Modern Short Stories

Ce sont trois contes écrits par Valérie Bonenfant, lus par Fabienne Prost. Le conte J’habite une flaque d’eau est illustré de façon sonore par Julien Jammes, designer sonore. La mer a des boutons : Alerte ! La mer est malade, elle est pleine de boutons blancs sur son eau de surface, mais que lui arrive t-il ? Elle n’est pas bien du tout. Peut-on la sauver ? L’oiseau et le sac : Un conte, où parfois le vent fait voler de drôles d’oiseaux. Vous n’en avez jamais vus ? Mais, si, ils sont colorés, transparents et pas toujours propres.

With Grant Stanley dead, dragon omega Aiden Hunt is ready to settle down with his two alphas and raise their daughter Emma. He's finally found the love and family he's always wanted. But when vampires attack their secluded home, Aiden realizes Grant wasn't acting alone. Aiden's father is an asshole with lawyers. He sold Aiden's first heat to the highest bidder, and now he's trying to take Emma from her fathers--at any cost. Jordan, one of Aiden's alphas, is ready to spill some blood in retribution, but Zach Knight has the best lawyers in the city to fight back. Aiden knows a legal battle ...

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.

In *A Quick Lunch…The Date That Ended Before Dessert*, the narrator meets a man she connected with online. After several good phone conversations, they plan to meet at a restaurant, but an hour before, he changes the location to a bar he knows. Despite the awkward last-minute change, she goes along with it. At the bar, they wait over an hour for the kitchen to open, and just as the food arrives, he abruptly ends the date, paying the bill while she’s away for a brief moment.

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 ...

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).

>"Modern Man Is Ultra Quick" is a short-story about ugliness and beauty in our surroundings - and about attachment and alienation, about trying to find one's place. We experience Leicester through the eyes of Krystof, a hardworking East-European immigrant, but as it turns out, he is not the only one feeling estranged and disenchanted. Litcast is selected short fiction.

“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.”

He would do anything to keep her safe. Aaron has had his eye on his little next door neighbor for months. He's close to twice her age though, so he's been holding himself back from claiming her. That hasn't stopped him from watching over her and making sure that she's safe. When he finds out that someone else is trying to take her from him, he decides that it's time to step up and let the world know that she belongs to him. He's going to stake his claim and show that Annalise is his to protect. *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're ...

"Break - Modern Society" is a kind of take on the possibilities available for us when the pressure gets too much. You will see how it really works and is quite simple. Though at times we really do need to use our imaginations and adapt. Timing is all important and the kind of break you take sometimes reflects the situations and circumstances that you find yourself involved in. No one needs to know it can become a habit you do or from the outside a human being handling life.

I'm a man in my thirties, and she can't be more than twenty years old, but that doesn't stop me from wanting the little college student who's selling admission tickets at the zoo for the summer. As a zookeeper, my days are lived in solitude. It's just me and the animals, but Sabrina has me ready to brave the jungle of the real world for her. I'll do whatever it takes to protect her, even if it means keeping my distance and watching her from afar. Because Sabrina is mine, whether she realizes it or not. Obsessive, possessive and over the top, these men will do anything to get the women they ...