West Shore Stories by RH Brooks (14 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A memoir, in short-story form, of growing up on the Connecticut shoreline in the 1960s. So much has changed in sixty years but coming of age, in any era or locale, is familiar human territory. These stories may, or may not, resonate with your personal stories but they may well arouse memories of your younger self and the friends you shared this special time of your life with.

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Fusion: Together We Stand by Sydnie Beaupre (Sydnie Beaupré) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Fusion: Together We Stand is about celebrating the neurodivergent mind through poetry, short stories, personal essays, photography, illustrations, and paintings. The contributors to this anthology are either neurodivergent, submitting on behalf of someone who is neurodivergent, or are writing/drawing/painting/photographing something to do with neurodivergence. Royalties go to either the MUHC Foundation or the Douglas Foundation

Genre: Short Stories

A World of Drabbles: 100-word Microfiction by Tom Baldwin (4 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Drabbles are stories of exactly 100 words, excluding the title. This collection of over 150 tales ranges over life, death, love, hate, humour and satire, sometimes capturing a single happy moment, sometimes revealing a terrifying view of the world as it is, or could be. Many have a twist to make you smile or wince. You will meet people you like, people you hate, events to warm your heart and situations you would never want to experience. Read of first and last loves, births and bereavements, malevolent modern technology, and much more.

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All for One (The Reverse Harem Diaries Book 1) by Mia Moon (114 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

Can you get a second chance -- with three men at once? We're all grown up, and we're finally in one place again. Rex, Shaun and Taylor. My three best friends from high school. Gorgeous, successful, sexy as hell. They all came back into my life when I needed them most. I can't believe I'm having these fantasies about all of them. About having all of them at once. Then one warm night, everything explodes. They're willing to indulge my fantasies... And give me a happy-ever-after. Together. Warning: This is a sweet-hot reverse harem romance with three hot alpha males who will do anything to protect their woman. It will make you sigh. And a few other things we can't print.

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The Funeral Girl by Don Hough (20/40 Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

"There isn't a page on which Hough doesn't nail something, a thought or an observation of the world, in a way I haven't seen it nailed before." Jonathan Franzen "A gem, full of brilliant stories." Alexander Theroux, author of DARCONVILLE'S CAT "There is a sense of urgency in this collection, a David Foster Wallace influence, and an overall attention to language and detail. I found myself envious and inspired. I like it a lot. I love it." Brandon Hobson, author of THE REMOVED "Don Hough's insightful stories provide a humorous yet realistic tour of pop culture. He wields a vocabulary like a bullwhip and deftly grapples with matters of the heart. The Funeral Girl is riveting." Matt Bucher, author of THE BELAN DECK The seemingly placid surface of every small town in America belies the passion roiling inside its residents. These loosely connected stories dissect with forensic precision the inner lives of the young people in one such town, exposing their desires and fears, their insights and insecurities, their loves and hatreds -- creating a panoramic view of an emotional landscape characterized by the tireless pursuit of connection.and briefest moments of grace.

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Horrendous Horrors of the Misfortunate by Seth Kinstle (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Short horror stories of the human mind that haunt and plague certain individuals in this wretched graphic book.

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Romance: The Award: Football Bad Boy Romance, Baby For The Billionaire, College Sports Romance (Billionaire Bad Boys Club Series Book 3) by S. M. Kingdom (Good Romance Books) (39 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Can there be love between an award-winning TV anchorwoman and a billionaire bad boy football star? The wait is over! Come read the final extra hot and sexy episode of The Anchor romance trilogies! Alex Morgan had finished her college degree and landed a job in her hometown of Nashville. David Castle became the newest member of the Tennessee Titans football team, and the two of them picked up where they had left off four years ago. Alex feels that this time things would be different until she finds a woman on David's threshold claiming the baby in the carrier belongs to David. Alex's world comes crumbling down around her, making her to do things she would not normally do otherwise. David had no idea what Alex had been going through since finding out about the baby. He had no idea that Alex would go as far as she did when she felt she had lost him. Would the two of them be able to put their differences behind them and build on a future? Will there be a happy ending? The Award is is written for mature adults and is Book 3 of the Billionaire Bad Boys Club Trilogy Series. Free Bonus Book Included Inside - Hockey Wives Power Play (Billionaire Bachelors Romance)! WARNING: This book contains mature themes and is Intended for 18+ readers only. Scroll to the top and click BUY to purchase 'The Award' now!

