A quoi peut bien ressembler la journée d’une petite salope ?Entre allumer un vendeur, se frotter contre un inconnu dans un bus bondé, ou mater sa copine faire l’amour, cette fille ne se refuse aucun plaisir et aime jouer avec le diable.Tous les personnages de ce récit sont âgés de plus de 18 ans.

Kate Mitchell believes life is complicated by too many choices. She marries Dusty for an adventurous life, but perhaps his quiet, nature-loving brother, Alex, may have been a better choice. Prior to his deployment to Afghanistan, Dusty asks Alex to look after Kate. Kate is afraid of the consequences of his request, especially when she is aware loneliness leads to temptation.Within a couple of weeks after Dusty's deployment, Kate's long awaited pregnancy is confirmed. But who is the...

Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility of it all. Other minds lose themselves in strange geometries because they can't comprehend any alternative.Whatever. The rest of us have to get up in the morning, feed the cat, and go to work.The Cozy Cosmic contains 3...

This, the fifth and final volume in the Trinity Tales series, completes a cycle that began with tales from the 1960s. It invites readers to step into the world of Trinity College as it was in the first decade of this century through the reflections of students who attended the university during those years.Within its pages lie the stories of twenty-eight graduates from a mix of diverse backgrounds whose experiences may dispel the myths of what it means to be a 'Trinity student'. Th...

Equip your students with the Student's Literary Toolkit Workbook, a meticulously crafted educational resource.Engage in a deeper analysis of literature with the Student's Literary Toolkit. This comprehensive resource focuses on three iconic short stories (fully annotated): The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, and The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, serving as a bridg...

Based on the historical record of Bessie’s ‘confession’ to witchcraft in sixteenth-century Scotland, the episodic structure of the play shows the many characters and events that supposedly made up the catalogue of her crimes, but which in fact testify to her innocence and goodness. Bessie Dunlop, the Witch o Dalry introduces students to different levels and varieties of Scots and English and contains teaching notes, suggestions for classroom activities, and questions for discussion or writ...

This anthology of poems is an emotional exploration of climate change and its underlying attitudes. The poems lie at the intersection of climate change due to global warming and inner transformation. The poems are meaningful, powerful, and thought-provoking. The reader goes on a journey from despair and chaos, ending in a place of quiet optimism. This is a book for the sensitive, the conscious, the eco-warriors, and the introspective nature lovers among us. Intermixing essays with poetry a...

The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John

I talked to my mother the night she died, losing myself in memories of when we were happiest together. But I held one memory back, and it surfaces now, unbidden. I see a green postbox and a small hand stretching up to its oblong mouth. I am never sure whether that hand is mine. But if not mine, whose?Louise Redmond left Ireland for London before she was twenty. Now, more than two decades later, her heart already breaking from a failing marriage, she is summoned home. Her m...