"Short Stories For Long Discussions…"Get ready to dive into the most thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating discussions of the year with "After Dinner Conversation - Best Of 2025." This must-have collection features the most compelling philosophy, ethics and social issues as short story fiction from one of the year's top-rated monthly literary magazines. With a diverse range of genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction, and with ...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

An article by USA Today Bestselling author Jaqueline Girdner on how to find your fiction characters and settings in everyday life.

Secret Agent Jodi Atterson, a middle-aged woman, believes the Federal office building where she works has sucked the life out of her. Still, she traverses the often bizarre daily happenings. Welcome to a quintessential G.M. Weger dark comedy-drama. Hope Janitorial won 2nd place in the Central Coast Writer's Fall Fiction Contest. Subsequently, her story was published in the Homestead Review.

Unlock a World of Wisdom with "100 Quotations to Make You Think"Are you ready to be inspired, entertained, and enlightened? Dive into "100 Quotations to Make You Think," a captivating collection of quotes from authors unknown, curated to provoke thought and spark introspection.Why You'll Love This Booklet:Diverse Collection: A perfect blend of serious, funny, and profoundly insightful quotes.Timeless...

A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Camus’s The Fall —Nakamura’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel is here translated into English for the first time and is another high-water mark in this important writer’s career.As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts ...

A young man writes letters in a last gasp at finding meaning in the world.

A collection of amusing short stories about the human condition revealing the absurdity of our existence.Stories appearing in this collection are:The English Patient, Dr Zhivago and the Purposeful StrideThe ProposalThe Imaginary LoverThe College Girl and the Older ManWhat the Power of Love Looks Like on a Monday MorningI Was Young OnceThe Influential Life of Speckly JimThe Fleeting Nature of True FriendshipHow to Snag ...

A child cherishes every second of their grandmother's last week of life in this sensitive portrayal of medical assistance in dying (MAiD).“In this last week, there are seven days.” That's one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Or ten thousand and eighty minutes. Or six hundred four thousand and eight hundred seconds. A child counts every second because this is their grandmother’s last week of life.As friends and family come to call on Flippa—as Gran is fondly k...

“They don’t make plus size spacesuits” is a sci-fi short story collection, featuring an introductory essay. It is written by long-time fat activist, Ali Thompson of Ok2BeFat.This book is a incandescent cry from the heart, a radical turn away from utopian daydreaming of future body perfection to center a fat perspective instead.Ali invites people to experience a fictional version of a few of the many ways that fatphobia can manifest in a life. The ways that the people closest ...

Have you ever been at a loss for words? Tongue-tied in social situations? Do you freeze in terror in work meetings? You're not alone! This guide will give you all the tools to become an easy conversationalist who can talk to anyone.Mary Baker, once painfully shy herself, spent 20 years working in wine hospitality and learned to talk to anyone about anything. She shares all her tips and lessons for not only learning how to talk to people easily, but becoming a conversational star.

Are you in a long distance relationship? Find out how you can make it work!Advanced communication capabilities have given us the power to choose where we can have jobs, but sometimes it just so happens that the one you love can not likewise be transplanted from his or her current station.Should that automatically mean the end of your relationship? Of course not.Distance is not only a spatial quantity but also an emotional one, too. You and your lover might be far fro...