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Prompted, Issue 03: Reedsy's short story review (Prompted Magazine Book 3) by Reedsy Ltd Price verified 3 hours ago

Could you write, edit, and submit a prize-winning short story in 168 hours? Pick up this issue of PROMPTED and discover what's possible when writers face a deadline armed only with their talent, craft... and a writing prompt. Write a story about two characters who like each other but don't get a happily-ever-after. Write about a character who breaks free from a tradition to create a new one. Write a story about someone trying to raise the dead. Each story is inspired by a one-sentence prompt and written in a single week -- demonstrating the power of inspiration and the places our imagination can take us with the slightest nudge. Featuring winning works from the world's most popular weekly short story contest and guest edited by Martha Sprackland (founding editor of independent publishing house Offord Road Books and of the multilingual arts zine La Errante), PROMPTED is a new literary magazine from Reedsy. In this issue: Pari Ghodsi's LILIES ? Paul Crehan's WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE THE MUSIC OF AN OCTOPUS? ? Wendy Markel's LAST OF THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS ? Old Adder's DO FLAMETHROWERS BELONG IN THE LIBRARY? ? Ian E. Gonzales' THAT ALL-IMPORTANT FIRST SCENE ? Parul Desai Shah's SHAMELESS ? Lindsay Flock's THE WALK ? Victoria Macleod's EMMA ? Danny M. Grimes' FAE-TOUCHED ? Bay Colt's CLEARANCE AISLE LIBATIONS ? AnneMarie Miles' CERULEAN ? Olivier Breuleux's THE DAY ALFRED GOOGLED HIMSELF ? Peter Elliott's THE WINTERS OF MY DISCONTENT

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Expectations - The Andersen Saga: Clean and Wholesome Womens Fiction. (The Andersens Book 11) by Jacie Middlemann (15 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Chris has always been a dreamer... happy to spend him time drawing with pen and pencil, pastels... even crayons. Adam has always been the pragmatic one... intent on his studies and long term goals. Yet no two brothers could be closer despite their many differences... Expectations is the eleventh novella in the ongoing story of the Andersen family. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It's only been months since her death and the four children she leaves behind continue to grapple with the shifting changes in their lives now that she's gone. Disappointments she kept to herself are coming to light. And the grandchildren she adored are struggling for answers not easily found. Adam Andersen has had his future plotted out for him almost from the day he was born. Now he is faced with the realization that the future others have set him on the path for isn't the one he wants. Worse, he's uncertain about what it is he does wants. As he looks out over the lake he wonders if here in the seemingly middle of nowhere he might find the answers that have so far eluded him. Chris Andersen is the living image of his father. But unlike his Dad... and his brother, he has always looked at life as an adventure and the unknowns just around the corner as an unexpected challenge to be explored. Also in contrast to his brother his thoughts have little to do with his future. But during the unexpected visit to their aunt his future seems unexpectedly mapped out for him... if it's what he wants. Who could have known that the years spent drawing and doodling with whatever was at hand... pens, pencils, charcoal, pastels... could lead to something more? Patrick Andersen needed to talk with his youngest sister. He wasn't going to do it over the phone or any of the other more convenient means. He wanted to see her reaction when he told her what he'd found and the conclusions he'd drawn from it. That meant another trip to where she'd ...

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BLOODSUCKER BLUES: 9 tales with teeth by Trevor R. Fairbanks (Raw Youth Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

Nine Tales with teeth, including BLACK RABBIT, DEATH TO LIFE, SOFT WINGS AT MIDNIGHT, SNAPPING, NOCTURNAL SUBMISSIONS, INTO THE BURNING PLANET, FOREST OF THE BLOOD MEN, FESTIVAL OF THE SHRIEKING SIRENS and PRETENDERS OF INNOCENCE AND INSANITY!

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Boss Bodyguard (Grumps Gone Wild Book 3) by Regina Wade (90 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Someone just threatened my life -- And I couldn't be happier. Miles Cross is my boss -- and my temporary body guard. Gruff, stoic, and stern, he's also the man of my dreams. I've saved all of my firsts for the day he makes a move. Everyone knows how much I love him. Everyone except Miles. But nobody understands the Cross brothers like I do. I'll wait as long as it takes to crack that rough and stony exterior. Now a mystery stalker is leaving me threatening notes. I should be terrified. Instead, I've never been more excited. Because Miles has vowed to keep me safe -- And I'm not about to pass up the chance. I'm about to shoot my shot. I just hope someone doesn't pull the trigger on me first. Boss Bodyguard is a spicy forbidden OTT age-gap romance that features a fiery heroine who knows what she wants, and the boss she's coming for.

