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Welcome to the Midnight Tea Shop, open from 3PM to 3AM. Irina Kelsey is in trouble. Prom night has arrived on the Oregon Coast, and her very small business is not prepared for an influx of high school students looking for somewhere to continue the party after the dance is over. On one hand, she desperately needs the customers. On the other, she doesn't serve coffee. When the girl in the pink dress arrives with her entourage, Irina has to make a choice–...

La richesses des scènes de la vie ordinaire L'univers coloré et aux tonalités féminines des Pieds de la femme boutonnière, dévoile des scènes de la vie ordinaire animées par des personnages attachants et sensibles, qui s'éveillent à la vie par une plume fine. Chacune des nouvelles du recueil de Christine Claude est un regard attentif sur la vie, une petite leçon d'humanité. Une ode à la vie EXTRAIT Dixième jour de fermeture de la...

Extrait: "Le journalisme est une royauté nouvelle, la plus jeune à coup sûr de toutes celles qui couvrent aujourd'hui l'Europe ; plus vivace et plus hardie, plus souple et plus alerte que toutes les cours et tous les cabinets qui se liguent sans pouvoir se soutenir, qui prodiguent les serments et les parjures, les protestations de franchise et les arrière-pensées sans réussir à se tromper ; elle est née le jour o la vieille royauté a reçu...

Abandoned in a frozen wasteland he expects his next job will be as a stiff. It has to happen someday given his line of work. Mob executioners have a limited shelf life. But he'd made a fatal mistake. He slept with the boss's girl. Now he had a price on his head and he had to run or he'd be ugly ass tortured before a premature death. But he may have a way out at the end of the road.

Celebrated contemporary author Roxana Robinson stakes out John Cheever territory in this stellar anthology. Whether it's a woman who must accept the reality of her son growing up, or a daughter becoming disillusioned with her father, this moving collection expertly conveys the joys, doubts, fears, and endless contradictions that are inescapable parts of domestic life. In "Mr. Sumarsono," included in The Best American Short Stories of 1994, a visiting...

Extrait : "Les murs de la cellule étaient nus, peints à la chaux. Une fenêtre étroite et grillée, percée très haut de façon qu'on ne pût pas y atteindre, éclairait cette petite nièce claire et sinistre ; et le fou, assis sur une chaise de paille, nous regardait d'un œil fixe, vague et hanté" À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique...

A collection of 13 tales perfect for Halloween.The Giving Zombie - Is it possible to give too much?Cheesy Torture - True cruelty.Stealing from Death - Stealing from Death has consequences.The Barber - When thieves steal from his clients, a barber vows to stop them. The Devil's Game - He doesn't play for money.The Bear - A teddy bear picnic is always fun...until it's no longer voluntary. The Ghost of Whispering Pines - Speed traps are erected in the...

In Nothing Looks Familiar, Shawn Syms' debut story collection, characters from a wide swath of society chart paths from places of danger or unhappiness into the great unknown, each grappling with a central and sometimes unanswerable question: if you fight to change your circumstances, could it be possible to reconfigure your very identity? From bullied kids to meth-smoking mothers, characters in dire straits take measures (sometimes drastic ones)...

This Christian Romantic Urban Fantasy short story is the 7th in a series of "episodes". There's a new wolf in town, and she has a rather sizable chip on her shoulder. Tanya doesn't let that deter her from issuing a warning though. The she-wolf brings a new possible threat, even as another arises on the Preserve.

A man walks among the ruins of a city, afraid of the shadows that inhabit the ruins.He remembers what took him to the city and why he has not left yet.A science fiction story about loneliness and corporal terror, told through memories.