Crossed Wires and Other Very Short Stories
Crossed Wires and Other Very Short Stories

Author: M.A. Kropp

Publisher: Kream of the Kropp Bookworks

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1732916330

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Twenty-four very short stories, twelve science fiction and twelve fantasy. From the future to now, from fairies to androids, from outer space to right next door, each of these short tales can be read in minutes. Explore worlds defined in small spaces, easy to pick up and read when you only have a moment to spare. Crossed Wires and Other Very Short Stories proves that sometimes, less really is more. When a demon crosses into our world, the battle to defeat it also crosses the borders of realities in a deadly game of Cat and Mouse. Invisible friends. The stuff of childhood imagination. Or are they? A Girl and Her Imp might have something to say about that. Set in the world of the Yo-Yo Files series by the author. There’s Something in the Water, and for one vacationing family, that something means more than they imagine. Red is the Color of one starship captain’s face when a first contact diplomatic dinner takes a wrong turn over a salad. In the battle between mankind and the robots determined to exterminate them, one craftsman finds a way to create his own Bone Song. Maintenance robots are great. They take the burden of routine jobs off human workers so they can devote their talent to the trickier jobs. But Crossed Wires can make a useful tool into a deadly opponent. These and eighteen other miniature tales are waiting in Crosses Wires and Other Very Short Stories.

Crossing the Wire
Crossing the Wire

Author: Will Hobbs

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0061963623

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In this riveting, action-packed novel from award-winning author Will Hobbs, a teenage boy hoping to help his loved ones must fight for his life as he makes the dangerous journey across the Mexican border into the United States. When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to "cross the wire" from Mexico into America so he can find work and help ease the finances at home. But with no coyote money to pay the smugglers who sneak illegal workers across the border, Victor struggles to survive as he jumps trains, stows away on trucks, and hikes grueling miles through the Arizona desert. Victor's passage is fraught with freezing cold, scorching heat, hunger, and dead ends. It's a gauntlet run by many attempting to cross the border, but few make it. Through Victor's desperate perseverance, Will Hobbs brings to life a story that is true for many, polarizing for some, but life-changing for all who read it. Acclaim for Crossing the Wire includes the following: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, Junior Library Guild Selection, Americas Awards Commended Title, Heartland Award, Southwest Book Award, and Notable Books for Global Society.

Cross Wires
Cross Wires

Author: Greg Stallworth

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-08-28

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1532081081

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What would you do if you receive messages on your office phone about an alleged drug trafficking operation going on where you worked? What would you do if you believe this illegal drug activity could possibly involve your boss? Cross Wires is a powerful mystery that brings to light the dangers of a very respectful and successful employee who is caught in a vice between his loyalty to the company or reporting what he knows to the authorities. By going to law enforcement do you take a chance of losing your job and more risking your life by reporting these illegal acts? What happens next is cathartic scenes of the most devastating turn of events one can encounter dealing with fear. Cross Wires speaks of a corporate executive who had just received the nation’s top honor in receiving the Fortune 500 Award as one top business financially. Shortly after receiving this prestigious award his corporation is investigated by the feds involving him in an international drug tracking ring. After a series of the most suspense acts of terror involving a murder for hire plot things take the most unbelievable twist to justice. Cross Wires brings to meaning of who do you trust.

Little Bee
Little Bee

Author: Chris Cleave

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-02-16

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1416589643

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Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey​ puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis​. “Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.

FROM MASTI TO MAHADEVA (AN ANTHOLOGY OF KANNADA SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH)
FROM MASTI TO MAHADEVA (AN ANTHOLOGY OF KANNADA SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH)

Author: S. N. Vikram Raj Urs

Publisher: Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd)

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 938404475X

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I have planned and designed this representative Anthology of Kannada short Stories in English (Fifteen stories).My main objective is to offer the best short stories in English. The seeds of Kannada short story as a literary form can be traced back to Katha Sarasttisagara, Panchantantra, Jataka tales and great oral folk legends and wonderful tales. Some of the oral and written stories were carried to the West mostly by traders, wanderers, monks and cultural ambassadors. They also carried with them the two greatest epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata, Vedas and Upanishads. The travellers brought back the great stories/epics of the West like Illiad, Odyssey and Biblical stories. With the invention of printing press in Germany in 16th century it became possible to reach out to countries far and wide through the medium of print. The short story as a genre developed steadily over the centuries and it lost its amorphous body and acquired a well defined order, arrangement and form.

We All Fall Down
We All Fall Down

Author: Robert Cormier

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0307549070

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Buddy Walker is troubled by his parent’s recent divorce, and when Harry Flowers suggests a prank, he goes along, just for opportunity to do something different. He doesn’t realize that someone is watching. When Jane Jerome’s house is trashed, and sister brutally injured in a home invasion, she struggles to continue with her life as her family falls apart. The Avenger has witnessed reckless evil. He has killed before and knows that he just needs to wait until the time is right before he can take his revenge. Robert Cormier once again sheds light on the conflict between good and evil and the dark side of human nature. In his classic style, each character’s point of view is revealed invoking both sympathy and horror while showing the complexities of the psyche.

The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories

Author: Various

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2024-03-28

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 0141999888

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A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated stories The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the form their own. By the twentieth century a profusion of literary magazines and journals meant they were being avidly read by millions. Writers responded to this hunger for words with a ferocious energy which reflected the turmoil of their times: these stories covered land wars, famine, the caste system, religious conflict, patriarchy, Partition and the liberation war that saw the emergence of the independent country of Bangladesh. Across these shifting geographical borders, writers also looked inward, evolving new literary styles and stretching the possibilities of social realism, political fiction and intimate domestic tales. A first in English, this anthology gathers together a century's worth of extraordinary stories. From a woman who eats fish in secret to the woes of an ageing local footballer, from the anxieties of a middle-class union rep to a lawyer who stumbles upon a philosopher's stone, this is a collection that celebrates making art of life, in all its difficulty and joy.

Hearing Things
Hearing Things

Author: Angela Leighton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0674985346

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Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing. An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets—Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald—Leighton’s scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.

The Story of a Dreamer
The Story of a Dreamer

Author: Anilu Castro

Publisher: Writers Republic LLC

Published: 2019-10-11

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1646200276

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The life and struggles of an immigrant girl born in Mexico. The story narrates why, how and when she and her family decided to emigrate to the United States. Her testimony relates how she survived a 3-day journey in the desert at age of 11 after failing for the first two attempts. What happened after she made it across, and how she overcame discrimination, depression, temptation and the separation of her family once in the American territory. A real-life story written to inspire and help others overcome their obstacles by seeing life from a different perspective.