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This novella is based on the following principle: the same paragraph introduces three short stories each with a different ending. The business class cabin in a plane, a violent and windy rainstorm, a man in his seat with the adjoining seat unoccupied. Who is going to come and sit next to him and what will be the chain of events from then on? All that remains is to kindly ask you to turn off your mobile phones, turn down the main lights in your room and to wish you a pleasant moment of relaxation in our company. The Contract. Fear of Flying Snow in New York The author: Jacques Vandroux, who ...

The Seed of McCoy written by Jack London: The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, it seemed to him that he saw a dim, almost indiscernible haze. It was more like an illusion, like a blurring film that had spread abruptly over his eyes.

Ein Betrunkener wird vom Nebel verschluckt. Ein Jüngling, der den Ansprüchen des Vaters nicht genügt, sucht umsonst Trost auf einer wilden Party. Ein 50-Jähriger wird durch den Tod seines ehemaligen Lehrers aus der Bahn geworfen. Ein gelangweilter Sohn aus reichem Hause meldet sich zum Kriegsdienst. Zwei Brüder haben nur noch sich und ihre Fracks, in denen sie von einer Feier zur nächsten geraten. Und ein Künstler muss in seinem Atelier erst intensiv gesucht und dann samt seiner absonderlichen Theorien ertragen werden.

These Small Adventures Vol. 2 is the awaited sequel to These Small Adventures. With eleven new stories that bring forth new adventures, you will always be surprised by what comes next.

Prologue. Arran owns the amazing popular strawberry field shop in Central Park in New York, with the shop door zooming as people walk in and the stars are the key with many funny happy moments to cheer your heart keeping you well entertained from the start making you laugh aloud. Jason gives Arran a gift with him having a hot experience that burns his fingers, and the wristbands do more than he thinks. Arran misses his brother Bob, he had died twenty-eight years ago unconditionally. Do the wristbands help to fetch Arran’s brother Bob back alive with help from the stars in the sky? The ...

En una España distópica donde los recuerdos se han convertido en mercancías, el gobierno controla a la población borrando y reescribiendo historias personales, moldeando la identidad de los ciudadanos a su conveniencia. En este mundo opresivo, un grupo clandestino de hackers conocidos como "Los Olvidados" se alza contra el régimen, decidido a descubrir la verdad oculta detrás del comercio de memorias. Mientras se infiltran en las redes más profundas del estado, "Los Olvidados" – liderados por Carmen, Emilio, Raúl, Lucía, y el Dr. Herrero – se enfrentan a una conspiración que ...

Rayner the middle years is the sequel to ‘Rayner the early years’ a fictional biography of arguably the most popular Scotland Yard detective being the principle subject in the Victorian Detective’s Casebook series by the same author. In the second part of the story, Richard Rayner has left Oxford and joined the Metropolitan Police only to find his ambition to be a detective is not as easy as he had once thought. A number of incidents tend to obstruct his career path, including working for a Sergeant who has an unusual way of disciplining his men, and having to face false accusations ...

Book 2: The billionaire Mengistu is running a competition with a ten million dollar prize fund: 60 minutes, 60 players, no rules, a straight fight to the death. Massacre of the Sixty attracts only the depraved and psychotic.. Can Holly Holloway survive the carnage to discover more about the shadowy agency "The Hollow Falx"? It's gonna be brutal, it's gonna be violent, it's what she's trained for.

An action filled short story where a couple opens a hotel on Catalina Island and it becomes popular with upscale visitors. Two couples take advantage and become unwelcome. It turns out that they are mob connected and take offense at being ejected. The resulting action encompasses the hotel, beach and most of the harbor. Not to be missed. Action at its finest.

This short story is a recounting of how an eastern dude shows up in a western town, desiring that the local gunfighter educate him in the art of becoming a gunslinger. The resulting action is more than he bargained for.

In this second of two short stories a man who loses his son to Somali pirates, undertakes a second personal mission, now sanctioned by a government agency, to wreak as much havoc on the Somali pirate community as humanly possible. Lots of action.

This is the first of two short stories about a man whose son was killed by pirates, and his quest to seek vengeance against the Somali pirate community for his loss. The story is very Old Testament in its 'eye for an eye' commitment to bringing personal retribution to any pirates who will come out to challenge him and his crew. Lots of action.

This is a selection of short stories each containing a seed of wonder. Apocalyptic stories, hopeful stories, stories of alternative realities all await your enjoyment.

Read of one of Ulysses' adventures as he struggles with the elements, his emotions and the gods to complete his king's commission. Ulysses' questions his gods motives for sending him on his epic voyage when a storm threatens to kill them all.

John's life would be considered normal. He has a successful business and a loving relationship. Suddenly, he finds himself on a beach, alone and confused. One moment he is watching Pirates bury treasure and the next it is gone. He is home again. Thinking he has too much stress in his life he fly's to the Bahamas to relax. On display in a museum is the necklace he saw on "the island", which takes him on the the wonderful adventure.

For the first time ever, this collection of short stories by Gary Troia brings together, in chronological order stories and memoirs from Spanish Yarns and Beyond, English Yarns and Beyond and A Bricklayer’s Tales into one complete volume. "Excellent! A collection of short stories about depression, alcoholism and drug use. Very compelling reading. I read this short story collection all in one go." (Maria, Goodreads.) A Bricklayer's Tales is the ultimate "I hate this job" story, written as a collection of short stories and memoirs, each one revealing a snapshot in the life of Ray. Troia ...

A Bricklayer’s Tales: A Collection of Short Stories and Memoirs by Gary Troia is a raw, darkly humorous exploration of working-class struggles, self-destruction, and creative frustration. Told through the eyes of Ray Dennis—Troia’s disillusioned alter ego—these gritty, unflinching stories dive into the realities of depression, alcoholism, drug use, and the suffocating monotony of low-paid labour. From bleak construction sites to psychedelic escapes, each tale captures the highs and lows of a man trapped between artistic ambition and brutal wage slavery. Whether facing deportation in...

Cassidy is a legendary soldier in the Corps of Royal Engineers – courageous, fiery and full of Irish charm, he has been known to turn even Brigadier-Generals trembling and submissive. During his temporary absence from the plains of Flanders, he meets our narrator – a higher-ranking officer who is in awe of Cassidy’s formidable reputation – and during their break from action, they share incredible stories about life on the front.

The title story in this wry collection concerns acquaintances Staunton and Barstow, who witness a bizarre spectacle outside a bar in an Austrian village. A thin-lipped aristocrat steps down from his plush horse-drawn vehicle, and commences formidable target-practice on some playing cards – the Five of Hearts and the Five of Spades. Barstow remains utterly still during this peculiar display, and it emerges that he has witnessed this on six consecutive days – the shooter is the husband of his mistress, and he is challenging Barstow to a duel. Further stories of love, revenge, jealousy and...

A fascinating collection of tales, including stories related by members of a select club consisting of an actor, a barrister, a doctor, a soldier, a writer and an ‘ordinary man’. Each member of this club is obliged to entertain his fellows to dinner from time to time, after which he relates a story connected with his profession or trade – the only penalty is a donation to a worthy charity should he fail to keep his audience awake. Readers of these excellent stories may rest assured that there is no such danger.