Showing results for "Science-fiction" in Short Stories

A young school teacher learns about strange lights in a foreboding marsh; a nurse in a remote outport visits the baby she delivered weeks before to find a devastating change; a woman meets a mysterious funeral procession late one evening; a musician falls thrall to a group of strange little people and can’t stop playing. The stories in Spirited Away are populated by the fairy-led, by changelings, by people who stray onto fairy turf and experience unnerving events.

This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen best-selling middle-grade authors - including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie, and Jennifer A. Nielsen - who have created original short stories and modern-day fairy tales based on the lives and dreams of children they have met who all have two things in common: They have very big hopes and dreams, and they are all cancer patients.

Sambola hat einen wichtigen Auftrag von seinem König bekommen. Er soll durch seine Geschichten die Herzen der Menschen für die Naturwesen wieder öffnen. Und in dieser Hinsicht ist dieses Buch etwas Besonders. Da es - wie Sambola sagt - nur in die Hände von denjenigen gelangt, die an sie glauben und wissen, dass sie existieren. Zehn wunderbare Geschichten aus dem Reich der Naturwesen und ihre Beziehung mit Menschen erzählen, von Liebe, Weisheit, Vergebung, Annehmen, Toleranz und Freundschaft.

Así empieza este apasionante relato en que el protagonista, mister Legrand, encuentra un escarabajo de color dorado. A partir de ese momento se comportará de una manera extraña, lo que hace pensar a los que le rodean, que se está volviendo loco.

¿Te imaginas que al canturrear una canción de pronto te trasladaras a otro mundo? ¿Y que en ese mundo fueras una mascota? Pues eso es lo que le sucede a Ismael: un día está en su casa y, al minuto siguiente, en una jaula con una chica llamada Sofía.

It's not easy being the only kid in your class who doesn't have six arms and an extra eye in the middle of your forehead. But that's the situation Jacob faces when his dad takes him to the planet Kwarkis. The situation gets worse when Jacob makes a ghastly blunder that just may cost him the thing he loves most.