Showing results for "Field Stories" in Literature & Fiction

Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events like baseball, America's national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. Field of Fantasies delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural.

The spying adventures of Major Gabby Lane, MI6 Senior Field Agent. There's a new episode every Monday. Hear Gabby and her team of Agents: Talgarth (snapping at Gabby's heels to be the best), Hans (tech wizard and loyal friend), Laravelle (young and keen to prove herself), and Coniston (one of the elite MI6 assassins) as they find the traitors and stop the terrorists. Not only that, she drives an Aston Martin Vanquish.

Join Winkie, the adventurous girl woodchuck, as she embarks on thrilling escapades alongside her sister Blinky and their forest friends. Together, they explore the wonders of nature, seeking out tasty treats and delightful experiences. Known as the wily woodchuck, Winkie often finds herself in precarious situations, leaving us on the edge of our seats, wondering if she’ll navigate her way to safety and grow up to be a wise and robust woodchuck. - Summary by phil chenevert

Join a charming journey as a successful middle-aged widower returns to his small hometown, where old memories and acquaintances await. What begins as a simple visit to reminisce takes an unexpected turn when he discovers that one of his beloved childhood friends has passed away. As he navigates this bittersweet reunion, he finds himself drawn to her daughter, who seems to embody the spirit of her mother. Can this new connection ignite a spark of love and healing in his life? (Summary by Roger Melin)

Gogol's phantasmagorical tale about a man whose nose decides to abscond and begin living a life of its own is one of the earliest and most celebrated examples of absurdist literature. Apart from its recondite humor, it is remarkable for Gogol's skill in characterization and his ability to paint a picture of contemporary life in Russia in a few verbal brushstrokes.

Arthur Scott Bailey, a proud native of Vermont, captivated young readers with over forty delightful childrens books featuring a colorful cast of animals, birds, and even insects. One of his most beloved tales, The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker, is part of the cherished Tuck-Me-In Tales series, designed to inspire imagination and a love for nature. - Summary by Larry Wilson

A Typical Story is a weekly podcast by myself, Parker Fields. Each week I write an original story for you to enjoy!

This podcast is my storyteller’s field journal. Here, I speak the stories I write—each one an experiment in prose, a flight of imagination, and part of my journey toward becoming a skilled writer.

An exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past century For centuries, explorers from all over the globe have traveled the far reaches of what the world has to offer...

As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule. Relying upon his ingenuity to keep them out of prison, Fr. Viktor solicits aid from an unlikely intercessor-the Nazi charity worker who confiscated his monastery for state purposes.

In 1903, over 300 Indian children from across America lived at the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School in a remote, isolated valley in Montana. Among the children were a handful of teenage girls, many who had only lived in tepees. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men's and women's university teams. After the games, the girls recited Shelley and Longfellow, played mandolins and violins, sang, danced, and pantomimed.

‘Must read!’ Closer ‘I love, love, LOVE Perfect Remains!’ Reader review ‘A superb debut!’ Reader review On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth and a fragment of clothing. In the...

I was young and naive. I thought I could save the world. I thought that protecting those around me from hurt and pain was what I was born to do. She made me feel that way. Ava Links, the little girl who was too f - king stubborn for her own good. The little girl who absorbed the hurt and pain of everyone around her and tried to bring sunshine to them all. The little girl who somehow looked at me, expecting - no, damn near demanding - I protect her.

These stories display Twain's place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for social justice and a pervasive equalitarian attitude.

Anthology of Christmas Stories is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.

Once upon a time, Luke Lane loved a little, stubborn, delusional girl, and that little girl was me. My fairy tale happy ever after always included my black-haired, blue-eyed, knight in shining armor, and that knight was Luke Lane. Then I grew up and convinced myself that it wasn't a fairy tale after all. It was Fate. I twisted Fate to make her story come to life, but Fate fought back, and now I am looking at a man I still love, but he doesn't feel the same. I have to walk away.

Keeka: Alone in the world after her mother's death, she tries to find the life she dreamed of as a child. Trucker: Alone in the world, the family he felt part of begins to fall apart as his dreams of being an NFL quarterback become his reality. What happens when everything you had is gone, everything you wished for seems to be in arm's reach, and your world begins to spin in circles? You fall.

From The King in Yellow, this tale narrated by Mark Alexander begins: "The street is not fashionable, neither is it shabby. It is a pariah among streets - a street without a Quarter. It is generally understood to lie outside the pale of the aristocratic Avenue de l'Observatoire. The students of the Montparnasse Quarter consider it swell and will have none of it. The Latin Quarter, from the Luxembourg, its northern frontier, sneers at its respectability and regards with disfavour the correctly costumed students who haunt it. Few strangers go into it."

This audiobook features a collection of classic vampire tales by Jan Neruda, E.F. Benson, and George MacDonald.

This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "After Dark in the Playing Fields". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.