In einem Brief an seine Geliebte, die fern in Rom weilt, gesteht ein vermeintlich wohlhabender Geschäftsmann, dass er vor dem Nichts steht und dass er nur noch einen Ausweg sieht: Selbstmord. Er beginnt, die Umstände eines begangenen Verbrechens zu beschreiben, gerät in Bekenntnisse, lässt Lebenslügen durchscheinen, gibt immer mehr von sich preis, kommt buchstäblich auf Gott, die Welt und den Sinn zu sprechen. Aber was in seinen Bekenntnissen ist echt und was lediglich Pose? Und warum verz...

Mit Vehemenz und Sprachwitz – Unbekannte Glanzstücke von Charles Dickens // „Zwischen uns beiden sei’s gesagt: bewunderungswürdig!“, frohlockt Charles Dickens in einem Brief an einen Freund und kann sich in dieser Äußerung der Begeisterung über einen eigenen Text, den er gerade für seine Zeitschrift „Household Words“ geschrieben hat, nicht enthalten. Dickens war zeitlebens ein journalistischer Schriftsteller, verdankte seinen frühen Erfolg den Skizzen und Erzählungen, die er in Zeitungen v...

"Short Stories For Long Discussions…"Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a (501(c)(3) nonprofit that publishes a monthly short fiction literary magazine.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...

TMLR is becoming a very popular indirect method of revascularization which will probably become yet another accepted technique for treating coronary artery disease. The articles included in this publication have all been written by experts and not only describe the technique itself but also give the first comprehensive survey on the pathological, physiological, laser technological and surgical basis necessary to understand this approach. Physicians who treat patients with coronary artery d...

This instructional atlas addresses the issues of patient selection, and looks at how to choose the appropriate implant design. It also provides step-by-step instructions for the technique of implantation through detailed illustrations. Coverage includes diagnosis, determination of the treatment plan, surgical principles, surgical procedure, patient follow-up and care.

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, Here I Am, Laughing with Boers;...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListHome For The Holidays:...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - July 2022Acceptance: A man sinking in the mud refuses help.I Never: A man of diminished mental capacity is accused of murder when he's found holding the bloody knife.Sort of Polarity: A new disease hits the earth that and causes very selective blindness in humanity.Reginald's Party: A female interloper crashes an "e...

Garret Jansen is a young introspective infantryman who has just arrived as a Replacement in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in the winter of 1945. He is assigned to the 311th Infantry Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division (aka the 78th Lightning Division). Jansen is a simple farm boy with an 8th-grade education from South Dakota who grew up during The Great Depression. What Jansen does not know is that he was about to be thrust into one of the most pivotal battles of the later st...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How shou...

Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord.The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers's "To the Measures Fall" is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical "The Sleep," Caitlin...

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren G...