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Steve Capone, Jr. shares three of his previously unpublished works from the last half decade or so. They are a bit odd. Wonder what it might have been like to see Jesus push a kid off a roof? Why an upstanding young woman might be breaking into a thrift shop after hours? Or what a man earning his million-miler recognition might have sacrificed to earn such high esteem? Three shorts answer these questions, at least in the mind of their author.

¿Creen las sirenas en los humanos? Mientras trabaja en una misión de buceo en aguas profundas para la Universidad de California, Jay Bishop, estudiante de oceanografía, es arrastrado a través de un tubo volcánico hacia el núcleo de la Tierra y hacia una muerte segura. Pero, para su sorpresa, Jay no solo sobrevive a la caída, sino que acaba prisionero de una comunidad de sirenas, que lo mantienen con vida como objeto de experimento científico. Confuso y desorientado, el único hilo de esperanza de Jay para regresar a la superficie es Paga, un anciano de la comunidad que cree que la ...

Two men wait in a room where judgment never arrives. One is a priest who once offered the lives of the innocent to appease the gods. The other is a modern leader who authorized decisions that cost innocent lives in the name of peace. They do not argue about whether lives were lost. They argue about why. As they wait, they strip their actions down to language, necessity, belief, and numbers. Ritual confronts procedure. Proximity confronts distance. Faith confronts probability. No verdict is delivered. No absolution is offered. No side is declared innocent. In Other Words is a quiet ...

Der kostenlose, vom Autor um die Weitschweifigkeit gekürzte, einzige Teil der Bittenichthören -Trilogie. Warum man dieses Hörbuch besser nicht hört, ist leider der Kürzung zum Opfer gefallen. Wer den Grund unbedingt wissen will, greife zur Langfassung. Absurd, aber gut. Wie immer verleiht Erik Wikki jeder Figur eine ganz besondere, charakteristische Stimme. Spannend, kurzweilig und nicht selten zum Schieflachen. Trotzdem. Bitte nicht hören.

I write trying to understand the secrets of life, but mainly why I can't adapt myself to duality... into a universe which is dominated by it. And ... i keep writing. But ... the real truth is that i am not really a writer but a person who's so, so confused and confusing ... clearly proving that i can't understand anything at all. Of course... like many others. But ... i continue my philosophical and spiritual journey. Becoming so afraid of karma ... and desperately trying to run away of uselessly provoking it ... but always failing. Looking so much ... like an idiot. And probably... being ...

Una notte di ottant'anni fa, durante una spaventosa tempesta, una nave scompare tra le onde di Capo Horn. È l'inizio di uno dei più affascinanti misteri del secolo. Due famosi scienziati, Achilles Kunbertus e Stephen Lupus, scampano al naufragio e solo dopo tre anni ritornano al mondo civile. Dove sono stati, che cosa hanno visto nel frattempo? Esistono davvero l'albero nuvola, il mangiaombra, la bancaruga, il leometra, il frotz? Il diario dei due scienziati è un'invenzione fantastica o è la testimonianza reale del più terribile prodigio naturale mai scoperto?

A rib-tickling tale of an ambitious pig that hangs out in a bar in Apache Springs, Arizona. Follow the pignatious Bacon as she gets herself elected Mayor, marries Harley Hog, has a litter of cute little piglets and becomes world-famous.

When his agent told the popular TV sports analyst and motivational speaker he was messianic, the young, charismatic man thanked him for the compliment which he promptly dismissed as mere agent hyperbole. When the avaricious agent told him he was going to start a teleministry and wanted him to be his money-making preacher, he politely refused. And when the greedy, fiendish agent threatened his family if he didn't accept the job, he knew he had a problem. Berkeley-born Toby Gates sought the help of the Banter Foundation. This delightfully eccentric group not only funds various charities but ...

King Conch is the third book in the Scare Johnson Series. As usual Scare Johnson, his wife Colleen, and all his friends just want to enjoy life in the Paradise that they call the Florida Keys. His Barge Island home needs to be rebuilt while it’s off the coast of Key West so everything can get back to business. Unfortunately, there’s a palm at the Town Hall he forgot to grease and the whereabouts of an old Key West fugitive he needs to find, before he can think about getting on with his life and stop dodging bombs and bullets. Just another day in Southernmost Florida.

