En este fascinante compilado de cuentos, la imaginación se despliega en todas sus formas, llevando al lector a cuestionar la realidad y a reflexionar sobre lo extraordinario en la vida cotidiana. Los relatos se entrelazan con un hilo común: la capacidad de pensar y llevar a la introspección cada historia. Desde sueños ambiguos hasta debates filosóficos sobre la vida y la muerte, cada cuento ofrece una experiencia única que desafía las percepciones...

The stories in this collection give voice to the history and soul of a rural collective. These people want to belong-to themselves, their families, their communities, and their God. Their motivations, disturbing at times, expose their love, loneliness, and their limits. As one character reminds readers, "We move beside and around and in between each other until something-sometimes good, mostly bad-pushes us together. Then we have to get close,...

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.

In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad Neighbours', Trudy, Alysson, the owner of the property, and most of the street, are victimised, any hour of the...

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...

The Strange Apocrypha Of Mr. Binger is a collection of strange stories and poems the author originally posted on his blog. That blog is titled My Isylumn (proprietor Mr. Binger) – isylumn.wordpress.com. It's still live and the stories are there. Readers can search for them but here they are, all in one place.The tales in this collection are also organized. They might be read chronologically, if a reader so chooses. Even so, they illustrate chaos,...

'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...