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...

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.

From the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, a glimpse of college life on the eve of graduation.It's the last day of the academic year, and the students of a small, mid-western university are preparing for a bacchanalian celebration called Crazy Night. Our chaperone for the evening is Phil, a freshman on the verge of flunking out, who roves the fraternities in search of beer, women, and the meaning of life. It's just after the Great Crash, with Prohibit...

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 ...

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...

Gems is a series of books written specifically for struggling girl readers. Kim isn't having the best day. She's just had her braces fitted and they are landing her in a lot of trouble. As if the school bullies weren't enough, a crowd of cats chase her home! She is cowering in front of the claws, but suddenly she realise she can talk to her feline foes.Can Kim use her new braces to an advantage? Will the cats be fluffy friends or enemies?

So many stories to be told and so many words to do it in. Not every story need be in prose, with sentences and paragraphs and an intro-body-conclusion structure. Some stories are better this way- narrated in verse and sang as poetry.

The Fairy with the Broken Wings is a magical, fantasy adventure, embarked by an eight-year-old as she closes her mind to the surrounding world and its conflicts and opens the door of her imagination. Join Esperanza as she ventures through the Underground, the Blue River, the Whistle-Blowing Forest and the Crystal Mountain and meet the characters she encounters on the way. This is a story of determination, resourcefulness, love and unconditional trust.