Showing results for "The Present" in Literature & Fiction

Adam Diehl is an 11-year-old in crisis. He knows his parents are going to split up - today - and he'd do anything in his power to stop them. If only he could turn back time.... As it turns out, he can. What his parents don't know - what his sister and brother would never suspect - is that Adam is a genius, and the computer he stares at all day has opened a gateway to knowledge beyond our comprehension. But not Adam's. Now, he has a plan. He's going to repeat this day over and over until he finds the version of it that ends with his parents staying together.

Ashton is a typical small town where everyone knows everyone else and the pace of life is predictable. No one would suspect that Ashton has drawn powerful demonic beings to it. Planning to gain control of the town - and eventually the world - these evil forces are looking for allies. When Pastor Young and the town's newspaper reporter begin to discover this dark plan, they turn to God for guidance, but others have already succumbed to temptation.

HIS PREGNANT ENEMY BRIDE An accidental pregnancy, wed for his heir, Greek billionaire romance from Harlequin Presents author Michelle Smart. Wed for her secret… on the enemy's terms! The Tsalikis and the Antoniadises: the two most powerful families in the glittering Aegean—and the bitterest...

A SEGA Production: Join Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon, and Charmy Bee as the Chaotix Detective Agency gets tapped to solve their biggest mystery yet! Find out what kind of trouble Sonic is getting into this time, and how his investigator friends get roped in on this new audio adventure.

私たちはたくさんの愛を贈られて生きている。この世に生まれて初めてもらう「名前」。放課後の「初キス」。女友達からの「ウェディングヴェール」。子供が描いた「家族の絵」――。

In a world marked by transience, envy, and rootlessness, committing to staying put is a radical, unusual act. Hungry for rootedness, Courtney Ellis and her family decided to truly commit to a place and a people God had given them for a season, to grow some deep roots and discover what it would mean to be “all in.” Through winsome storytelling, Courtney demonstrates that there is tremendous growth when we stop holding a community at arms’ length and open ourselves to the blessing of stability, the grace of limits, and the joy of presence.

Johanna Lindsey brings back her popular Malory family in this special holiday story, bringing her scandalous Malorys face-to-face with their distant gypsy kin. Fans will get a chance to see how it all started as their mysterious grandmother's gypsy kin comes to them for help, and another Malory falls head-over-heels for a member of the tribe.

Wonder Sutton found the courage to leave a dead end relationship and start life over, but she left with more than unresolved trauma. She left with a bad habit. A habit that's going to do more harm than good, especially when it's the reason she becomes a witness to a horrendous crime. Wilde Hunter doesn't care about anyone but himself. He dubs himself a jerk and couldn't care less how anyone feels about him or his actions. When the opportunity to get underneath the skin of someone he loathes arises, Wilde refuses to let the moment go to waste.

BEFORE SAM SPADE This is not just an audiobook version of the short story. Its multi-layered story draws inspiration from Dashiell Hammett’s own rich legacy of detective stories. The series is not epic in scale, with vast landscapes and multiple points of view. It is a personal story of redemption. The series belongs to The Op. Except in episodes where he recounts the exploits of an associate, The Op is in every scene. The viewer only knows what he knows, what he sees, staying true to the narrative style of the stories. Each case unfolds as it happens. But ultimately, the story is not about ...

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful...

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a...

Ripped from the pages of HORROR STORIES magazine and our PULP Classics podcast comes a tale beyond imagination. Complete for listening terror! Written by Hugh B. Cave for HORROR STORIES (February, 1935) Produced and Directed by Keith Brian Shaw [human] Our A.I. Repertory Theater Cast Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Stone Narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Wendt Paul Lawton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phil Bishop Mowry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zack Emerson Dr. Jonathan Graham . . . . . . . . ...

Someone is changing all the streetlights in Pepper Heights, Cleveland. The color of nighttime is shifting. Everyone thinks they know what happened at the Pepper Heights Zoo… But do they, really? Dane, a spun-out musician spending the winter in Cleveland, Ohio, has two main goals: keeping his job at the Pepper Heights Zoo and trying not to waste all his time on Grindr. What he doesn’t expect is to get swept into a story about dreams, about forevers, about flickering lights, about unexplained deaths, about relentless change, and about the parts of ourselves that we wish other people knew to ...

WKGF Presents The Witching Hour is a fully scripted podcast series disguised as a late-night radio call-in show from the 80s, hosted by the fun-loving rock 'n roll DJ Max Thorn, straight from the corner booth at WKGF Bakersfield. Each episodes blends character-driven storytelling with a nostalgic feel, as Max opens the phone lines to listeners desperate to share their brushes with the bizarre - from haunted arcades and cursed VHS cassettes to impossible memories and vanishing children. Some calls are intense, some are absurd, some seem to hit a little too close to home, but Max wants to hear ...

Loreen Thigpen has a history of making bad decisions. But stealing Josh Montgomery’s tour bus from the Texas prison garage to go see her dying mom in Tennessee might be the worst decision ever.

David Timson talks about Charles Dickens, much loved for his great contribution to classic English Literature.

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...

In the spring of 2020, as theatres all over the world were shut down due to the pandemic, Tina Packer, actress, director, legendary expert on Shakespeare had an idea. Why not put out a series of webinars to help raise money for Shakespeare & Company, the world-renowned theatre company she founded? Once a week for six weeks, Tina looked at Shakespeare's plays through a different lens - philosophical, poetical, physical, political, psychological, and personal.

Join Joshua as he shares original biweekly serialized stories. Every other week, you can expect short speculative fiction stories ranging from sci-fi and fantasy to historical settings. He dedicated to sharing human stories by humans. he employs a variety of AI and automated tools to share these stories but the stories are always completely written by humans and for humans. He strongly believes storytelling in an inherently human act and can never be truly done by technology. Please support genuine, human made products whenever possible.

We are a group of friends based in the UK and we play Tabletop RPGs. We are all starting out on our journey and we will get things wrong. Our guiding principle is to have fun first. We currently play PF2e and Call of Cthulhu. These first episodes will be scrappy but we are all on a journey.Cover art photo provided by galxrax rax on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@galxrax?utm_source=spreaker&utm_medium=referral