Showing results for "the-silence" in Anthologies & Short Stories

June Berry has babysat for the Blossom family for years. When they move to a new house, further from town, she does what she always has. She finds there's something about the house, something dark and dangerous that wants the family's child. Silence is a short story.

The best-selling series, complete in a single volume. Star-spanning action and intrigue. A Nation at War: After aliens attack without warning and slaughter half the human race, a new country emerges. Using alien technology and desperate ingenuity, the reborn USA carves a place for itself in a violent universe, thanks to its deadly Navy and the dreaded Warp Marine Corps.

A tense and brilliantly dramatic short story from the best-selling author of The Throne of the Caesars Series. AD 238. Emperor Maximinus' reign is under threat as Gordian the Younger and Elder are proclaimed emperor. Julius Burdo, official of the empire, must accompany the knife-boy Castricius north to assassinate Maximinus. The order is from the new Augusti; death is a certain fate to both men whether they succeed or fail.

A collection drawing from the many areas of Mary Anne Mohanraj's work, Silence and the Word includes everything from enticing erotica to Sri Lankan-American immigrant tales, from romantic poetry to provocative essays, like “Esthely Blue” (a magical-realist semi-autobiographical story of sex, work, and disappearing body parts), “At the Gates of the City” (a Mormon ghost story), and the award-winning story “A Gentle Man” (an affecting tale of an immigrant father’s attempt to reconcile his own yearning for home with his children’s individual needs and desires). Mohanraj boldly explores sexuality, ethnicity, and their interactions with the human heart.

Demon recounts the story of how he tormented a man in the Congo. The man was seated on a rock on the edge of a churning river. The river was bordered by water lillies and surrounded by a forest of poisonous flowers. The man trembled in fear but did not run from the world he saw. Demon then cast a spell that turned the world into a violent one. The winds raged. The Earth shook, but the man remained still trembling. The Demon then cast a spell of silence. The Earth ceased to move. The wind stopped as did the water. There was complete silence. The man stood and strained to hear something.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Silence of a Songbird: The Story of Hannah Lockhart and experience the compelling world of mental health awareness.

The crew of the spaceship Juno expected to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead they discovered a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What had happened here? A natural disaster...or an alien weapon capable of destroying entire worlds? What were they willing to do, and what price were they willing to pay, to prevent another disaster?

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.

E. Nesbit is rightly best known for her children's books, but she also wrote works for adults, including short stories in the genres of the uncanny, macabre, and supernatural. There are five of these in this collection.

Huit nouvelles qui vont vous glacer le sang... "Écrire une nouvelle, c'est tenter, en quelques lignes, de donner vie à un personnage, de faire passer au lecteur autant d'émotions qu'en plusieurs centaines de pages. C'est en cela que la nouvelle est un genre littéraire exigeant, difficile et passionnant." Karine Giebel Si les romans de Karine Giebel sont parmi les plus lus en France et ont fait le tour du monde, celle-ci excelle depuis quelques années dans un genre tout aussi exigeant : la nouvelle.

They were happy once, and everything was perfect. A man and a woman and a little girl. Lots of money and an American dream life. Jake was an actor, Jane was a nurse, and Sara, their little girl, was nothing short of perfect. For years, they were a happy family, until reality came crashing down.

The eerie, haunted, and wildly tormented world of Edgar Allan Poe has enchanted, amazed, and horrified the universe.

The first collection of short stories by this multitalented author entwines everyday events that are articulated in excellent storytelling. The title story Inferno of Silence portrays men’s societal challenges and the unspoken truths and burdens that men bear, while “Black lives Matter” shows the firsthand trauma of a man facing racism as a footballer plying his trade in Europe.

Un eremita de la antigüedad, misántropo y quisquilloso decide pasar su existencia sobre una columna desde la cual divisa a un compañero más anciano que él, y puede que más sabio y con más seguidores, lo que provoca en su interior pasiones insospechadas. Un biólogo amante de la soledad, enfrentado a lo que promete ser el descubrimiento de su vida, se ve confinado a un aislamiento autoimpuesto en la cumbre de un tepuy, en plena selva amazónica, con la única compañía de una anaconda que se convertirá a un tiempo en su ángel y su demonio.

Elliott and his son Matt are hired to babysit an important witness and make sure he makes it to court to testify Monday morning. Elliott takes him to a rented cabin in the mountains and quickly realizes that someone else knows he's there...and they're after the witness.

En Los silencios que habito, el autor entrelaza varias historias en las que se habla sobre la manera en la que los sentimientos de las parejas van cambiando, lo que provoca que el estatus de los vínculos amorosos se modifiquen.

Enter the spell-binding worlds of best-selling author Robert Stanek and dream a new dream. The book contains two novellas, two short stories and a special feature exclusive.