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You are a huge fan of author Lawrence Block and you would do anything to meet him and get his autograph. Would you die for it? That's probably carrying things a bit too far, but hey, this is fiction. Let's see what happens at one of Lawrence Block's book signings...

Herbert George Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction". Discover H. G. Wells best short stories and science fiction classics.

A young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her ‘real’ life dissipates. A grandmother speaks to her granddaughter through the fog of generations. Two lovers divide over alternative meat options. A factory worker fits eyes in companion dolls until she is called on to install her own. The women I know are sharp, absurd, sly, wrong, wry, repressed, hungry, horny, bold, envious, dominating, uncertain, overdetermined, underpaid, bored, smart, crystalizing, themselves.

Der Schulanfang ist ein aufregendes und prägendes Erlebnis für die gesamte Familie. Während die Erwachsenen sich darauf freuen und mit der Planung und Vorbereitung beschäftigt sind, steht den Kindern eine völlig andere Herausforderung bevor, die verständlicherweise sehr beängstigend sein kann. Zum einen der traurige Abschied vom Kindergarten und dem bisher gewohnten Alltag. Zum anderen das große Unbekannte, das die Kinder mit der Schule in Verbindung bringen. So bestehen viele potenzielle Ängste, die ein Kind sehr strapazieren können wie z.B. keinen Anschluss bei den anderen Kindern zu finden oder dass der Schulweg zu beschwerlich wird.

Collected here are the six best stories chosen by the judging panel of the Guardian 4th Estate BAME short story prize 2018. In them you’ll encounter a range of lives and situations: an armless swimmer representing Cultural Revolution China in the Paralympic Games; an encounter between a girl and a misanthropic B&B owner in the wake of the Grenfell tower fire; a schoolgirl helping her grandmother in a Chinese take-away in Hull; the residents of a street united by a piano; a historic town in China invaded by a powerful stench; and a teenage girl struggling with her gender in a small town.

An interesting story about how a boy goes to school with new mittens his mother wants him to protect. To do so he cannot join in a snowball fight with his friends with parents less scrupulous about clothing and the like. The boy ultimately gives in, gets in trouble with his mother, is made to eat alone, attempts to run away much but only makes it to their cold shed.He then gathers his forces to leave for California - wherever that might be.

The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is an 1893 collection of short stories by American writer Mark Twain.

I've always been a shyer girl, especially when it comes to matters of romance and intimacy. A freshman in college, I feel completely cut off from the people around me who party and rabble rouse, lesbians kissing at parties and dancers bumping and grinding....

Ein junges hübsches Hausmädchen, das neu im Schloss Blackbourne ist, fühlt sich dem mysteriösen, aber gutaussehenden Hausheeren hingezogen. Die Regeln besagen aber, dass es nicht schlau ist, ihm nahe zu kommen… und vielleicht sogar tödlich.Themen: Vampir, Paranormal, Übernatürlich, Historisch, Kurzgeschichte, Erotisch, Erwachsen

This collection of stories for children has been written by notable authors from Urdu literature. Most authors in this selection are little known for the stories they have penned for young audiences. From traditional tales to everyday narratives, this compilation offers listeners an insight into stories old and new, with fantasy, humour, and a charming taste of the Urdu language.

After his almost fatal experience on the exoplanet Erid-34, Dr. Neil Jackson wakes up out of a 10-year coma and finds himself in a strange room on Earth. He has very little memory of what happened to him on Erid-34, but he desperately wants to remember. The doctor overseeing his condition, Dr. Sigmund Kline, tries to help him fill in those blanks in his memory. But when NASA officials demand a conference with Neil at NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C., things take a turn for the worse.

From planet Earth, a discovery of a new Earth by NASA scientists. The US Army gets involved in the discovery, and discussions begin on travelling to the new Earth for a test run of a new spaceship travelling at the speed of light. Ten individuals are trained and two spaceships are deployed. But the discoveries on the new Earth are unspeakable. The digital age exists. Alien signals are detected. Battles are fought.

These are the chronicles of the Old and New Testament - from Genesis to the Crucifixion - recounted exclusively through the eyes of a teen in a way that is fresh and highly original.

A Child’s Personal Twilight Zone: Imagining New Possibilities highlights three stories originally published in Reimagining The Twilight Zone: A Young Fan’s Stories, a speculative memoir by Elayne Zalis that explores how The Twilight Zone sparked her imagination when she was a child in Miami in the late 1950s and early ’60s. The young TV fan and the woman she becomes collaborate across space and time to reimagine their favorite episodes of the classic television series. While tapping into a shared memory bank, they retreat to a personal Twilight Zone that nurtures creativity and invention.

Walk away if sexiness is offensive. This isn't the read for you. Josh isn't a redneck. More like a roughneck, except he doesn't work in the oilfields. He works in the Gulf of Mexico. He shrimps for a living. That's what his father did, so that's what he should do, right? Except it isn't what he wants. What he wants is Cassandra Ransom. He can't have her. Girls like her don't date guys like him. He's trash. That's what her mother always used to say to Cassie Ransom about Josh Tamez. That was before the painful breakup. And then Josh walks back into her life. More like he entrenches himself ...

Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features thirteen short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake—superheroes don’t have to just be generic handsome white dudes.

Canadian author Janice Garden Macdonald offers you six tales that will keep you guessing until the end. In one, a woman realizes too late that the body upstairs in her bedroom is not who she thinks it is. A death pact with a loved one has a surprising end.

Two years after the death of their maverick scientist father, two brothers and their obsessive mother embark on a personal odyssey to lay his spirit to rest. An odyssey where science borders on madness, where guilt and loss drives them farther apart, and where each reaches into the boundless depths of space with only one question on their mind.

There are seven erotic romance stories in Desperately Delicious. Included Stories: Stranger Delight - Claire finds herself in a sexy encounter with an unknown stranger Perfect Amy - Amy needs to release her inhibitions before she can find true pleasure Betrayed By Love - Samantha gets hurt by the one she loves Seducing Samantha - Samantha takes revenge with an unlikely partner One Night Stand - Melissa doesn't want commitment Double Delight - Samantha gets a double dose of fun All Tied Up - Amy likes being told what to do

Two rival Motorcycle Clubs. Billionaires. Mafia bosses. Bad girls. Badder boys. Lies. Deceit. Collusion. Defeat. Love. Hate… One man. One woman. Too much hate. Too much love. Faith and Cameron find themselves in the direct spotlight of their fighting families. Families which hope for the death for one another. Romeo and Juliet had nothing on Faith and Cameron. The Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys—pfft. Nothing on the Shaws and the Russos. And yet, they overcame the family rivalry, the deadly competition which led to Faith’s parents death, the criminal ...