In the cadence of a Texas drawl or the whisper of a midday kiss, these stories by Gail Galloway Adams capture untidy lives in which the pain of living is confounded with a grin. From the yoga instructor with her Earthshoes and mantras to the Texas aunt who wills herself insane, the characters in Adams's stories boldly face the sorrows and strains of everyday life, seeking relief in humor and redemption in words. The Purchase of Order depicts characters from Germany to Georgia, men and women attempting to find meaning within memory, who take joy in giving of themselves.

Radical Islam and the Battle for the Americas' is a Fiction of the non-fictional WORLD we live in today. this is not a book of Republicans nor Democrats but a Book of WE the People and the worse possible scenerio that might inflict the world as we know it. The death of America -Democracy the free world and the blest Isrealli people. An Invasion across the world like a fire radicals from with-in, led from across the great seas with one phone call- the call of DEATH. Twenty years of slavery as the Armies of death Ravish the Nations many hidden in the bossums of the earth -and from their under ground sancturaries can they survive and strike back as two thoousand American slaves from new york led by hope and a rumor from the north make a daring escape from this the last occupied city. a March across the four corners to the valley of the dead in New Mexico for their Epic Battle before their finale battle on land sea and air on the shores of Jersey across the Hudson and in the streets of the once great city. join we the people we the last americans in our greatest adventure and challenge ever -In the name of God Country and Family and Flag join us as we -you- the greatness of america stand up once more and Fight back the EVILS of our World. God Bless Michelangelo

The stories in "Scavengers" are about people fighting to gain or hold onto some good. For the six-year-old heroine of ""Dixie Lee"" it is innocence, threatened by her kidnapper. Gilda, the young English teacher of ""Scavengers,"" disappointed in love, wants a baby by artificial insemination. Middleton, the bumbling and incorrigible romantic of ""Following Keats,"" seeks love in Italy. In ""Fish or Fowl"" Isabel Larkin, lost in La-La land, seems uncertain about her identity--but not about doing what is right. Jeff Franklin, in ""This Day in Yankee History,"" tries mightily to convey his respect and liking for a distrustful young black boy he meets at the ballpark. These and others--a handsome alcoholic, a sex-obsessed homeless man, an ambitious cop, a professor drawn toward violence, a guilt-ridden man with a snuff movie--all struggle to possess a small part of what they have lost, thrown away, or never had.

"Fat Lady's Songs" An irascible vagrant toils at a mushroom farm to buy supplies for his artistic "projects." He discovers he has not been as forgettable as his nagging wife long ago predicted. "Brighton Incidental" The farcical outcome of being a well-meaning matchmaker in the lives of strangers. "Crossing Lines" Two random people on a train are nevertheless linked by coincidences that turn out to be life-affirming for them both. "Madeleine Time" A young, West End wardrobe assistant with a penchant for wearing historical costume appears to have left a baby on a bus--with amusing consequences. "Finn" An encounter with an angry swan and the eccentric owner of a canal boat sets a marginalised boy on the path to discovering a prodigious talent.

How long do we really have? Have the sands of time run out? How will it be in the end? One will be in the field, one shall be taken, and the other will remain: Behold, for I come as a thief in the night. Could you or would you know the signs I put among you? To think that the bitterness that life sometimes is could be so much worse; those who will remain will have hell on earth. I will send a messenger among you too save all who would listen.

This is a book of mystical, yet relevent, short stories, poetry and a play presented in the traditional Irish literary format. It follows the tradition of such authors as W. B. Yeats, Standish O'Grady, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Dermot Healy, and other inspirational Irish authors. It covers a wide range of historical and contemporary subject matter presented in an interesting and thoughtful context.

From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of blockchain cryptography ("Byzantine Empathy") and Internet trolling ("Thoughts and Prayers") to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial intelligence and the singularity ("The Gods Will Not Be Chained", "The Gods Will Not Be Slain" and "The Gods Have Not Died In Vain"), here are 17 interlinking visions that explore what it is to be human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend that. This collection confirms Ken Liu, author of the astonishing and multi-award winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, as one of speculative fiction's greatest short story writers. Contents include: Ghost Days, Maxwell's Demon,The Reborn, Thoughts and Prayers, Byzantine Empathy, The Gods Will Not Be Chained, Staying Behind, Real Artists, The Gods Will Not Be Slain, Altogether Elsewhere Vast Herds of Reindeer, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain, Memories of My Mother, Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard, A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty), The Hidden Girl, Seven Birthdays, The Message, Cutting.

The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 comedic short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. They first appeared in Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, but in 1962 they were collected into a single book and published posthumously.Pat Hobby is a once successful screenwriter in Hollywood, but now an alcoholic and broke, who spends his time hanging around the studio, hoping for work. The stories generally revolve around him hatching a plan to earn money or glory in some way, but they usually end in further humiliation.The introduction to the book states, "while it would be unfair to judge this book as a novel, it would be less than fair to consider it as anything but a full-length portrait. It was as such that Fitzgerald worked on it, and would have wanted it presented in book form, after its original magazine publication. He thought of it as a comedy."