Short Story Press Presents Beyond the Green Curtain
Short Story Press Presents Beyond the Green Curtain

Author: Short Story Press

Publisher: Short Story Press

Published: 2019-03-30

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1648913113

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Mary is a gas-station attendant with an epileptic son who can barely make ends meet, when she makes them meet at all. She has dreams of a forbidden love but can’t focus on those dreams when she can’t even buy her son’s medicine. She has a real knack for staying calm under pressure, and steadfastly does what she needs to in order to keep food on their table and a roof over their heads. One day she has an encounter with a woman who claims she can change Mary’s life in an instant. After a strange dream that seems like a sign, Mary meets her mystery woman, who offers her a strange deal. From there, Mary is taken on a whirlwind ride that threatens to crack her reality in two. She’s taken “behind the curtain” into a world she never dreamed could imagine – a world where nightmarish chaos is only kept at bay by a small few – and now they want her to be one of them. It seems like the opportunity of a lifetime, but will Mary be willing to sacrifice her own values and those she’s trying to teach to her son in order to get them a better life? About the Author: Brandon Humphreys was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and most of his short stories take place in his home state of Washington. He has a Master of Arts degree in English and creative writing, and he works as a freelance writer, adjunct writing professor, and a college writing consultant when he’s not writing his own fiction and blog pieces. He is a veteran of the Washington Air National Guard, plays guitar, loves dogs, and loves to fly kites on the beach. He is currently finishing his first novel about a bunch of dragons and their worshipers on another world. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Short Story Press Presents Of Elegance Revealed
Short Story Press Presents Of Elegance Revealed

Author: Short Story Press

Publisher: Short Story Press

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1648913628

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Short Story Press Presents Of Elegance Revealed by Ana Allen Sometimes we have no control over what life brings us. This is completely true for Marie who had her dreams set on a life of prosperity and propriety. She finds that life isn’t as simple as she has been grown up to think, and when she finds herself torn between a life of love and a life of convenience, she finds that decisions aren’t so simple either. Her dreams have always been pinned upon the life she would have if she were to marry Leroy Bouche; but when another man enters into the picture, things aren’t always so certain. The story, Elegance Revealed is an epic story, set in 19th century New Orleans. In this city, in this time, there is no limit to the opportunity or experiences, which can be found. Here the mix of cultures, the promise of enterprise, and the new freedoms which are to be discovered lead the heart to endless possibilities and a chance of anything that you choose. Find yourself enraptured in the opportunities and choices a young girl must make in this age; particularly, where it comes to matters of the heart, what is expected of her and what she is able to choose for herself. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Short Story Press Presents Valerie's Tale
Short Story Press Presents Valerie's Tale

Author: Short Story Press

Publisher: Short Story Press

Published: 2012-06-13

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1648913903

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Short Story Press Presents Valerie's Tale by Alicia Pesce Valerie’s Tale is a story about a little girl with a heart filled with courage and strength living in a world plagued with war and where magic is divided by Clerics who believe in using magic conservatively and mages who use it for whatever their heart’s desire. Valerie is force to grow up quickly when her mother contracts a life threatening illness, one that a Cleric cannot heal. With hopes of saving her, Valerie would have seek out an old wizard, a gentle man with a silly personality and unusual powers to heal her, but ends up getting frozen and brought to the future filled with odd machines powered by steam. She meets up with an old friend offers to help her through this dark new world, mostly occupied by Dark Mages who dominate the land with their dangerous magic, and find the kindly old wizard who helped her in her childhood. In her adventure, she must learn to accept things that she can’t control and she learns of patience, death and the toll that one takes when one messes with forces in which they don’t understand. But could magic really be such a dangerous force to mess with? Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Behind the Green Curtain
Behind the Green Curtain

Author: Riley LaShea

Publisher: Midnight Jasmine Books

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781955155021

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When Caton's sleazy boss offers her a position as his wife's personal assistant, she accepts the job with reservations, certain Jack Halston has ulterior motives. After meeting Jack's wife Amelia, though, it's Caton's motivations that begin to unravel. As vicious as she is beautiful, Amelia threatens Caton's position and her sense of decorum. As the attraction between the two women spirals into a torrid affair, Caton is drawn deeper into Jack and Amelia's world of privilege and prestige, where everything is at stake and nothing is what it seems. Behind the Green Curtain is a dark, erotic romance with numerous descriptive sex scenes intended for a mature audience.

Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain—Real Pro Wrestling Stories
Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain—Real Pro Wrestling Stories

Author: Jim Cornette

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Published: 2019-08-21

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1684067677

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Pro-Wrestling's secrets and greatest moments are immortalized in this graphic novel from legendary wrestling personality Jim Cornette. A true-story style anthology, these insider tales will show the lengths that wrestlers went to uphold "kayfabe" (the old carny term for the presentation of legitimate conflict), as well as the noteworthy cultural, racial, and economic effects these events and characters had on society. This is the graphic novel that old school wrestling fans have been waiting their entire lives for: a no-holds-barred representation of the moments that wrestling insiders couldn't talk about for years.

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

Author: Dominic Head

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-01-26

Total Pages: 1241

ISBN-13: 0521831792

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This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.

Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain
Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain

Author: Brad Kent

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0773548629

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Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland’s leading social and political critic in the period following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays by O’Faolain on a wide range of subjects – from canonical writers to architecture, from religious scandals to economics, from nationalism to internationalism, from long-dead historical figures to recent controversies. O’Faolain’s fearlessness in taking on the major political, cultural, and religious figures of his day, his masterly use of rhetoric, and his intellectual acuity have contributed to his works being quoted often by scholars working across several disciplines. Many of these essays appear here in print for the first time since they were published in the foremost periodicals of their day. An extensive introduction and helpful annotations contextualise and explain them for a new audience. In his re-readings of history and challenges to dominant historiographical trends, O’Faolain has become a pariah to some and a hero to others. The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain bridges some of these competing visions, presenting a more complex figure through his varied corpus of writing.

A Little Life
A Little Life

Author: Hanya Yanagihara

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 0804172706

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.