Travel Short Stories

When Clare picks up an odd stone, she never expects to be...transported? Hundreds of years in the past and thousands of miles away, Clare is lost. Will her new friends Andrew and Harold Marshall help her to find the way back, even if they do not believe her? And more importantly, can she trust these strangers?

El viaje y la relacion de pareja convergen en un mismo fin: la despedida. Con los titubeos y dificultades de toda ruptura o encuentro amoroso, los personajes de estas historias conducen sus relaciones de pareja hacia un terreno extremo mas alla del cual solo restan el olvido, la desesperanza y la violencia. Hay, entre sus variados protagonistas, jovenes que se dicen adios por indecision, un carabinero que golpea con brutalidad a su mujer tras reprimir una manifestacion contra la dictadura militar en Chile, una madre que maltrata a su hijo.

With the domination of Thorn looming over the land, and James nowhere to be found, the Underground seeks a way to topple the new King. With rumors of a vanishing castle appearing intermittently throughout the world, Elder Alanna takes it upon herself to investigate. What she discovers grants her both terror and hope. This is a short story set between books 11 and 12 of the Sage Saga, detailing unforeseen events that will shake the foundations of the Sage Saga forever.

This audiobook takes you into eight different stories from my travel around the world. These histories describe the situations as an intimate diary. The events recounted in these stories are completely true.

Timothy Travels considered himself the luckiest person in the world. He wanted nothing more than to go on a grand adventure. Little did he know, he was about to embark upon a journey that would change his life forever. On the day of his departure, he received a gift from a stranger that set him on an adventure in a world he never imagined. An adventure that challenged his luck every step of the way. Timothy would never be the same.

Through Their Lenses is a collection of 29 award-winning short stories by tweens. These stories encompass a wide range of genres, inviting listeners to explore a wealth of important themes passionately crafted by these young writers, from a girl going on a quest to release a curse bestowed on her by a witch to a guy trying to escape after being stranded in a different time.

Med sina drömmars kraft reser Fiona till Surrealia och får viktiga lärdomar om livet. Fiona Orchard är en vanlig 7-årig tjej som bor med sina föräldrar Lars och Ling-Ling i Sydney. Fiona har dock en mycket livlig fantasi som manifesteras i form av verklighetstrogna drömmar där hon har kontroll.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - June 2022 The Money Box: A mysterious black box gives its users "unearned" money, but at what price? The Memory Thief: Alice is kidnapped, her mind is downloaded to the cloud, and, due to space limitations, her boyfriend must decide what memories make it into her new body. Tikkun Olam: A retired lawyer tries to help an at-risk youth, but feels she has failed him. Sow: A pilot is tasked with "seeding" a distant planet with the codes to give rise to future humans, at the expense of the planet's natural evolutionary process. A Dragon's Perspective: A ...

Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that make your brain think deeply but also have you laughing ...

This anthology explores the fourth dimension by taking a step past the known into the unknown.

A collection of three short stories and two novellas written between 1897 and 1898. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories.

Året är 2192 och Diah Lubis är den personliga kocken till prinsessan Irulan Ramahandran från det malaysiska rymdriket. Utrustad med en bärbar maskhålgenerator reser Diah genom tid och rum för att lära sig att göra de bästa och mest exotiska rätterna i solsystemet. Under sin jakt på kulinarisk perfektion möter Diah drakar, troll och förändrade tidslinjer. Kommer Diah och hennes lojala vän, Finkerbelle Moderfen, att lyckas med sina uppdrag?

The reenactment of the iconic battle of the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, is in its second day, and the paramedics at Aid Station Three have seen their share of cuts and scrapes and heat exhaustion. With 20 minutes until the start of the next battle scenario, Eric, the senior EMT, sends the minor injury cases on their way. Suddenly, a cannon shot booms, followed by more in quick succession, followed by thunder. Has the battle started early? Strangely, it sounds more like the sounds of battle are coming from the actual site of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Taking a trip is like a having a love affair: You arrive at your destination liberated from the mundane details of ordinary life, free to shuck off your inhibitions and awaken to the landscape of the senses. In Foreign Affairs, writers from around the globe explore the romance of travel in 21 explicit stories set in evocative locales, including Rome, Brussels, Tokyo, St. Lucia, Vietnam, and Santorini. Contributors include Opal Palmer Adisa, Lisabet Sarai, and Linda Jaivin (author of the best seller Eat Me).

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.

She's a no-holds-barred, kick-butt, don't-cover-the-ugly-parts archaeologist. History wants to teach her a lesson. Caitlin lands hard on the decks of an infamous ship - with only 24 hours before it sinks, and John is missing. Trapped in 1912 on the Titanic, sand is slipping through the hourglass as she tries to jump ship before it plunges to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - November 2021 Rose-tinted Glasses: Two children race to get glasses that allow adults to see the magical world around them to the Fairytale Fellowship before it's too late. Beyond Rose Street: Three boys cast a spell that opens a portal to a "new life," but something goes horribly wrong. Exodus: A Jewish family traveling through space to colonize a new world is woken by the AI so they can celebrate Passover. Have A Nice Eternity!™: Science has discovered that there is an eternal afterlife, and "Gates Of Heaven" is here to sell you the tools to ...

Travel writing takes an erotic twist with these 24 tales of sexual adventure. Written to satisfy wanderlust or arouse it, Erotic Travel Tales offers explicit erotic fiction set in evocative locales, including Milan, Prague, Paris, New Orleans, San Francisco, and more. Such established sex writers as Maxim Jakubowski (the editor of Mammoth Book of Erotica), Helena Settimana, Christopher Hart, Alison Tyler, Thomas S. Roche, and M. Christian are featured.

Isn’t it always the way? Your time machine crash lands in 18th-century Europe, and the one man who might be able to fix it - renowned watchmaker Gaston Lemaitre - is just about to have his head chopped off, courtesy of Madame La Guillotine. Fembot Sally heads to Paris, where the Reign of Terror is in full swing. Will she be able to rescue Citizen Lemaitre, or will she end up with her own head on the block?

The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century's worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology covers millions of years of Earth's history - from the age of the dinosaurs to strange and fascinating futures, through to the end of Time itself.