A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers' expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an 'eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm', and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence.

Fact & Fiction Hunting & Fishing Stories is a book for anyone who loves to hunt or fish. It is an anthology of short stories both fictional and non-fictional all taken from author Chambless Johnston's own experiences. Have a son or daughter who likes to hunt or fish with you? There are many stories here for you to read about similar experiences that you possibly have had with them and maybe learn a lesson or two. Want to take a quick trip to Africa, India, or Central America to hunt or fish without ever leaving you own home? You will travel around a lot by reading this book. Have a special dog in your family? There are dog stories too. There is a tale in the book for nearly every kind of outdoorsman. Fact & Fiction Hunting & Fishing Stories contains a story on everything from bass fishing to big game hunting. Written with the insight of a Hemingway and the enthusiasm of Zane Grey laugh and maybe cry a bit as you read these special stories.

From the moral dilemmas of an ordinary soldier to a man's infatuation with a past love, "Tales for Sale," a collection of fifteen thought-provoking short stories, will touch your deepest emotions.

""No Honor Killing"" tells of a conflicted soldier who thinks hard about what he hears from his colonel: that there is honor in the executions that his men carry out as long as they dress in full uniform. But when the men are asked to kill their own drummer, they must decide whether to follow orders.

In ""Stations"," a man still enthralled by the scent of a past lover must decide whether to take her back when he hears from her for the first time in seven years.

""Possibly Cursed Mirror"" tells the story of a new homeowner who is desperate to give away a mirror that someone left at his home. The previous owner put it in a corner where no one could ever possibly stand directly in front of it. But the mirror has been moved.

Matthew O'Malley delivers a compelling collection that runs the gamut of emotions from funny and sad to scary and light-hearted. Get ready for the unusual!

George's family were working class, moving from one tied cottage to another, which eventually took them to a Private girl's school. George was still pining for his childhood sweetheart, who drowned in a boating accident along with her family. A chance meeting with a new pupil at the school, Jennifer, helped him close that chapter in his life. There now followed a warning from the past, schoolboy/ girl romance, ghosts, and chilling music. He had lost the love of his life and was now building a new relationship or was he.

Another collection of sixteen intriguing stories in which fate plays its cards sometimes to the advantage of the situation in which the characters find themselves but often to upset carefully arranged plans. The tales range from the title story where two nations are at war over a sacred artefact, to The Race with two men vying for the same woman.

Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses.

Baby girl is willing to do anything to hear those three words I love you. She realizes the one who is telling her they love her is the one killing her softly.

Cecilia doesn't know who to trust her (bff ) best friend forever or her man.

Camilla wants a man to love her wholeheartedly. She wants the passion, as well as the respect but with Gus she gets a wolf dress up in sheep clothes.

"You Nasty Dog" focuses on the physical and mental abuse of Camilla, Cecilia, and Baby Girl by those they have trusted with their heart, body, and mind. All three of the women are different from one another and do not know each other at all but in many ways they are connected by betrayal. Once these women find the strength to fight back it becomes a deadly vengeance.

The novella is set in a small country town surrounded by farms. It follows one eventful year in the life of a family of three girls, Paula, aged 9, Hanna, aged 8, Rose, aged 6 and their little brother. The story is told through the eyes of Hanna, the middle child. She is a daring child, whose love for adventure sometimes lands her in trouble. Suddenly, the family is faced with tragedy which throws them even closer together. The family copes with this tragedy with the support of the children's favourite aunt their neighbours and the community. The book gives a rare insight into the lives of children in a rural community.

"Bears on the Road to Damascus" presents a mad hodgepodge of the real and the fantastic, a literary buffet designed to please several palates.

In this collection of short stories and essays, often macabre and always touching, strange tales of terror, love, absurdity, violence, loss, and conviction await. Just when things may seem a bit bleak, charming folk tales emerge to inspire and delight. The title story tracks a convoluted murder mystery in the beach town of Santa Roma, a strange place where the ocean hints at favors-but makes no promises.

This collection contains a first-person account of occupying a campus administration building in protest along with hilarious, satirical news articles; a long-lost script of Sarah Palin's Alaska; and a heartfelt essay examining our place in history, and the path forward.

With a little something for everyone, "Bears on the Road to Damascus" is an indescribable and peculiar adventure into pure imagination.

TAKE FIVE is an eclectic collection of stories about provocative circumstances and intriguing events.............. "Dreams" blurs reality in a macabre interplay between the conscious world and the unconscious imagination. In "e-mail," the Internet extends a global reach of high tech revenge from Washington, D.C. to Central America. EVERMORE follows one man's unusually long journey that starts in the nineteenth century and continues into the twenty-first. "Parfum de Femme" is a sexually charged romp through the world of haute perfume marketing and corporate transgressions. From the SITUATION ROOM, the President and his senior staff try to control escalating events as the world moves toward nuclear cataclysm.

This unique collection showcases the darker side of human emotion through a myriad of poems and short stories. The poetry is a manifestation of the aanger, sadness, rage and ultimate lack of control that encompass the thoughts of each of us at various points in our life. Three short stories cover three very distinct genres. The first story, "In the Dark," allows a glimpse into the world of a Meg, a young woman who has enjoyed a full and successful life which is abruptly interrupted by her encounter with a psychotic killer. She is forced into a battle of wills to protect what she cherishes the most. The next story, "Last Night on Earth," is based on Andrea Leigh's account of the many strange and unexplained events that occurred one summer night. You decide where truth ends and fiction begins. Keep in mind, truth really is stranger than fiction. The anchor story for this compilation is "The Other Side of Twilight." This story is set in a decimated post World War III America. Two women, Alaina and Alyson, attempt to move forward with their lives after learning of their husband's death on their return trip home from the war. Soon after hearing the news, the two women are abducted and placed at a top-secret government base. Here they not only learn the truth behind their abduction, they also learn another disturbing secret that hides behind the razor-wire. Alaina and Alyson use any means necessary to avoid being separated which includes a forbidden alliance. But, will it be enough to keep them alive?