Resultados para "Crow" en Antologías y relatos breves

Death and bad luck seem to follow me like a curse, and when I join the Kings of Carnage MC as a prospect, things are no different. I represent beautiful destruction with a trigger-happy semiautomatic, and it's only a matter of time before my fellow brothers see me for what I am. A wake-up call. I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing. Until sweet Maybelline walks into my life like an unwanted siren, ripping apart my desires and turning them into obligations. 

A Word Is Not A Sparrow is a diverse anthology of stories set amid Russian repression through the centuries; personal narrator testimony about the impact in America of immigrant grandparents from Ukraine and elsewhere; powerful fables and allegories that deliver universal messages about displacement, migration, and human connection; and classic Cossack folk tales that are a touchstone of Ukrainian culture. Listen as we let these words fly out around the world.

Just another day working at the clinic? Nope. Another short story from *A Girl Dog's Breakfast*, first Crowe Creations Print Edition May 2011, by Sherrill Wark writing as Christina Crowe.

Despite the suspect’s warning pleas, a police officer decides to check things out herself while investigating the abusive husband’s very strange death.

Happy wife, happy life; unhappy wife with certain, shall we say, “connections”? …

The Madonna was written by my mother Patricia Moran, I inherited it upon her death. It is the story of childhood dreams lost and refound. Although, I am labeling it fiction it is told as if it were something that as a child she went through, and knowing my mother as I did, it could have happened. Until the day she died, she believed that all things were possible.

Durante mucho tiempo, la literatura victoriana—y en particular, su vertiente gótica y fantástica—fue leída como un territorio casi exclusivamente masculino: poblado por nombres consagrados, firmes, autoritarios, asociados a una idea de genio literario que rara vez admitía fisuras. El gótico, lo sobrenatural y lo inquietante ofrecieron a las mujeres escritoras de la época algo que otros géneros les negaban: la posibilidad de hablar de poder, de miedo, de deseo, de opresión.

In Beyond the Veil, is a collection of six short stories. "The Devil Inside" - A story of a psychopathic killer with extraordinary powers, who like his father before him finds joy in stalking, marrying, and torturing his victim. "The Tower" - Sensitive Amanda has moved way too many times to escape her stalker. She has changed her identity multiple times, left family and friends behind, all the while hiding her paranormal abilities. It appears that her stalker may have found her again. What will she do?

„Wahre Liebe verlangt nicht nach Blumen. Sie verlangt nach Opfern.“Für Lucy beginnt der Horror nicht mit einem Schrei, sondern mit einer Stille, die sich wie ein Grabtuch über ihr Leben legt. Es beginnt mit einer Botschaft auf schwerem Papier und dem Gefühl, dass die Schatten in ihrer Wohnung plötzlich ein Eigenleben entwickeln. Mason beobachtet nicht nur. Er besitzt. Er isoliert. Er radiert alles aus, was zwischen ihm und seinem „Rehlein“ steht. Freunde, Familie, die eigene Identität – Mason schneidet Lucy Stück für Stück aus ihrer Welt heraus, bis nur noch er übrig ist.

This bundle includes The Forbidden Christmas Gift, New Year's Eve, Loving Valentine, and Ember in the Heart.

In this Printed Words anthology, the lines merge between crime and horror, fiction and poetry. So, you’ll be kept guessing whether the villain is human or monster. Sometimes, the worst monsters are those who pass as human.

Detectives Milton and Blackwood are tired of “the weird stuff”, but at the old pumpkin farm they discover that the weird stuff isn’t done with them…. Thomas, realizing too late that today is his girlfriend’s birthday, is about to be helped out of his predicament by a precocious little girl with a terrible secret.… Danny Miller is a tiny kid that doesn’t take kindly to bullies. When things take a sudden turn for the deadly, nothing will stop him from getting his revenge. Lucky for him, he’s got a friend like Billy…

Meet a serial killer forever trapped in a Super Max prison. A 15-year-old girl in 1912, forced to choose between a man she does not love and a boy who might just kill for her. A man who discovers, after 40 years, that he has a twin brother...living in his stomach. A cancer-stricken old man who can listen to the dead call up from Hell through his stethoscope.

Fear is universal—a shared human experience that provokes awe, curiosity and terror. It feeds our anxieties, elevating our heartbeats and driving the instinct to survive. But what are we afraid of—and why? Each story in this anthology seeks to answer that question, blurring the boundaries between horror and fantasy fiction.

Since the first appearance of a vampire in Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer, we mortals have endured a morbid fascination with these peculiar creatures of the night. They come in many forms: charming and seductive; ghastly and terrible. Join us as we explore a number of classic yarns concerning the various guises of the vampire, from Aleksey Tolstoy’s horrifying description of a vampiric family to Robert E. Howard’s tale of a creature loosed from bondage after having been buried for over three centuries. Thank the gods these creatures are fictitious…aren’t they?

These stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuane's fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words. In this collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia, and a father's outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when lifelong friends on a fishing trip finally confront their deep dislike for each other.

Welcome to the anthology that rips open doors of the town’s most twisted households; exposing clergy who prey, matriarchs that destroy, children who snap, and secrets buried under decades of lies. The vengeance unleashed by families when pushed too far is nothing short of dysfunction.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

Michele Damstra's An Old Man and a Crow and Other Original Tales is a collection of six life-altering, lyrical stories. Ranging from wickedly funny and intriguing to heart-rending and mysterious, all are deeply thought-provoking. The collection is in the style of flash fiction. Following each story are suggested reflections, activities, and writing prompts. Embark on your own journey and liberate the insights and wisdom that rest within. A great resource, and a valuable writing and educational tool, the book will be enjoyed by anyone from teens to golden oldies.

Seventeen stories of small-town America that will make you laugh. Guaranteed. If you grew up in the rural Midwest, you've met big, easy-going Sheriff Tip Tungate, with his uniquely local sense of justice. You've sat in front of hulking principal Butch Bauer, who runs "the best sports program in the state", and seen his football trophies in the display case behind him. You have eaten baked beans and chocolate cake at the church carry-in supper, been embarrassed by a revival, and seen what happens in small towns to intellectuals who won't shut up.