Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Anthologies & Short Stories

The first book in the essays of Seneca deals with good and evil. The dialogue is opened by Lucilius complaining with his friend Seneca that adversities and misfortunes can happen to good men too. How can this fit with the goodness connected with the design of providence? Seneca answers according to the Stoic point of view.

This is a mystery story that takes place in Buenos Aires. Laura is a street drawer. She makes portraits and landscapes and sells them in a pedestrian street. One day, a strange man from Sweden shows up. He starts buying portraits. A few days later, Laura is gone. Her friend Claudio will try to find her.

The King in Yellow is a book of 10 classic short stories about the supernatural. The first four mention "The King in Yellow", a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those exposed to it. The tales have a macabre undertone, focusing on characters that are inhabitants of the demi-monde.

The Allegory of the Cave appears in Plato’s Republic and compares the effect of education and the lack of it on human nature. It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother and Socrates, who tells of people that have been chained to the wall of a cave their whole lives. They see shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them. Socrates explains that the philosopher is like a prisoner who has escaped the cave and realizes that the shadows on the wall are not the true reality at all.

Twisted 50 is a deliciously dark slice of contemporary horror literature. Reading it is like attending a late night secret banquet where you know each course will serve up something unexpected, forbidden, and unforgettably chilling. Take your private seat now for 50 luscious courses of terror, from 50 of the strongest voices in modern horror.

Doppelgängers, werewolves, and little tiny diamond grubs that eat their way through your shirt. They're all here and not always looking like you'd expect them to. Fifteen horror stories for Halloween guaranteed to make you look over your shoulder and avoid dark alleys.

"Adolf" is a charming story of a wild rabbit introduced by the father into a miner's home, to the delight of the children and the despair of the mother. Larger questions of life and death and nature and civilization are touched on with a light hand.

Goose Fair was written by D H Lawrence in 1910. Lawrence sets his story against the backdrop of the industrial troubles caused by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. A young woman is torn between her need for a lover and her contempt for what she perceives to be his dishonesty in the burning down of a mill. Is all love a compromise between the ideal and the reality of life?

Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. The main themes of the story are the class system that dominated society at the time and the pressures put on the young lovers who have to overcome it, and the position of women in society who have nothing to offer but their bodies. For the sake of security and position, one daughter makes a loveless marriage whilst the other daughter gives all that up for love.

A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.

I go to take my regular morning shower, in my older roommate’s en-suite, but I forgot that her boyfriend, Matt, had the day off work. As I enter their bedroom, I see him splayed out on the bed, and with his sleep-mask on. We startle each other, but the pair of us have already seen too much to ignore. Matt replaces his sleep-mask, and tells me that I can do whatever I want - and he can be blissfully ignorant. Listen, as I take him up on the offer, sitting down on his stiffness.

I hated stepping out into the hall of my apartment building. When your ex-boyfriend lives only a few doors away, you kind of run the gauntlet. But if there’s one thing worse than seeing your ex, it’s seeing your ex’s father. Me and Mr. Clarke step into the elevator, and the awkwardness is almost too much. When the elevator breaks down, the two of us are forced to talk more - and soon the notion of "going down together" takes on a whole new meaning! Listen as Mr. Clarke treats me to an amazing first-time experience in that sweltering-hot box of sin.

Fragmented into 16 excerpts, stories, or scenes, this brief work by León focuses on the breakup of a couple of unnamed lovers without explicit gender, swept away by the gale of passion and desire, with the moon as their sole spectator and accomplice, and the presence of a cat that serves as witness to the impulses of a love that is hopelessly undone in the misunderstanding of bodies scorched by the fire of the sexes. The work is a heartbroken cry of a lonely, proud individual, overpowered by his own ego in the face of the loss and abandonment of the one who filled his days.

En español neutro, una vieja venta en las afuera de Sevilla, dos enamorados y los estragos del tiempo.

Es posible que la muerte deje tras de si la puerta abierta de nuestras vidas pasadas ? Es posible que podamos encontrar en medio de nuestras meditaciones los secretos mas obscuros y las aventuras mas increíbles jamás contadas ? Quizá la historia entera de la humanidad podría ser reescrita, eso claro si tan solo lográsemos recordar...

This collection of stories brings together a wide cast of characters, all connected to the Ozarks - natives and transplants, young and old, wicked and innocent, troubled and happy, God-haunted and just plain haunted. These stories range over human experience from madness to reconciliation and everything in between, told in precise, poetic language that leaves a permanent impression. Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Fiddle Dragon Studios presents for your listening pleasure, Tales from the Studio. In this audiobook, you will hear a wide variety of tales, from a conversation between mother and child to a battle with a spider. There are 10 tales with a slight twist to keep you guessing on the road to a happy ending, at least for some.

The MILFs Unprotected eight-pack features audiobooks 9 to 16 of the series, where mature, insatiable MILFs are given the fillings they crave, taking their inexperienced man’s hot love in sinful fashion. Includes "I Saw My Lodger Naked - and I Liked It", "Snowed In and Plowed", "His Sinful Confessions", and more.

Estas pequeñas historias hablan de experiencias cotidianas y de personajes que aunque ficticios puedes cruzarte con ellos en la parada de un bus, en la calle, en un centro comercial, etc. Personajes con los cuales hablamos de las cosas que nos pasan a diario, pero la autora de esta obra, ha sabido descubrir, en las situaciones que esos personajes atraviesan, los momentos irrepetibles, las crisis que marcan indeleblemente unas vidas, el acercamiento o ruptura en una relación, el vínculo intrínseco entre nieto y abuela. Y lo hace desde su propia perspectiva.

When a long-lost love comes knocking, a loyally wedded rancher is tempted by old passions. A bartender wrestling with sobriety is pushed to the edge by a familiar barfly. After her husband's death, a famous composer struggles to write a single note. From international flights to hidden grottoes and a nude beach, 12 wayward souls seek to satisfy their deepest hungers and escape their fears. Body Language explores our often-misguided quest for happiness and connection.