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A short story inspired by David Bowie's song "Space Oddity"

A short story inspired by the Beatles' song "Rocky Raccoon".

Ever hear a song and make up a story to go with it? Based on Lou Reed's "Perfect Day".

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is the world’s most recognized anime and manga series, having entertained millions of fans across the globe. The legendary rivalry of the last two full blooded Saiya-jins, Goku and Vegeta, is the iconic example of a lifelong conflict that inspires fans to burst through their own personal limits.With a foreword by Ryo Horikawa, the Japanese voice of Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z “It’s Over 9,000!” When Worldviews Collide is the first e-book to ...

The Eternal Husband (The Permanent Husband) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1870 in Zarya magazine. The novella's plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky, the husband of his deceased former lover.[Analysis]The story starts in medias res. Details about Velchaninov's adulterous past are revealed gradually.The novel is comparable to a tragicomedy. T...

Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them. From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing. Heather Smythe Pretty. Shy. About as lapsed as a Catholic can get. Heather's trapped in the a cult of killer succubi with a taste for East Hollywood douches. ("High Times at the Sixth Annual Succubus Sisters Garage and Bake Sale") Amanda Hackensack

A hunting trip goes dangerously awry for Allan Quatermain and his son in this thrilling classic adventure tale by the author of King Solomon's Mines.The famous big game hunter and adventurer Allan Quatermain takes his teenage son Harry to hunt for buffalo in the wilderness of Africa. But their plans change when three lions attack their party. Now they are out for vengeance . . .

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of ...

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”--- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan IlyichThe Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia.