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.

“If you enjoy your cozy mysteries with a good shot of romance, and a love triangle with a sexy bad boy and a Southern gentleman in the mix, then you will love this. Very reminiscent of the Stephanie Plum books, but the laughs are louder, the romance is sexier and there is a great murder mystery to top it off.” Bella McGuire, Cozy Mystery Book ReviewsSavannah Martin has always been a good girl, doing what was expected and fully expecting life to fall into place in i...

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...

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 ...

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...

A collection of poetry about heartbreak, family, homesickness, and self-discovery—six years in the making. Writing poems instead of keeping a diary, these were the ones worth saving.

Dream World by R. A. Lafferty is a dazzling burst of imagination that bends reality, flips logic on its head, and invites readers into a universe where the impossible feels strangely inevitable. Known for his wildly inventive storytelling, Lafferty crafts a tale that is playful on the surface yet profoundly philosophical underneath.In this extraordinary narrative, dreams are not mere illusions of sleep—they are realms of power, influence, and start...

Nineteen year old Maya Oakley has lived in the always hustling and bustling of Chicago for nearly four years of her life and gladly calls it home living in a more than decades old hotel over on the south side of downtown. While working as a conductor trainee on the Illinois Northern Railroad's ex CNW Omaha sub, she and her engineer have a run in with what they think is just a stranded car on the tracks but unfortunately turns out to be a whole lot worse. Meanwhile, back at home, things are...

The godmother has never fitted in and no-one really wanted her at Dawn's christening. But all she wanted was to show her that there's more to life than pink...

An unordinary night in the life of an ordinary girl.A night that will change not just her life but the life's of many others.