On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life. Situated at the crossroads of prose and poetry, these 33 vignettes explore the rhythm, textures, and micro-moments of lives in motion. Composed with a poet's eye for detail and ear for rhythm, rob mclennan's brief stories play with form and language,...

Robert had gone through the painful experience of heartbreak and had developed a cold heart, making him uninterested in pursuing any romantic relationships. His friend Damian urged him to come out and enjoy life, but Robert was skeptical and not interested in pursuing relationships. However, fate had different plans for Robert when he had a chance encounter with a woman that left him feeling confused and unsure. She had a way of making him feel alive...

In these ten stories, Steve Clark guides us through an urban terrain of relationships--marital and filial, romantic and bitter--exploring loss and longing in a timeless but modern cityscape. A man leaves his wife in bed with the flu and takes a walk through his past, encountering the dead and living, the real and surreal, on his last day alive in Paris.A couple, who've married each other three times, break up at an iconic New York piano bar. A wife...

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...

Love can bring us together, but it can also tear us apart.Dive into ten very different tales all sharing the theme of love; the good, the bad and the hideously ugly. Maternal love leads to obsession, infidelity leads to heartbreak and a prince ends up very disappointed with his lot.You may have seen one or two of these characters before, but never in this light.Twisted perspectives on old tales and new stories whose characters will stay with you forever...To...

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,...

An assortment of "everyday" horrors. Whether psychological or sexual or religious or extraterrestrial, nothing you can't imagine waking up to. 17 short stories, 244 pages.

An anthology of eight short stories in rural settings. This anthology contains: Highway 340, Visiting the Farm Home, Esther's Grandfather, Off the Interstate, Quite a Name, The Old Man and the Dog, Shed, and Two Walls and a Roof.

Readers begin their journey through this collection of three short stories by immersing themselves in the world of eighteen-year-old Cotton Landry. Her loving father makes his living as a gambler, but Cotton dreams of becoming a doctor. She fears she's destined for a career at Guidry's Handi-mart and Bait Shop unless she can permanently leave her rural Louisiana hometown. When all seems lost, Cotton is forced to face the truth and uncover the real...

Lincoln Pratt enjoys a Saturday morning eating breakfast with his family with no concern of losing his home to an eviction. Why would he? As he finishes eating, his father, Evan, gets a phone call from a neighbor seeking help. The rest of the day is filled with loading boxes and moving a family's belongings unexpectedly, the day before Christmas. Is there anything in the middle of despair that can give the family hope and strength? Can beauty really...