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Wallflower Seeks Mountain Man (Bear Mountain Brothers Book 1) by Marley Michaels (952 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Serena Black has never liked being the center of attention. She's always been the girl swaying to the music at the side of the room, happy to watch everyone else. Having put her life on hold and moved back home to look after her father, she's happy to read her beloved mountain man books and work at their family store. The less peopling involved, the better. When her dad drags her along for a delivery, the moment she steps onto Bear Mountain and locks eyes with Brady Long, she knows her life will never be the same. Brady has dedicated his life to creating a self-sustaining homestead on his family's land as one of the founding brothers. Now that the mountain's prophecy has been fulfilled, he's waiting for his one true love to be called to the mountain and reveal themselves. And the moment he sees Serena Black, he knows he's found her. All they have to do now is overcome all the obstacles keeping them apart, so they can finally make their bright future a reality. *** Wallflower Seeks Mountain Man is Book 1 of the new Bear Mountain Brothers series. They're the same kind of sweet, flirty, instalove stories you love from Moose Mountain, but this time you'll get the big, gruff and tough founding sons of the Bear Mountain Homestead living their lives on Moose Mountain's neighboring cousin near the town of Kenshaw. The mountain has always provided for its keepers, and now the Bear Mountain prophecy has been fulfilled, it's time for their soul mates to warm up their cold mountain hearts and complete their mountain lives forever. Can we all say, awww.

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A Multilingual Decameron: Stories of a Different World by School of Languages and Applied Linguistics The Open University (The Open University) (55 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In Boccaccio's Decamerone (1353), set during the 1348 Black Death epidemic in Florence, a group of men and women confined themselves to a villa in the hills outside the city and entertained one another by telling stories. Written nearly seven centuries later during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, this volume brings together stories written during lockdown by students at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. Drawing creatively on the various languages taught in the School - Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Scots, Spanish and Welsh - the stories construct a range of different worlds, from unsettling and sometimes uplifting experiences of lockdown, to recollections of childhood and dystopian futures.

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Boxes of Time: Stories by Jack Matthews (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Stories about messy emotions, troubled families and damaged personalities. 11th Story Collection. Over his lifetime Jack Matthews (1925-2013) wrote over 200 stories, many of which were published in literary journals. Although stories varied widely in subject and style, they often could be described as urbane, philosophical, poetic and sardonic. Stories in Boxes of Time were mostly published between 1961 and 1981; they feature characters who are troubled or unsure of themselves trying to deal with life's usual disappointments. Stylistically, these stories are polished and carefully written, but they deal with messy emotions, troubled families and damaged personalities. The characters may not be as educated or self-assured as the people in his other collections, but they still manage to figure out interesting things about themselves and the people around them. Stories from this period focus especially on the emotional stresses that separate parents from their children. This ebook contains 24 stories by Jack Matthews which have never been collected, making it the author's largest story collection. Matthews picked "Boxes of Time" as the title for this collection because each story reveals the drama of worlds long since gone but whose dreams and fears and anxieties still resonate today.

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Regency Rescues: Three Short Sweet Romances by Isabella Hargreaves (History in Focus) (32 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Saving the women they love from perils of Regency life. 'Gentleman to the Rescue': Clarissa Lanstone has been dragged to the altar by her cousin to marry old Squire Barns. Will Captain Tom Whittlesea, the love of her life, arrive in time to save her? ' An Officer and a Gentleman': Marianne Chaseley receives the worst news a mother can hear. Can Major Oliver Hurst convince her to let him help her one last time? 'A True Gentleman': Lady Emma Blanche is trapped in a situation no woman should endure. Her husband's valet, John Wright, knows he must help her, but can they escape Sir Henry Blanche? These are sweet M/F Regency romance short stories, each with a HEA.

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Hacker School Trilogy (cyberhug.me Book 0) by Allan R. Wallace (Allan Wallace) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Ascent To Hacker School: After chaos; something promising. The addition of Jake and David's stories completes this Hacker School trilogy - a requested prelude to the cyberhug.me trilogy. The coming apocalypse can lead to a better future. Maybe. In a dystopian world, who will decide the future of mankind? • After the Great Chaos, Jake's tribe decides it's time to expand from their hidden valley and once more deal with other societies. • David's tribe is trying to gather technology and reconstruct some of the technical marvels that once existed. They are violently opposed by anti-scavengers that wait for promised help from now vanished bureaucracies. • Charlene is mostly healed from her many battles. She's surprised by what may be a way to survive. Does this technocrat really offer a small chance of escape? Maybe human rights hacktivism is in her future. Probably not. Is it foolish to trust someone just because he remembers how to laugh?

