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In his three novellas, In Short Measures, Strong Conspirators, and Sally Forth, Michael Ruhlman delves deeply into the nuanced complexity of romantic and sexual love - and the inevitable evolution of the heart over the span of years and decades. Each novella asks questions about the nature of love in terms of loyalty and fidelity - what are one's obligations toward one's spouse, one's family, and one's heart?

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Suffused with warmth and passion, the stories in Falling in Love Again showcase the myriad variations of romantic love - fleeting, intimate, joyous, heartbreaking. Featuring classic stories by Ruskin Bond, such as 'The Eyes Have It' and 'The Girl from Copenhagen', this stirring collection captures the range of feelings that are indubitably part of the infinite spectrum of love.

There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.

Andre Monroe is ready to move on from heartbreak, and the first step is bringing home his rescue pup. He’d bonded instantly with the playful Zeus and was already planning their first adventures. But one thing he definitely hadn’t daydreamed about was Zeus accidentally being promised to someone else - or that he might go home empty-handed and brokenhearted all over again.

A teenage Anita fights with her first wave of infatuation, a grown-up girl goes through crests and troughs of her various firsts, a married woman struggles with the meanderings of her mind at various stages of her married life, a love story told from a child observer's perspective, and a story of a man's yearning to feel his roots in another part of the globe. Mundane details of ordinary lives and the darker recesses of the minds of these marginalized characters are played with strokes of myriad colours to bring forth the strangeness, unpredictability and adventure that life holds.

Hot on the heels of her 2018 This Is Horror Award–winning short story collection Spectral Evidence, critically horror author Gemma Files compiles fifteen more of her most startling recent nightmares—a creepily seductive downward spiral of dark poetry and existential dread, entirely suitable to the slow apocalypse going on all around us. So take your mind off your troubles and send it somewhere the rules still operate, if only to punish those who violate them.

This book contains 101 bite-sized horror stories that are intended to scare and unsettle you. These are real peoples' accounts of the creepy and the occult - of their near-misses with madmen and paranormal entities. Each chapter is a short, stand alone campfire tale, a retelling of a frightening or gruesome incident that has stuck with the teller, something that gives them pause to this day when they find themselves alone in the dark. These stories have been collected with the knowledge that real life is scarier than fiction.

This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies.

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

ഇന്നത്തെ ചുറ്റുപാടിലും സാംഗത്യം നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടിട്ടില്ലാത്ത രാഷ്ട്രീയ ഹാസ്യമായ വിഡ്ഡികളുടെ സ്വർഗ്ഗം എന്ന വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദു ബഷീറിന്റെ ഈ കൃതി മോഡേൺ ക്ലാസിക്കുകളുടെ ഗണത്തിലുള്ളതാണ്

Edgar Allan Poe's early literary works were poetic, but he quickly turned to prose. He worked for several magazines and journals till in January 1845, The Raven was published and became an instant classic. Poe was also an early proponent of the detective story and announced his entry to this genre with the classic short story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'.

Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets. Audible Studios narrator and OBIE winner Will Patton ( Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) gives a tour de force performance of Bukowski's greatest work in his prime.

On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims.

In this collection are updated stories from some of your favorite Valentines.

భార్యాభర్తల మధ్య జరిగే సంభాషణే ఈ కథ. రాత్రిళ్లు కష్టపడి నాటకాలు రాసి , నిద్రలేక తెల్లవారుజామున నిద్రపోతుంటాడు భర్త. అతని తెల్లవారుజాము నిద్రకి భంగం కాకుండా నడుచుకునే భార్య . వారిద్దరి మధ్య జరిగే సంభాషణలు వినండి.

"ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗದ ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣತೆಯನ್ನು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ತುರುಕುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಗದ್ಯ ಲೇಖಕರದು. ವೈದೇಹಿ ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಬರೆದೂ ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣವಾದ ಭಾಷೆ ಸಾಧಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಮಾಸ್ತಿಯವರ ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಥೆ ಕಾರಂತರ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳ ಹಿರಿಮೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿದ್ದ ಈ ಗುಣವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿ ಮೈಗೂಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಥೆಗಾರರಲ್ಲಿ ವೈದೇಹಿ ಒಬ್ಬರು. ಹಾಗೆಂದೇ 'ಒಂದು ಅಪರಾಧ ತನಿಖೆ' ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಕಥೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬದುಕಿನ ವಿವರಗಳನ್ನು ಗ್ರಹಿಸುವ ಇವರ ಪರಿ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆಗೆ ಪಾತ್ರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ."

In "People in Hell Want Ice Water" - an eerie and suspenseful short story about connection, trust, and self-preservation - a random hookup amidst the COVID-19 pandemic brings two lonely people together when they need it most. Colin is an immunocompromised software engineer living alone in Los Angeles when he meets Martha on an early morning walk. She’s irreverent and mysterious, and although Colin knows better than to invite a stranger into his house, it’s been over 40 days since he’s been touched, and he can’t resist the temptation.

नेपोलियन हिल की ऐतिहासिक रचना 'थिंक एंड ग्रो रिच' से प्रेरित यह पुस्तक उन लोगों की ताजा और प्रेरणादायी कहानियों का संग्रह है, जो कठिन समय में डटकर खड़े रहे, और भविष्य की पीढ़ी के प्रेरक नायक बने।.

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