Showing titles in Anthologies & Short Stories

Una anciana cascarrabias está acusada de ayudar a una joven. Una dríada masculina encuentra su lugar en el mundo. Paralizada del cuello para abajo, un adolescente prodigio de la escultura tiene una nueva oportunidad de seguir con su arte. Un profesor victoriano viaja por Inglaterra para dar una conferencia sobre la evolución, solo para meterse en problemas a cada paso. En esta ecléctica mezcla de historias, que abarcan ficción histórica, realismo mágico, contemporáneo y ciencia ficción, El Bardo solo enseña una cosa: viaja con las palabras y descubre adónde te llevan.

Curas ilustrados y con hijos, boticarios de pueblo, músicos, licenciados, notarios, pequeños comerciantes, administradores de correos, soldados que nunca habían hecho guerras, un arsenal de una docena de lanzas: una conspiración que parecía condenada al fracaso, repleta de indecisos y rodeada por traidores.

Experience a tense 18th-century smallsword duel from the point-of-view of a sly combatant, who has a surprising plan to vanquish his smug opponent.

As the Spanish Flu pandemic promenades through the streets of East Boston, quarantined inside the brownstone tenement, Jimmy Quinn, eyes pressed against the keyhole of a forgotten door, watches her. The mysterious girl dances silently. The only sound is his beating heart. There is no music. She knows he is watching. A relationship will begin.

Rebecca’s family members were murdered during the Holocaust. Soon after she starts work at a dream job, her life changes forever when she meets a charming, wealthy widower. He becomes her lover and takes her to his exclusive club and on vacations to exotic locations. She discovers he works for a company that conducted business with the Nazi government. What decision does she make?

Winds of Change is the story of how ordinary people react and adapt to political change. With the background of Chemnitz in the Eastern part of Germany it follows the lives of Dieter S., a Stasi operative, and Kai T., the man on whom he spies over the duration of the life of the GDR to which both are loyal because of its creation in opposition to fascism.

This is a short story dealing with an injustice, a town without patience or pity in 1912 for the last living slave woman in this town. Each of six scenes builds to a crescendo of action. It is an old story of injustice brought about by those in power toward the poorest and least powerful in the community. It is also a story of rage when the last straw is put on old, dear Aunt Tilley who has changed the diapers of those who want to remove her. Told in the best tradition of Mark Twain's more serious tales.

Nineteen tales, spanning from July 1975 to June 1984, sewn together with the common thread of Tyler Willett, his wife Nancy, and their son Sean. Tales populated by drill sergeants, a collection of stalwart NCOs, and various commanders. These tales capture the conflicts, angst, setbacks, and triumphs as Willett goes from junior corporate executive infantry private to armor lieutenant platoon leader and finally a seasoned tank company commander.

Роберт Ирвин Говард (1906-1936) - американский писатель, автор приключений и детективов, а также произведений в жанрах фэнтези и хоррор. Герои многих его романов, повестей и рассказов перекочевали на страницы комиксов и экраны голливудских фильмов.

Set largely in the 1990s, the 12 linked stories in Joel Mowdy’s first book take place in and around Mastic Beach, a community on New York’s Long Island that’s close to the wealthy Hamptons but afflicted by widespread poverty. Mostly in their teens and early 20s, the characters struggle to become independent in various ways, ranging from taking typical low-paying jobs - hotel laundry, janitorial, restaurant, and landscaping work - to highly ingenious schemes, to exchanging sexual favors for a place to stay.

In the third installment of the MacInnes Saga, Elise finds herself caught between two men, the one she loves and the one who desires her. Even if she chooses Calum, the Stone of Destiny only approves those descended from past kings. Elise must marry someone approved by the stone. Who will it be? Can she resist the temptation of a wild-hearted Pictish chief? Or will she remain faithful to her darling Calum?

A federal officer's best friend is mortally wounded but still alive and suffering terribly. He just euthanized an injured horse, but the rules are quite different and specific regarding humans. They are alone with no sign of help for the dying man. What to do?

A friend of the narrator, a very brave but sometimes reckless lieutenant, is killed in action. The narrator becomes the possessor of a letter that he returns to the sender after the war is over. He finds the sender of the letter to be a very beautiful, sophisticated, but self-centered woman. So self-centered one wonders if she understands the meaning of the narrator's last words to her.

Debutante Peyton Fuller's life consists of friends, parties, and waiting for her beau to propose to her. With little knowledge of politics and fighting, her cosseted world changes overnight as soldiers stream into Harrisburg to prepare for a war between the states. As they march past her door, she catches the eye of one soldier who makes her question everything.

Award-winning audiobook narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge a short story by Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending.

The Resistors is a parallel sequel to 2018's The Kidnapped. It focuses on blacks, whites, and Native Americans resisting pre-Civil War oppression while attempting to establish dignified identities. It is also in the voice of Sarah, one of the author's direct ancestors. It is imagined that Sarah was primarily educated by her father who himself was taught reading and writing by Nathan Prescott, his slave master, and secondarily through two years of education at Goose Creek Friends School, a Quaker school in Northern Virginia, renown for being integrated.

Dwight Wilson researched for more than a dozen years to ensure this brilliant historic fiction collection portrayed the very nuanced history of African Americans in the United States. These stories span initial capture of Dwight's ancestors to those who broke the laws in the name of truth, humanity, and kindness.

In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper. It is an action-packed tale of technological advances and science fiction scenarios. Some of the predictions were remarkably accurate.

In this classic by Ambrose Pierce, a soldier falls asleep during war times. When he awakens, he finds an enemy man on a horse - but struggles with himself on shooting him. Instead he shoots the horse, and a comrade sees the horse and the man falling through the sky.

"Canadian Family Adventures" follows the tale of 10 Irish siblings who immigrate to Canada in the late 1880s. Their mother, Maggie Collins, wants her children, between the ages of 10 years old and 30 years old, to have a good life, and she arranges for them to sail to Canada. The ten siblings arrive in Canada by ship, and each one settles in a different area of Canada and pursues a different career.