwitziger Zukunftsvisionen. Da rächt sich ein gutmütiger Mann nach zwanzig Jahren Qual grausam an seiner Ehefrau, Rentier Rudolf gründet eine Gewerkschaft, ein durchgeknallter US-Präsident verbietet das Christfest, und selbst die Höllenfürsten feiern ihre ganz eigene, infernalische Weihnacht.

Experience the Bible come to life before your eyes as New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin uses his storyteller's imagination to present the life of Jesus in a way that will engage your faith in new ways. This collection of more than twenty short stories, compiled from Martin's books...

Christian Bobin renoue avec la fibre narrative de ses grands livres : Le Très-Bas, Prisonnier au berceau, et construit celui-ci en quinze récits...

Alois wird versehentlich für einen Erfolgs-Coach gehalten und improvisiert sich durch ein Motivationsseminar. In diesen satirischen Kurzgeschichten triffst du auf Menschen wie dich und mich: Sie versuchen sich zu optimieren, zu digitalisieren und zu organisieren – und scheitern dabei grandios. Mit trockenem Humor und liebevoller Ironie erzählt Christian Enner von den kleinen und großen Katastrophen des modernen Alltags.

The revered author’s definitive collection of short fiction, which explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind. As powerful, inventive, and profound as his theological and philosophical works, The Dark Tower reveals another side of Lewis’s creative mind and his longtime fascination with reality and spirituality. It is ideal listening for fans of J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis’s longtime friend and colleague.

A celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return listeners to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within.

For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, these stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fictional place of value and beauty that is Port William, Kentucky. Berry has said it's taken a lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man, and that's what we have here, stories told with grace and ease and majesty. Wendell Berry is one of our greatest living American authors, writing with the wisdom of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love.

As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include "Thicker Than Liquor," "Where Did They Go?," "It Wasn't Me," "The Boundary," "That Distant Land," and the titular "The Wild Birds." Spanning more than three decades, from 1930 to 1967, these wonderful stories follow Wheeler Catlett, and reintroduce listeners to the beloved people who live in Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky.

Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from Paris to San Paolo to outer space, this is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short-story writers of all time.

In Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, Hans Christian Andersen offers one of his most mature and quietly devastating tales—a reflective allegory about love, art, and the cost of mistaking appearance for substance.

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Love at Mistletoe Inn by Cindy Kirk Sometimes the road to happiness is paved with youthful mistakes. Ten...

Schnee – knirscht unter den Schuhen, verwandelt Wiesen und Felder in weiße Winterlandschaften und lockt die Menschen mit den ersten rieselnden Flocken in die Natur. Dass Schnee aber durchaus auch ein geheimnisvolles und bedrohliches Element sein kann, beweist Jens Wawrczeck mit seinem Hörbuch Snowy Evening . In den drei ausgewählten Erzählungen von Conrad Aiken, Hans Christian Andersen und Alexander Puschkin ist Schnee kein bloßes Naturphänomen, er spielt Schicksal und greift in das Leben der Figuren ein.

From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume. No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and...

I am a poor lad, and live in one of the narrowest of lanes; but I have plenty of light: my room is high up in the house, and there is a good prospect over the roofs of the opposite houses. During the first few days I lived in the town, I felt very lonely and low-spirited. Instead of the forest and the green hills of the country, I had nothing but black chimney-pots on the horizon of my view. And then I had not a single friend, nor one familiar face to greet me.