Modern Short Stories

Das Flugzeug, aus Rom kommend, landet auf der Piste vor Venedig. Die Maschine ist spärlich besetzt.

A Modern-Day Cinderella Holiday Romance One fateful kiss. One relentless billionaire. One curvy girl who’s about to learn that when it comes to love, some risks are worth taking. When curvy and cautious Kaitlyn agrees to a wild dare at a glamorous masked New Year’s Eve party, she never expects it to change her life. Kissing a stranger at midnight was supposed to be a harmless thrill, but the earth-shattering kiss leaves her reeling—and running. She escapes before the handsome mystery man can learn her name, leaving behind only a silver bracelet she doesn’t realize she’s lost. Adam...

Una moglie ama il marito, lo ama così tanto che ogni giorno si porta il suo membro al lavoro, nel cestino del pranzo accanto ai panini e ai biscotti. Un uomo che non mangia arance incomincia a manifestare una profonda e inquietante ossessione per questi frutti e la loro decomposizione. Una donna una mattina si sveglia e scopre che la sua caviglia destra è blu, poi anche l’altra caviglia, poi le gambe.

Three grownup Tales from the Dreamtime in one novella…Open the door and enter the Dreamtime, the world of fairytales, the flower of all that is delightful and mysterious, frightening and amazing.

A Modern Lover was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. A young man returns home to his first love to declare his feelings for her but the moment is lost when the girl will not give herself sexually. This theme was to be explored fully in Lawrence’s novel, Sons and Lovers.

Em "Um suplício moderno", Monteiro Lobato tece uma crítica à máquina administra de seu tempo, à burocracia, bem como à política em sua totalidade. Nele, conta-se a tragicômica história do estafeta Izé Biriba, que a tudo e a todos "sim senhor!" dizia. Achava que um emprego público seria sua salvação, mas logo descobre que não.

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is Washington Irving’s famous short story of the Headless Horseman that is now part of American culture. - Accelerated Reader AR Quiz No. 7115 BL 11.0 AR Pts: 3.0 -The language of almost two hundred years ago has been extensively modernized -End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text -Biographical information on Irving included -Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible -Modern readers will better understand and appreciate one of the first truly American short stories. For more short ...

h2>Unpredictable Romance a clean and wholesome romantic suspense story. Jilted fiancée schemes to win her man back but does she go too far?! Do you enjoy romantic short stories? Then you’ll love Roxanne’s modern love story shorts. After being dumped Connie flees to the solitude of a mountain retreat only to come face-to-face with the other woman on the snow covered trails of Lake Placid. The peaceful surroundings of her winter wonderland are shattered when tempers flare, and angry death threats are made. Connie uses Shawn the local ski bum to make Tori jealous, but her plan backfires ...

“The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” is an Edgar Allan Poe short story that expertly blends his dark perspective with the comic. -This is the original story—only word order and difficult vocabulary have been updated. -End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text. -Biographical information on Edgar Allan Poe is included. -For other classic short stories in easy to understand updated English search for “Simplified for Modern Readers Series.”

Desperate to keep her teenage daughter from running with the wrong crowd again, Elsie Anderson makes the painful decision to leave Seattle for good. For her, solitude is a small price to pay for keeping Sophie out of trouble. Love is the last thing on Elsie’s mind, especially in a small town like Smithfield, Virginia. Alex Becker is the star of Smithfield's firefighting department. He may be a hero, but at night he sees a broken man in the mirror. There was a time when he believed in love, but that all disappeared after he unexpectedly lost his wife late last year. They both need a second...

Quattro grandi classici, senza tempo, della letteratura moderna. Dalla visione distopica del famossimo romanzo "1984" di George Orwell, all'altrettanto famoso, "La fattoria degli animali", dello stesso autore. Per poi arrivare alla saggezza millenaria de "Il Profeta" di Kahlil Gibran ed all'infinita dolcezza de "Il piccolo Principe" di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, uno dei romanzi più conosciuti e letti al mondo. Narrati dalla voce e dall'interpretazione di Alex Martinelli.

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a mental patient tries to get help from a rabbi to smooth over family problems his manic episodes cause.

Within the first Modern Madness collection, Gateway to the Grotesque, the modern-day dark-hearted master of horror Tim Chizmar introduced the world to his quality tales of terror. Now, in The Screaming Virgins, he seeks to usher in a brand-new group of masterful storytellers to shock, disgust, and scare you out of your mind!

In this instance you might have bitten more than you can chew. I'm a little worried about you; you see, not everyone can handle this epic madness and trust me, this madness was not created for everyone. The team at SpookyNinjaKitty sent out 10 copies to supposed horror fans for feedback and by the very next day, six had dropped dead from heart attacks, three committed suicide and the last one has never seen again.

There once was.... A woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox. A man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter. A couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is. A world where you wake up one day and notice that, one by one, people are turning blue. Startling, wry, beguiling and emotionally charged - the stories in Modern Times might be reminiscent of Lydia Davis, Angela Carter and Daisy Johnson, but they are also unlike anything you've heard before.

En los pocos libros de cuentos que escribió, y que caben en un pequeño rincón de la biblioteca de sus lectores incondicionales, recogió y supo expresar - siempre en tercera persona y con un lenguaje muy depurado, transido de sensibilidad poética y con un sentido del ritmo y del suspense tan admirable como envidiable - las experiencias de su corta vida, los recuerdos de su infancia, todo lo que “sucedía, vibraba, se agitaba o moría a su alrededor”.

Fantasy author Ken Altabef lends his unique voice talents to a modern reading of 13 classic tales (and six poems) by Edgar Allan Poe.

What do you do when you see children whose lives are so bad it breaks your heart? One woman took a risk. What she saw was none of her business. But to love...was her business. From the author of a Top-100 Free eBook for Kindle, "Killing of Train-Man Brown" and "The Christmas Mirror: Santa's Last Letter to a Wonderful Child" (number-one in two categories in both the US and UK).

A collection of short stories from such favorites as Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling are joined by others written anonymously in this anthology which will have you scratching your head and listening just a bit longer to discover the key to the mysteries.

Come Together: Bi Ménage Multiplayer Amber is a stressed out pharmaceutical sales rep—peddling her drugs to healthcare facilities and shaking her money maker so people can stay healthy. But, Amber likes to play games. On the weekends, she gets motel rooms and posts hook-up invitations on adult social sites. But, there’s a catch: the guys have to do each other before they can do her. Does that sound fair? Amber thinks so. Warning: this short story is meant for mature adult readers. It features graphic depictions of group sex, ménages, male on male and males on female. The story ...