The Phantom Glare of Day
The Phantom Glare of Day

Author: M. Laszlo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1684631769

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In this trio of novellas, three game young ladies enter into dangerous liaisons that test each one’s limits and force them to confront the most heartrending issues facing society in the early twentieth century. The Phantom Glare of Day tells of Sophie, a young lady who has lived a sheltered life and consequently has no idea how cruel public school bullying can be. When she meets Jarvis, a young man obsessed with avenging all those students who delight in his daily debasement, she resolves to intervene before tragedy unfolds. Mouvements Perpétuels tells of Cäcilia, a young lady shunned by her birth father. She longs for the approval of an older man, so when her ice-skating instructor attempts to take advantage of her, she cannot resist. Not a month later, she realizes that she is pregnant and must decide whether or not to get an abortion. Passion Bearer tells of Manon, a young lady who falls in love with a beautiful actress after taking a post as a script girl for a film company—and is subsequently confronted with the pettiest kinds of homophobia. Specific to their time yet unquestionably relevant for women today, The Phantom Glare of Day is a compelling interrogation of who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong.

The Phantom Days of Odtown
The Phantom Days of Odtown

Author: Dan Porosoff

Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC

Published: 2024-03-25

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

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Private investigator Richter Raymond suspects that his best friend, Evan Pardo, has gone missing. As he investigates the potential disappearance, he begins to fall down a rabbit hole of the strange and unnatural, leading him to a certain off-the-grid, seaside village. The peculiar town has a local superstition that every year, just before the summer solstice, the town experiences an extra day which nobody remembers the next. Richter must confront his beliefs, insecurities, and prejudices as he ventures into the eerie and macabre Maine coast to not only find and rescue Evan, but to also uncover the mysteries of what exactly the Phantom Days of Odtown are.

On the Day I Died
On the Day I Died

Author: Candace Fleming

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Published: 2012-07-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0375898638

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"Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others ironically, but all due to supernatural causes. Readers will meet walking corpses and witness demonic posession, all against the backdrop of Chicago's rich history—the Great Depression, the World's Fair, Al Capone and his fellow gangsters.

Day by Night
Day by Night

Author: Tanith Lee

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0698404564

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This repackaged edition of a classic sci-fi tale from a master storyteller explores a planet of great contrasts, one side in perpetual light, the other in darkness. Vel Thaidis is a figment of Vitra's imagination. In a city with no sunlight, Vitra crafts dreams to entertain the masses. She enjoys a decadent life with the nobility while the lower class work and rot. Vitra's dreams are a mirror image of her life. Vel has a brother like her, knows a man like the one Vitra desires. Even the machines that take care of them, that no one remembers how to fix, are the same. Except in Vitra's dreams, no one can fix the machines when they slowly die, while they never break down in reality. Vitra will never fear being stuck in the dark with no machines to create light. Until she is. Vitra's dreams and reality are merging. She feels pushed into a corner, with no solution but the one her dreams have given her. In the end, Vitra may not have as much free will as she believes—and her dreams may be more real than she knows.

Summer
Summer

Author: Barry Moser

Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1594731837

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?Summer has gone by so fast, ? we often say?the only season for which we say that. Summer does seem to make us keenly aware of time. In our vacations we step out of time. Watching our gardens, we see the progress of time. Seeing the geese come honking back, we are aware of the passing of time. In essays, poems and meditations organized around themes of time and our responses to it, twenty-five writers consider summer and its spiritual meanings. Contributors include Anne LaMott, Luci Shaw, Ray Bradbury, Mary Gordon, Richard Selzer, Thomas Lynch, Celia Thaxter, Robert Clark, Michael Pollan, Francis Bacon, Jim Heynen and Emily Dickinson.