Ex-Husband, Be Self-Dignified

Ex-Husband, Be Self-Dignified

Author: Ming Zhuhai

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2019-12-14

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 1647813956

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Only when she married him, who was secretly in love at the age of twenty-two, did she realize how much he hated her.After the first night, he left behind a few words beside her pillow, "I won't give you a child. Even if you want to die, I won't give you one!"She smiled wryly, closing her eyes and swallowing the medicine. The marriage was so cold that it almost made her despair. After the last courtship, she had been waiting for him at home for three months, expecting him to appear in the arms of another woman.He had taken his fiancée away to America, but she was kneeling in front of her father's spirit, her body bleeding from miscarriage.He was like a god who had fallen from the sky, and he began his resplendent life in the United States. And she was struggling at the bottom of her life, not daring to speak out loud and not daring to look up, all sorts of eyes wanting her to lose all the grace she had once had.When she had suffered through so much in her life, when she finally forgot the pain and no longer loved him and prepared to marry another man, he suddenly returned to the country and found her. He looked at her and sneered.Standing beside her was the child that she had given birth to. However, he stubbornly held her hand tightly, unwilling to let go.I don't love you anymore. I just want to wait for my husband to come back.He said, "I was the only one who could give you happiness."She looked at him in silence. But I'm already married, and I've never thought of getting married again.Even though he knew that she hated him to the bones, he still wanted to keep her by his side and not let her go. Fu Jingzhi, it doesn't matter if you hate me or hate me; I only want you to give birth to this child, a child that belongs to me alone!


Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

Author: Robert Coover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0393608476

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“A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor.” —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book Review Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works.


An Eclectic Reader

An Eclectic Reader

Author: Rick Fontes

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1257071580

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'An Eclectic Reader' is a mixed bag, a collection of action-adventure short stories and a few whimsical musings. The characters you will meet within these pages come from a multitude of varying backgrounds and bring with them tales that will inform, entertain and amuse. Within these pages you will meet an Air Force officer who seeks to hijack an airliner and a runaway groom who finds his most important answer while in a jail cell in Prescott, Arkansas. You will discover what happened to Clark Kent and explore the final extrapolation of the socialist dream in the tale, Sunset Village. Whether it is young love as in Billy and the Nester or a try at rekindling an old romance as in Rent With Option, you will find something within these pages to grab your interest and transport you, for a time, to a different reality. Settle into an easy chair and prepare to be entertained.


Pricksongs and Descants

Pricksongs and Descants

Author: Robert Coover

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2000-01-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780802136671

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Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.


Little Beauties

Little Beauties

Author: Kim Addonizio

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-08-02

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0743274563

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Diana McBride, a thirty-four-year-old former child pageant contender, now works in a baby store in Long Beach. Between dealing with a catastrophic haircut, the failure of her marriage, and phone calls from her alcoholic mother, Diana has gone off her OCD medication and is trying to cope via washing and cleaning rituals. When pregnant teenager Jamie Ramirez enters the store, Diana's already chaotic world is sent spinning. Jamie can't stand being pregnant. She can't wait to get on with her normal life and give the baby up for adoption. But her yet-to-be-born daughter, Stella, has a fierce will and a destiny to fulfill. And as the magical plot of Little Beauties unfolds, these three characters' lives become linked in ever more surprising ways.


State of Emergency

State of Emergency

Author: Floyd Salas

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781611922967

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Set in the 1960s, this riveting novel follows Roger, a radical professor attempting to write an expos? of government and military endeavors to annihilate dissidents like him. Everywhere he turns, shadows threaten to destroy him both emotionally and physically.


The Essentials of Horsekeeping

The Essentials of Horsekeeping

Author: Rachel Hairston

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781402726873

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"Maintain your horse's well-being with advice on everything from a healthy equine diet to emergency care...everything you need to keep your horse in top form is here."-cover.