Some silences do more than quiet a room. They erase a life. In a city that no longer notices him, a man drifts through days like a ghost, trapped in an apartment that seems to breathe against him. Walls crack, stains spread, and his reflection lags half a second behind. He carries an unsent letter in his coat, a small proof that he once intended to speak. Even hunger has turned to ash. Yet fragments of existence persist: the hiss of trains beneath the street, the warmth of bread once shared, the faint cloud of breath on cold glass. And one night, on an empty platform, a stranger steps too ...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man...

Die tragikomische Novelle von 1842 beschreibt das einsame Leben des Akakij Akakijewitsch in Sankt Petersburg. Er ist Beamter mit Leib und Seele, der seinen Beruf als Kopist liebt. Den Spott seiner Kollegen ignoriert er, am gesellschaftlichen Leben nimmt er kaum teil. Erst, als er sich einen Mantel kauft, den er sich lange Zeit vom Munde abgespart hat, ändert sich sein Leben schlagartig. Er wird nun von seiner Umwelt wahrgenommen, und seine Kollegen veranstalten sogar ein kleines Fest für ihn und den Mantel. Dann jedoch wird er überfallen und der neue Mantel wird ihm gestohlen.

The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of people around the world, the boy vanishes, and the girl is left to wait, wonder, and worry. Will he return? Who might she be if she moves on without him?

Kafka und Satie - Erzählungen von Franz Kafka inszeniert mit Musik von Eriki Satie. Franz Kafkas kurze Erzählungen vereinen Phantastisches, Paradoxes und Absurdes. Unglaubliches und Unerhörtes wird da beschrieben, minutiös, nüchtern-ernst und oft verblüffend komisch. Grenzbereiche unseres Lebens werden ausgeleuchtet, existenzielle Grund- oder Ausnahmesituationen in unvergessliche, traumverwandte Bilder gefasst, geschrieben in einer wunderbar klaren Sprache, die im Deutschen ihresgleichen sucht.

Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.

Experienced Halloween haunters Ray and Getty have won the Samhain Award for their horrifying haunts for the last nine years. When their cheating rival Del Mondo breaks the rules and steals their 10th win, Ray and Getty must resort to the spookiest means necessary to reclaim their titles. In part two, the duo face the aftermath of their competition with Del as they shift from Halloween spooky to Christmas cheer in order for Ray to save his marriage and claim the crown of best holiday decorator in the land.

Size matters. Or at least it does to Ed, nitpicking quantity surveyor and captain of his local pub football team who has faked a business trip abroad to get some cheap plastic surgery. Ed intends to be even more of a man upon his return. But has he managed to keep this as secret as he thinks? Will this really be such a wonderful surprise for Fiona on their wedding night? And just who is this operation for anyway?

Due anni, otto mesi e ventotto notti. Il tempo in cui le regole del mondo si rovesciano e strani, inspiegabili fenomeni iniziano ad accadere sulla terra: un giardiniere dal passato tormentato si alza una mattina levitando, un disegnatore di fumetti si trova obbligato allo scontro con il suo personaggio più riuscito, in una sala del municipio viene trovata una neonata dai poteri soprannaturali, un compositore lancia inquietanti profezie, e una giovane e seducente cacciatrice d'oro viene assoldata per una guerra al di là di ogni immaginazione.

Protagonisti di questo romanzo sono due grandi amici, l'inglese Archie e il bengalese Samad. In una Londra dove l'estremismo è all'ordine del giorno, i due danno vita a una strana quanto improbabile coppia: Archie ha sempre seguito la corrente, Samad, invece, è un musulmano convinto, che mal sopporta la decadenza della società occidentale. Ad aggravare la già inquieta atmosfera arrivano i Chalfen, agiati intellettuali inglesi carichi di tutti i tic e le illusioni della Generazione dei Fiori. E l'incontro-scontro fra le diverse culture produrrà effetti tragicomici non meno che devastanti.

The Metamorphosis is a story about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him. What does it all mean? It is most probably an autobiography of how Kafka himself experienced early life living with his parents. Kafka describes how he endured his mother and father's financial and emotional exploitations, to the point of detaching from them and thereby ceasing to be their son (the real metamorphosis).