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Winter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge? Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness. In his village lives the beautiful Aqamdax for whom he yearns, though she is mated to a cruel and dangerous tribesman she does not love. It is Chakliux she runs to under a clear, moonlit sky while the village sleeps.

Malgudi Ki Kahaniyan (Hindi) is a set of stories that are based in the fictional town of Malgudi. The town of Malgudi is a South Indian village created by the author and offers a valuable peek into the quality of rural life during the pre-independence era. The characters in these stories come from different walks of life, and each has a unique tale to tell. These stories have characters such as astrologers, postmen, doctors, beggars and priests.

Do you think people stop talking once they are dead? Then let this book change your mind. Here are four terrifying stories drawn from real-life events. Four supernatural tales about college days in India. Four surreal narratives that will twist their way into your nightmares.

Chiara è disperata per essersi lasciata convincere a trascorrere le vacanze natalizie sulle Dolomiti insieme alla sua famiglia, invece di scappare verso l'agognato sole dei tropici. L'ultima volta che ha messo gli sci ai piedi, parecchi anni fa, si è ripromessa di non farlo mai più. Dovrà unirsi agli entusiasti sciatori e sperare di tornare tutta intera. Come se la situazione non fosse già di per sé difficile, dovrà anche avere a che fare con Giulio, l'enigmatico fratello del cognato.

In January 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions for 120 days and temporarily barring entry from seven Muslim-majority countries. Mass protests followed, and the order has since been blocked, revised and challenged by judges, politicians, activists and artists alike. But the battle is not yet over, and in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the UK, Trump has renewed calls for the ban.

Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds....

Modern stories for modern times, Crash Diet is at once brilliant and bitter, happy and heartbreaking. In 11 stories, acclaimed novelist Jill McCorkle tells the varied tales of today's southern women, the lives they end up leading, and the loves that distract them. Sandra knows that the best revenge is her ex-husband's credit card; Ruthie is stuck owning a motel that the highway has bypassed; Anna is a widow who goes to airports and looks in on other people's lives; Bunny waits eagerly for her absent sister's postcards for advice on how to live.

These are stories that explore the scarred outposts of desperation and desire, sickness and death, sex and decay. Within this audiobook, you will also find the acclaimed novella Nearly People (nominated for awards by the International Horror Guild and the British Fantasy Society), in which a woman's search for food in a nightmarish city brings her attention from an enigmatic man known as The Dancer, and a host of terrible epiphanies.

A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A botanist seeking a rare flower crosses path with a group of men hunting the Loch Ness Monster. A disillusioned missionary in Africa grapples with grief and a growing obsession with a creature rumored to live in the forest of the Congo. And in the title story, a young woman traveling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer.

Drew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and columnist for Deadspin, as well as the author of Someone Could Get Hurt and The Postmortal. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children. Something has landed in Armie Puglian's yard. Something not from here. What is it? What's it looking for? And what happens when Armie decides to keep it?

Gloria lavora in una casa editrice. Quello che fa la appassiona. Quando ormai manca poco alle vacanze natalizie, il suo editore le assegna il compito di lavorare al romanzo di un autore appena acquisito, su cui la casa editrice ha investito molto, Orlando James. Gloria accetta ben volentieri, anche se sa che Orlando ha non poche singolari caratteristiche: è eccentrico, non ama le regole, cela a tutti la sua vera identità. Ma soprattutto – cosa che Gloria non immaginava – comincia a mettere in discussione tutti gli interventi di Gloria sul suo romanzo.

A short story on forbidden love. The society may frown on their relationship, but sometimes we do not choose who we love.

Larvas es un salto hacia lo insólito donde todo parece ser lo que no es: animales de compañía se convierten en testigos y en verdugos, voces de aparecidos lo inundan todo, larvas surgen de lo más íntimo de nuestro cuerpo. Las historias de Tamara Silva Bernaschina son una deriva al territorio de lo inusual, porque quizá es ahí precisamente donde nuestra realidad tiene su explicación y sus últimas consecuencias.

Tres muy mexicanas historias de amor que giran alrededor de dos canciones, narradas por catorce gatos.

Los cuentos de Pedro Ugarte se mueven en un terreno reconocible, cotidiano, en una tranquilizadora geografía de residencias y avenidas donde «la felicidad es un archipiélago de islas pequeñas, cuyas costas se ven azotadas por un océano oscuro y turbulento», pero basta desviar un poco la mirada, dar un solo paso en falso, para adquirir conciencia de los abismos que asoman a los lados.

El vacío identitario de los llamados suburbios de Nueva York, la discriminación, la vigilancia vecinal, la impostura del movimiento woke, la normalización de los suicidios diarios, la degeneración de gran parte de la academia norteamericana, la enfermedad mental y sus laberínticas soluciones, la atroz soledad y la ternura de los inesperados encuentros que suceden como consecuencia. Esto son algunos de los temas y sentimientos–paradójicos en ocasiones–que recorren los cuentos de Luna Park.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

Cuerpos con plumas y brillantina que bailan para olvidarse que todo alrededor es sed y polvo, un padre que rejuvenece sin piedad, un abuelo que se transforma en alien, niñas con la misión de traer al mundo al Hombre Nuevo, seres que brillan como el plancton enterrados a tres metros bajo tierra, mujeres que tratan de escribir y no recuerdan nada, mujeres rotas, mujeres enamoradas del fantasma de escritores rotos, mujeres con un corazón de zarapito en el pecho, mujeres muertas con los sobacos tiernísimos que todavía sueñan con volver a enamorarse...

En el Diccionario de americanismos de la RAE se define veneco como un adjetivo despectivo y popular para referirse a los venezolanos. Estos cuentos proponen un descenso y un laberinto por viajes, encuentros y desencuentros en orillas que se llegan a convertir en un diálogo fracturado. Aviones, aeropuertos, ciudades, personas… pequeñas y grandes historias que conviven con nosotros porque son parte de una épica cotidiana, o de un sueño propio de las películas.

En el paisaje de la amistad y del amor, ¿cómo construimos cada día el puente que une las islas que somos? Entregados a la vida, los protagonistas de estos cuentos inventan las fronteras de sus vínculos, los celebran, los traicionan, los anticipan, los confrontan. Siempre en tránsito, viajan hacia lo nuevo con asombro, hacia ese instante cuando esperábamos risas al sol y nos heló la sombra.