"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 2024." 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 ...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsDelight 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 contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights and defining ...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 20024" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of family relationships. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListEleven Things I Have Left Now That My Daughter Is Gone: P...

HOW A SIMPLE GUIDE CAN HELP YOU AVOID THE MISTAKES THAT EVEN 99% OF THE MOST CARING AND INFORMED MOTHERS MAKE AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR CHILDREN. THE BEST PEDIATRICIANS AND OBSTETRICIANS THAT HAVE GRADUATED FROM CAMBRIDGE WERE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY THESE TRICKS... As you know, becoming a mother is the most beautiful experience in the life of women, and every mother wants the best for her children!Doubt, apprehension and anxiety can upset these magical moments, thus ruining the beginning of...

In this book, author Risa Nye doesn't tell you how to write your life story--she shows you how she did it, and takes you through the easy-to-manage strategy she cooked up for her year-long blog experiment, Zero to Sixty in One Year. By breaking it all down into manageable sections, with examples from each of her six decades of stories, she takes the anxiety out of starting off with a blank page or screen. With tips on getting started, a variety of ways to refresh your memory, and those pee...

Come And Heal With Me. Let's Speak From Our Hearts. The Past Will Never Break You

This is a sample poem from my book. It means alot cause it allows me to express how i am feeling.Who I AmI am an eagle flying high in the sky,Freely flying far and wide to find that one true love,Saving one from destruction,Cleaning up after a mess,I am an author of a novel,Writing a story that will last a lifetime,I am the one you come to when you need a helping hand,I am the one you turn to for guidance in life,I am ...

Teeny Tiny Witch is a little witch who loves to wear red, and has trouble with spells. She goes to the Academy for Young Witches and her mishaps with spell-casting gets her into trouble with the head mistress, Miss Pillinger who reports everything to the Icy Witch Queen. Everyone on Witch Island is afraid of her.She and her mother are hopeful as she sets off to the academy; she's been given one more chance to do it right. Will she pass her exams? But what will the Icy Witch Queen d...

When the lights go out and you pull the covers up to your neck, do you lie there listening to something that sounds like footsteps in the hall? Do you glimpse a mist out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn your head to look, nothing is there? Are those strange noises you hear, the knocks and bangs, just the house settling, or is it something more sinister?Some might say you're crazy, but many of us believe.Within these pages are true ghost stories. Many of the circ...

“What smart, memorable, inventive stories these are—skilled, insightful, full of heart.”—Joan Silber, author of Ideas of HeavenAlethea Black's deeply moving and wholly original debut features a coterie of memorable characters who have reached emotional crossroads in their lives. Brimming with humor, irony, and insights about the unpredictable nature of life, the unbearable beauty of fate, and the power that one moment, or one decision, can have to transfor...

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of contemporary fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a c...

This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love between a mother and a daughter” (Isaac Mizrahi).Liz Scheier’s mother was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued her—a masterful liar. On an otherwise uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen, her...