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In seventy-two hours, a blockbuster expose will reveal Victoria Stevens's multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout—and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world's biggest problems to "eradicate forever."

As mankind races toward self-destruction through pollution due to indifference and negligence, there are people and forces of the earth trying to undo the damage. This story relates the world-encompassing journey of one person’s attempt to repair and off-set future damage through communication with endangered species as it carries you above; upon, and under the very earth that man seems bent on destroying.

Welcome to the Fiction on the Web audiobook series, featuring a collection of short stories with a different theme for each volume. Lovingly curated by the owner of Fiction On The Web, Charlie Fish. Come and share in the joy and power of short stories. The theme of this volume is Kafkaesque. You've probably heard of Franz Kafka even if you haven't read his books. You might even recognize his nightmarishly absurdist style. This volume explores a Kafkaesque world that's full of surprises.

The only adaptation that powerfully reimagines Albert Camus's The Stranger! When you feel unsupported by those around you, as if the world is singling you out for blame, When you find yourself wanting to condemn your own immorality, That's when you need this book.

Воспаление мозгов — рассказ Михаила Булгакова, посвященный всем редакторам еженедельных журналов. В произведении рассказывается о том, как ошалевший от жары и голода писатель, вынужденный срочно написать историю для одного журнала, вступил в беседу с собственными мозгами. И вот что из этого вышло.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

"Pogo es una novela que es acompañada por una banda sonora confeccionada como un casete pirata de la década del noventa decorado a mano. POGO es la expresión social del empute colectivo. El pogo resulta ser el antídoto valioso para la supervivencia, surge desde un lugar extraño, en el...

Charlie Chambers is a young and cute submissive boy ("cute like a corgi who would carry your slippers to you in bed every morning") living in Bangkok, fantasizing, and trying to make a name for himself as a writer and vlogger. But he's naive to the ways of the world. So naive that he must be trained by the bar girls of the White Rabbit, a go-go bar in Sukhumvit, and he must be punished for his sins.Amara is an Amazonian vixen.

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

A man claiming to work for the CIA hires the Lints to find a shipping container of radioactive Agent Orange that vanished over fifty years ago. He insists someone is planning on using an army of drones to drench L.A. with the deadly chemicals before the week is out. The Lint Brothers enter a maze of bizarre suspects, from nefarious ad executives, to anarchistic Boy Scouts, to a toga-clad militia fighting for exclusive rule by women. The propaganda-obsessed society that seems to be running the world is probably worth looking into as well.

Die tragikomische Novelle von 1842 beschreibt das einsame Leben des Akakij Akakijewitsch in Sankt Petersburg. Er ist Beamter mit Leib und Seele, der seinen Beruf als Kopist liebt. Den Spott seiner Kollegen ignoriert er, am gesellschaftlichen Leben nimmt er kaum teil. Erst, als er sich einen Mantel kauft, den er sich lange Zeit vom Munde abgespart hat, ändert sich sein Leben schlagartig. Er wird nun von seiner Umwelt wahrgenommen, und seine Kollegen veranstalten sogar ein kleines Fest für ihn und den Mantel. Dann jedoch wird er überfallen und der neue Mantel wird ihm gestohlen.

The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of people around the world, the boy vanishes, and the girl is left to wait, wonder, and worry. Will he return? Who might she be if she moves on without him?

Kafka und Satie - Erzählungen von Franz Kafka inszeniert mit Musik von Eriki Satie. Franz Kafkas kurze Erzählungen vereinen Phantastisches, Paradoxes und Absurdes. Unglaubliches und Unerhörtes wird da beschrieben, minutiös, nüchtern-ernst und oft verblüffend komisch. Grenzbereiche unseres Lebens werden ausgeleuchtet, existenzielle Grund- oder Ausnahmesituationen in unvergessliche, traumverwandte Bilder gefasst, geschrieben in einer wunderbar klaren Sprache, die im Deutschen ihresgleichen sucht.

Homeless couple Isaac Newton and his girlfriend both harbor secrets. When Marsha tells Isaac that she is pregnant, Isaac, the half-breed angel shares with her that he has wings when he pulls them out inside the cardboard box they inhabit. When a mysterious video of him goes viral, Isaac, unbeknownst to himself, becomes the target of a man whose job it is to hunt down half-breeds.

Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.

Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she’ll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan’s wish come true.

Set in America's New Wild West, this medical thriller features Kit Carson, a single mom nurse, who joins the Vigilantes for Healthcare Justice to fight against armed crazies, a crooked sheriff, and the greed of the corporate hospital. Drama and trauma on the night shift in five episodes. In the vein of Samuel Shem's The House of God and B.P. Reiter's The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club, Collison writes a medical thriller from a nurse's point of view, with gun locked & loaded and tongue firmly in cheek.

March 1954 in the booming economy of the United States. Kids and houses are becoming the newest necessities for everyone. Women are obsessed with having children and husbands. Men are obsessed with women and working. Love is in the air and so is wonder. We will focus on Richard Dick Rourke, a decorated war veteran turned highly touted stage actor in San Francisco, California. He enjoys a nice drink and a tiny bit of gambling on his favorite baseball team. Not to mention he loves screwing random women, usually married.

The Hospital Ship is no more, and Yang Wei awakens to find himself at the mercy of monstrous doctors and the tumult of his own mind. Not helping matters, of course, is the Mars Hospital’s Pool of Dead Souls. A ghastly body of water, it traps people in an endless cycle of treatment, death, and resurrection. When an unruly band of patients revolts against this suffering, the Hospital descends into chaos, the likes of which have never been seen before.

Have you ever wondered what Big foot does on his day off? Or were hippies really about peace and love? Why are there really so many junked cars in the south? Well sit down and find out about this and more. This is a collection of stories that take place in the world of Harold Hatch cryptid liaison. From magical mishaps to aliens abducting hobos.