The first Christmas lights bring out bad memories to Martinez and Olga, worsening a father-daughter relationship that was already hard enough. Between them, the young and innocent Nina does the little she can within her reach to unite the family, ruined by grievances of the past, sorrows of the present and obscure perspectives of the future. But, uncanny things happen on the few days that antecede the 25th of December. Father, daughter and granddaughter...

These stories are about being young, getting old, and life in between. An Australian teenage girl in 1970s country NSW waits in a wet, wintery, small New Zealand town for the arrival of her illicit lover, and the decision that will change her life, 'Mary's Story'. Three children are washed out to sea clinging to an upturned table when floods sweep away the family farmhouse in the historically based 'The Flood'. In 'Conditions Apply', an invalid and...

¿Ha habido otros mundos antes que este? En el instante decisivo, ¿elegirías la verdad o la felicidad? ¿Seguirías siendo tú aunque tuvieses que dejar toda tu vida atrás? El dibujante de estrellas recopila tres historias sobre la creación, la identidad y la verdad inspiradas en conceptos clave para varias tradiciones espirituales. Tres micronovelas intensas se adentran en lo más genuinamente humano, porque ¿hay algo más frágil y poderoso...

This collection of short stories-probably my last-is made up of remnants, snippets of dreams, of things that have happened and things that I have only imagined. Hopefully, together they make up a field of flowers even if the flowers are only made up of fabric.

Paving stones, can well be on the path traveled through the journey of life, and mark the passage of time. The only thing to be sure of is that the beginning is at conception and we will not know the ending until the time comes; as it turned out to be for some of the characters in Paving Stones, Edna Taylor's fifth book of short stories. Sometimes the path ahead looks clear with a destination in plain sight, and sometimes-unexpected obstacles are...

'In the tradition of O. Henry but with a modern multicultural perspective, Ms Hand writes with authenticity and empathy about the lives of ordinary people who, we see through her eyes, are anything but ordinary. We meet gossips and lovers, lonely hearts and cads, deep thinkers and daydreamers, fruit sellers and businessmen, students and soldiers, and a host of other characters whose unexceptional lives take unexpected turns. Ms Hand's writing reflects...

Con un lenguaje que navega entre el pragmatismo y la complejidad, las ficciones contenidas en Los cuentos de la armonía plantean conjeturas filosóficas sobre la naturaleza humana a través de inquietantes y sugerentes argumentos. Un joven emprende un extraordinario viaje para cumplir sus deseos más trascendentales; tres hermanas persiguen el valor de la cultura en una mansión surrealista; una pareja explora los sabores sustanciales con los que...

A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her lover's crime might prove his love. Eight new stories to beguile and captivate.

Auch in diesem zweiten Band mit Kurzgeschichten erzählt Christoph von Fircks vom Leben und von Erlebnissen, die in seiner Gedankenwelt zu Geschichten werden. Geschichten, in denen Humor, Nachdenklichkeit und Phantasie miteinander spielen. Locker, authentisch, emotional, mitunter auch satirisch, blickt der Autor auf die Zeit, auf Erinnerungen, in denen das Meer immer Blau ist. Die grafischen Arbeiten von Mareile Bönisch begleiten harmonisch die Texte....

A new novella  by acclaimed author Bradford Morrow about a man who tracks an inexplicable plague of bird deaths, and the mystery's profound effect on his family Hundreds of red-winged blackbirds are discovered scattered, lifeless, around a greenhouse in Warwick, New York. Heaps of common grackles litter the fields of a farm upstate near Stone Ridge. And in Manhattan, a Washington Square restaurant is forced to close its doors when a flock of pigeons...