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Rise: A Collection Inspired by Lift by Rebecca K. O'Connor (22 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

In celebration of the Kindle version release of LIFT, an award-winning falconry memoir, author Rebecca K. O'Connor shares a complementary collection of essays, short stories and poetry that further examines life in the shadow of a raptor's wings. LIFT, Rebecca K. O'Connor's arresting memoir of love, loss, relationships and one impossible peregrine falcon is further illuminated with this collection of writings on the world of falconry. The opening short story, "A Good Falconer Lets Go," about a teenage boy and his red-tailed hawk is a classic coming-of-age tale with a falconry twist. If you are a dog lover, "Heart to Tear" and "About a Dog", essays which read like O'Connor's love songs to the dogs of falconry will resonate with you, if not evoke a few tears. In short essays such as "The Knife" and "Storytelling" O'Connor explores early moments in falconry in the icy-clear voice readers grew to love in LIFT. The collection also includes a glossary on falconry and a bonus excerpt of her novel in progress, a post-apocalyptic wilderness adventure. If you have read LIFT and loved it, this short collection will add to your experience. If you've yet to read O'Connor's writing, RISE may encourage you to read more. ~~Praise for LIFT~~ **Novelist and nature reference author O'Connor (Falcon's Return) crafts a lyrical tribute to the spiritual connection between humans and birds in this memoir of the excruciating, transformative process of training a peregrine falcon: "Falconry is a religion, a way of thinking, a means of experiencing life." Indeed, readers will find almost as much spiritual content as natural. Despite O'Connor's icy-clear voice, her descriptions of training a young male falcon are fascinating for bird lovers and civilians alike: "when the falcon connects a high-speed dive... the duck remains a piece of the sky and only its body careens to earth." Surprisingly, periodic flashbacks to a troubled childhood -- an abusive stepfather, an absentee mother -- ...

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Dark Corners by William Andrews (Amazon Digital Services, Inc.) (52 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

DARK CORNERS is a short story anthology showcasing the various styles, genres and influences of William Andrews. Most of these are dark as Hell. Embrace the darkness and read on... If you dare!

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Death Calls by Courtney Vail (Little Prince Publishing) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A collection of short stories, poems and other goodies. Each piece in Death Calls touches on life's journey, death or dying in Courtney Vail's own freakish way. Some works are quirky, some funny, some gross, some resonating, but all pretty weird. Enjoy!

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Time to Think by Rigby Taylor (62 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Time To Think is an amusing, thoughtful and sexy collection of eight short tales about the human condition -- and how some gays cope. ?Sebastian and Reginald have a close encounter with visiting evangelists. ?Robert is so influenced by his sexy cousin and a book he read he does something foolish that has disastrous consequences. ?An unwelcome visiting bore is startled into fearful flight by his host's extempore philosophising. ?To his parents' slightly shocked surprise, a young man pursuing his eccentric pleasures is misunderstood by a lusty divorcee, and is only extricated from self-harm by discovering and accepting the rest of his character. ?The utter boredom of Charlie's life in a Nursing Home has been alleviated by the arrival of Mal... but there are problems to be solved. ?In the not too distant future, an accidentally irradiated young man sires a very strange young child who teams up with his lover, an artificial insemination doctor to create a new species of human... Are they the forerunners of a brave new world? Or is it too late? ?A middle-aged man has a run in with his obnoxious nephew over a singing trophy, which caused him great agony of spirit when he was a student. ?After a shy youth is talked into spending a weekend with an older man, he develops a taste for sex and decides to seduce his Maths teacher; with amusing consequences.

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Eyes in the Darkness: An Isiir Short Story by C. J. LaPolla (12 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Evil lurks in the shadows and waits to pull a young dreamer into a nightmare... Keo spends her evenings watching the stars traverse the sky above and dreams about the world being different than it is. She gets her wish as an ancient enemy emerges from the darkness to pull her into a nightmare. Before the evening ends she is thrust into an adventure that may be told as a legend for ages to come. Eyes in the Darkness is a standalone horror fantasy action adventure short story in the world of Isiir set thousands of years in the past from the novels Within the Ice, Out of the Ice, and Eryn's Tale.

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