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81) Guasaapp
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¿Qué ocurre cuando se malinterpreta un mensaje en el teléfono móvil? ¿O cuando enviamos algo de lo que al día siguiente nos podríamos arrepentir... por culpa de un dedazo? Eso y más es lo que les ocurre a los protagonistas de esta novela corta, Merche, Javier y otros muchos, que se ven envueltos en una complicada cadena de acontecimientos por culpa de un mensaje mal interpretado.
En Guasaapp, Miguel Mendaza relata de una manera humorística...
82) Viva Grump!
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This dark comedy of brutality and betrayal is a bawdy romp through the palaces and prisons of 18th century Europe and is thus full of swearing, sword fighting and bad sex. Our hero Eduardo Lasagne - once described as 'Alan Partridge meets Poldark' - is a fledgling revolutionary on a quest to free the people of Grump from oppression. The country of his birth is a bell-ended peninsular governed by an evil puppet regime comprising of two little wooden...
83) Swineforth
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¿Una escuela internacional en un estado totalitario? ¿Qué podría salir mal?
De la nada, el exprofesor de teatro, Tristán Randolph, vanidoso e ingenuo, ha asumido la dirección de una nueva escuela en Diskebapisbad, capital disfuncional de un despótico estado postsoviético. No se imagina, por más obvias que son las señales para los demás, que la escuela es el capricho de la hija malcriada del despiadado presidente. Randolph contrata a un...
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THE ORANGE OFFICE: A day in the life of a messed up President. A satirical and funny story about an unlikeable man who rose above his own competence.
Ronald Stroud is a loud and obnoxious wind that blew into the Oval Office, he doesn't care about history or politics.
Ronald Stroud has finally made it to the White House. On his first day, he discovers that being the President of the United States isn't going exactly as he planned - senators want...
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A new government has been elected and, as usual, savings must be made in the public service. Some individuals in the Department of Multifarious, Extraneous and Artistic Affairs will go to any lengths to be made redundant and to leave with lucre, but Alan Mewling is not one of them; he is unashamedly desperate to avoid bureaucratic irrelevance. At the very time, though, when he needs to demonstrate his indispensability to senior management, his domestic...
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Do you sometimes believe you have made a contract with the Devil at work? Have you sold your soul and paid the Ferryman his fare to transport you to the Purgatory of your work? Well think yourself lucky you don't have to face the Demons that pursue Jack, Kitty and The Big Yin face across America and Europe as they seek the elusive secret to paradise - psychotic American Special Forces, ancient Welsh Druids, the Corsican Mafia, Dutch gold bullion dealers,...
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Boomers John and Sally Ross return from a memorable vacation in Budapest, hoping for some peace and quiet at their Kentucky home. But Sally ends up staying with their daughter who is undergoing cancer treatments in New York.John heads back to Lexington, only to be surprised by unexpected houseguests that could put a strain on family relationships. He also has to deal with some shady characters who have moved into the neighborhood and may be responsible...
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Harry Stone was a good man or so he thought, he had never committed any crime. Like most people he assumed when you die that was it. He was wrong. Death was only the start of his problems. In, The Life and Death of Harry Stone, read what really happens when you die and just who knows who you might meet. In Harry's case people that everyone will have heard of before. This is a dark story, so if easily offended this may not be for you ! You have been...
89) Felleza
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El primer libro de Jeanette Moro. Dos cuentos cortos en donde se mezclan el humor y el sarcasmo la problemática de todos aquellos que no son lo esperado, tanto en belleza como en estilo de vida a la luz de los valores de nuestra sociedad.
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La taberna de los 3 monos (y otros cuentos alrededor del póquer) es un libro de relatos de los más diversos géneros: negro, terror gótico, esperpento, fantástico, policial, erótico, gastronómico o western.
O más bien la esperpentización de esos géneros tras bañarlos en humor ácido y negro.
La presencia del póquer en todos los cuentos aporta la tensión, análisis sicológico y suspense que acompañan a este apasionante juego.
91) Don't be a Hero
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If Harry Harris had been a second-hand car, Big Marge would have kicked his tyres.
Harry has ditched thirty years in a well paid career to follow his dream of being a writer before it's too late. Girlfriend Peggy patiently supports him, but Harry is wilting under the weight of rejection letters and the guilt of not helping with the bills. On an impetuous whim, he applies for a job as a bookies cashier. However, a Birkenhead betting shop is no place...
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I was on the bottom rung of the music business.Then my new friend Dewey invited me to play a basket-house night with him in the middle of nowhere.Now I'm convincing him of my musical worth like my life depends on it because, for all I know, it does.This is a short-story in the Artists Of Leaves End universe.(Also available in an earlier form in Street Apples Magazine #1)
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The distant future: the year 2020. Brexit still hasn't, meant Brexit. The Conservatives are still in power. Things are bad. For average Brits Ian, Ben, and Nate it's time to get away from it all with a holiday to a country where the leader is competent and the politics are civil. Just kidding: they go to America.
What should be a relaxing tour of the east coast turns into a holiday from hell, when they, become embroiled in increasingly apocalyptic...
94) Voracidad
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Voracidadprocura ser una novela provocadora, un despiadado retrato esperpéntico y satírico del nacionalismo, de la España gobernada por la derecha, del sexo, de la televisión, del arribismo y la falta de escrúpulos, del oficio de buscavidas, de la estupidez y la locura, de la venganza, del horror e incluso del amor por Internet.
Y del sistema, que se devora a sí mismo, como demuestra la crisis económica en la que estamos inmersos.
Por la novela...
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¡Habla, Pepe habla! Queremos que hables. Tú que disertabas, nos hacías reír y te reías igual en grupos pequeños como en grandes escenarios, tu sólo ante centenares de almas.
Porque, ¿sabes Pepe? Pasa que somos muchísimas las personas que te añoramos. Pasa que apareces en muchas conversaciones, que a menudo alguien de pronto, salta:
"¿Qué diría Pepe ahora de esto o aquello?".
Habla Pepe, habla. Porque pocas personas saben que cuando te...
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Amistad, desilusiones, lo efímero de la vida, relaciones tóxicas, dependencia emocional, maleficios y traición rodean a un grupo de gente imperfecta, adorable y alegre que trata de ser feliz..., unos con más puntería que otros.
En este escenario, Almudena, casi cincuentona y empujada por la presión social, está obsesionada por pescar novio. En su busca, son más los desatinos que los aciertos que comparten escenario con una herencia sorpresa....
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Following hard on the heels of tragedy and a botched suicide attempt, The Cuckoo of Awareness has flown in to the Cotswolds to rescue the life of Tom Atkins - whether he likes it or not.
If that wasn't bad enough, at the same time a 'Black Swan' event - the 'Battle of Wellington Square' - the most uplifting peacetime civilian massacres in history - was coming to the doorstep of his home in 'Cheltenhamshire'.
The 8th Wonder of the World is...
99) Coffee Tales One
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A collection of short stories and flash fiction that celebrates both light and dark sides of human nature.
Brief reads designed to transport you far away from life's small annoyances for a restful five or ten minutes.
Tom's life has been going nowhere for years. His dad has zero expectation of the situation ever changing. Bring on the onions.
Joy adores her husband and would never do anything to jeopardize their marriage. Would he?
Petra loves...
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