Resultados para "Adam" en Antologías y relatos breves

A bittersweet holiday tale set in a grimdark future, long after humans took to the stars. The Solstice Festival celebrates the new dawn and the promise it brings. It holds more significance for Marcus since he managed to claw his way out of poverty by focusing on the future. However, the legacy of his humble beginnings haunt him in a world where social hierarchy is everything. Instead of celebrating with his own family, Marcus agrees to visit his partner’s parents on their lavish estate to celebrate the Solstice.

The best of Deep Magic: Volume 1—fantastical worlds of space adventures, changelings, and dragons await—stories with depth, strong protagonists, high tension, all told while pulling at your heartstrings, or making you smile with understanding. In this volume, you'll find twenty-two stories, including many novelettes. Go on adventures from deep space to ancient Rome (with magic), to Mars, and many other new fantasy worlds.

A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time.

The Cassidyverse is vast. It spans centuries, stars, and stories whispered in orbit, shouted from rooftops, or muttered into a whiskey glass at the end of the world. In The Shape of the Fire, Adam Gaffen returns to the sprawling, genre-bending universe that began with Into the Black and The Heart of Space — and he’s brought some of your favorite chaos agents with him.

The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of White society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism.

Here is Twain's humorous, but also touching, look at Adam and Eve, in which he presents two very different interpretations of Eden.

The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five short list for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo Award's long list of works - the top 15 works nominated for each category - were these nine short stories and three novelettes, now made available to a wider audience by award-winning narrators.

Det är en varm och härlig sommarkväll. Anna har följt med ett par vänner ut till en stuga i skogen. Tanken är att de där ska ägna sig åt festande, men Anna har också andra avsikter. Hon behärskar konsten att förföra till fullo och i natt har hon siktet inställt på sin vän Cilla. Med lite alkohol i blodet släpper alla hämningar och det saknas gränser för vad ett gäng kåta tjejer och killar kan hitta på långt borta från civilisationen ... Adam Zander skriver om sådant som är spännande, nytt och inte minst kittlande, upphetsande.

The Old Adam is a story set in lodgings in Croydon, and the incident may again be autobiographical, but the story examines for the first time in Lawrence’s writing the different and conflicting loves between men and women.

"New Eve and Old Adam" was written by D.H. Lawrence in 1912. The story is largely autobiographical, telling the simple tale of an argument between a husband and wife, reflecting the difficult time Lawrence and his new wife Frieda were having. What was the place of a woman to be in a modern marriage? Lawrence argued that it was the woman's place to submit or unhappiness would ensue, at it did in this story. The wife is unable to submit to her husband and the marriage disintegrates.

Two old friends meet for an interstate game of golf, but this time the stakes are higher than their usual ten dollar bet…

A lo largo de su travesía, Tse-i-La se enfrenta a desafíos sobrenaturales y conoce a personajes extraordinarios que lo guían en su camino hacia la iluminación espiritual. Con una prosa poética y evocadora, Villiers de L'Isle Adam crea un universo fascinante lleno de simbolismo y metáforas, explorando temas como la búsqueda interior, el significado de la existencia y la conexión entre el hombre y el cosmos.

The last time Matteo tried out for the Rangers, he lost an arm. In a world plagued by monstrous threats, Matteo is granted a second chance to join the elite Rangers—the monster hunters protecting the city atop a giant turtle. With the promise of wielding a powerful magical artifact, he vows to excel in boot camp and make this opportunity count. Yet, as he endures the grueling trials of the Ranger training, a dark revelation surfaces: their ranks are thinning at an alarming rate.

The day after Hugo gains access to magic, his train explodes. Unknown magic flings him back in time, and he narrowly avoids death this time. While he is trying to unravel the mystery of this unexpected second chance, life goes on. His new gifts lead him to the magic academy. At the school, he will face off against noble students that don’t want him to be there, teachers that expect him to already know everything, and literal monsters that want to kill him. To survive and thrive he will need weapons, friends, and a healthy danger sense.

Among US couples marrying today, roughly 40 percent will divorce. About half of those will have children at the time of the split. Ensuing ugliness will engulf the lives of both divorcees and offspring. Perhaps there is another way, a better way. Adam-Troy Castro brings you a brutally horrific tale of the ultimate settlement in the battle of broken-hearted wills. Petty power plays have been cast aside. The facade of decency is shelved. For one blistering week in an abandoned desert motel, there will be no excuses, pleading, or games. Only resolution, reason, respect. And blood.

Philip and his girlfriend Beth were seniors in high school when they chose adoption for their son. Now, years later, Beth has moved to Palo Alto - and on with her life - but Philip still lives in town. He works a job he hates so he can be near Olaf, who knows him as “uncle”. On the morning of Olaf’s 14th birthday party, Philip hears his neighbor Zali’s dog, Sinai, barking on the other side of the fence. Philip scales the fence and finds the dog tied to a tree with a belt, hungry and scared.

A medida que Hadaly adquiere conciencia de sí misma y de su entorno, comienza a cuestionar su propia existencia y a desear convertirse en un ser humano. La trama se desarrolla en un ambiente futurista y filosófico, explorando temas como la identidad, la moralidad y la naturaleza del deseo.

Stories with depth, strong protagonists, and high tension are told while pulling at your heartstrings or making you smile with understanding. Go on adventures with heroes old and young, and visit many new worlds.

Så fort lärarinnan gör inträde i klassrummet förstår Anna att något kommer att hända. Efteråt kan hon inte sluta fantisera om henne: de bruna rådjursögonen, den åtsmitande klänningen, det nattsvarta håret som hänger vildvuxet längs hennes framträdande kurvor. Allt med henne driver Anna till det erotiska vansinnets brant... En dag ber lärarinnan Anna att vara med på en undersökning. Efter skoltid. Och en chans öppnar sig för Anna: är det kanske till och med möjligt att få till en trekant? Adam Zander skriver om sådant som är spännande, nytt och inte minst kittlande, upphetsande.

Peter och Sandra möts oväntat och bestämmer sig för att fly vardagen tillsammans. Peter faller handlöst för den tuffa, självsäkra och sexiga Sandra. Men Sandra är osäker på Peter. Är han rätt man för henne? Hon börjar utsätta honom för en rad sexuella prövningar. Men det går till slut upp för Peter att något inte står rätt till, att hans liv kanske svävar i fara och att den heta, passionerade Sandra är någon annan än den hon utger sig för att vara. Adam Zander skriver om sådant som är spännande, nytt och inte minst kittlande, upphetsande.