Loss is an endearing short story written by a mother who lost her youngest daughter in a car wreck at the age of sixteen. The simple, yet touching story of David and his mother Kimberly, eases the reader into the deep subject or illness and death. It offers the reader a hopeful conclusion of life after death.

At a quiet restaurant in an unnamed city a man and a woman sit across from each other. She is distraught. He is quickly drunk. Neither can stop thinking of what they've just seen - a deed so brutal, so terrible as to leave the woman in tears. Was it a moment of meaningless urban violence or was it something more?From the author of the dark short story Hide and Seek and the bestselling novella The Sickroom comes a tale about the things we do for love and the devili...

A hilarious, ingenious plot. Lovable characters. A barrel of laughs.A case of switched identity what would switching your life with your long lost friend feel like? And therein lies the humorous tale of Dhruv, the Inventor. Dhruv switches lives with his friend Mahesh due to a quirk of fate and inadvertently lands in an “I-am-you-and-you-are-me” situation where he doesn’t even know the way to the bathroom in his own house! Bringing up the rear is a crazy family - the harried wife, a philoso...

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence.T...

Travel through Jordan and Michelle's friendship. Jordan has just moved back to her hometown with her daughter and she reflects on major points on her friendship with Michelle.

Females are in short supply in the Sirius solar system. It is no wonder the guys are on edge. A G-Rated trip through some nearby solar systems.

There is nothing quite like the thrill of walking out of a casino a winner. It really doesn't matter how much you win, knowing that you have bested the house is a good feeling. I have been fortunate enough to experience this feeling many times while playing many different games, but it wasn't until a year ago that I realized which game was my game: blackjack.Let me start by saying that I am not intending on the contents of this book being a recipe for success at blackjack. In fact,...

She stared at the back of his head as he led the animal down the bumpy, uneven path. A path that would take her on a journey away from her home, the friends who didn't believe her, and the family who wanted to, but couldn't. A journey that would change her life forever.The Journey Stories, by Cindy Kane, are a compilation of Christmas Eve and Easter vignettes told through the eyes of an out-casted mother fighting for the life of her son.In A Journey we follow Mary and Josep...

Blanchard has been tramping all up and down this valley with a rucksack and a camera on his back for as long as he can remember. And yet there is something, someone else out there. After exactly two short glimpses and a few indistinct tracks in the mud, he's determined to get the shot of a lifetime. A short fantasy story.

STEPHAN EARLE OF BULLONGNE. 1135. An. Reg. 1. Stephan earle of Bullongne, the sonne of Stephan erle of Blois, by his wife Adela, daughter to William Conquerour, came ouer with all speed after the death of his vncle, and tooke vpon him the gouernement of the realme of England, partlie through confidence which he had in the puissance and strength of his brother Theobald earle of Blois, and partlie by the aid of his brother Henrie bishop of Winchester and abbat of Glastenburie, although that ...

Mouser is done. Now what? A story of transition, acceptance, and forgiveness

When Eva's uncle goes back on his word and refuses to reward her the cow he promised in return for her hard work, she is not about to stand back and let him. Her father goes up against her uncle to battle it out in front of the local judge. The judge decides that whoever can answer his three questions correctly will keep the cow. Eva's father wins, but really it was Eva who came up with the answers. When the judge hears about the clever young girl, he asks her to marry him. But he soon dis...