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En este Volumen; -Una Jornada literaria y otros cuentos- se recopila su prosa.

I have two young children that I wrote and illustrated the book, Flip Flops in December about. My daughter Paityn age 9 and my son Cassell age 5. Knowing that in the month of December everybody is usually boots, pants, and winter gear. Seeing my children wearing flip flops at that time gave me a good reason to write this short story.

Kang Kyeong-ae (1906-1944), one of Korea's great modern authors, wrote her stories during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Kang's work is remarkable for its rejection of colonialism, patriarchy, and ethnic nationalism during a period when such views were truly radical and dangerous. With an expert commentary by Sang-kyung Lee and beautifully translated by Anton Hur, this collection of Kang's work displays her sensitivity, defiance, class-consciousness,...

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Aside from his highly successful novels, Collins' short stories were eagerly awaited as they appeared in serial form in many English and American periodicals, including those of his close friend, Charles Dickens. Today, readers enjoy Collins' intricate and suspenseful...

Montague Rhodes James is considered one of the greatest writers of ghost stories of all time. Born in Kent, England in 1862, James was a well-known and respected scholar in his time for his exacting and informative research in medieval studies. He went on to become a Provost at King's College, Cambridge, and later Eton, in addition to publishing four popular and influential collections of ghost stories between 1904 and 1925. His story-telling modernized...

Three novellas portraying love at different stages of life. In 'Nineteen', a middle-aged man reflects on his first year at university, the characters he encountered, and the event that continues to haunt him. In 'Celeste', a couple in their thirties meet through a dating site after corresponding for weeks online. She likes him and he likes her. But, is it as simple as that? In 'Old Romantic', a man in his forties is dismayed to discover his father...

"The Olive Seed" Questions Where was the olive seed? Who asked for some water? What is the meaning of begged? Why did the seed want some water? What does the olive tree give us? What was the response of the creek? What did the seed do then? How did the seed get some water? "The Apple Seed" Questions Where was the apple seed? What did the seed do? Did the seed like the new homeland? What did the seed...

Se trata de un libro de relatos cortos sobre la vida, sobre el día a día, mi día a día, el estigma de la enfermedad mental en la sociedad, la salud y las dificultades que cualquier persona puede encontrarse cuando tiene ansiedad, miedo o, simplemente, tiene un mal día.

César Sánchez vuelve con su segundo libro, un fantástico tour literario donde cada parada es un desafío a la imaginación y a la inteligencia del lector. Un libro de relatos que nos propone viajar desde el cuento de detectives al de ciencia ficción pasando por el humor o el microrrelato, todo ello para darnos una visión muy particular de aquellas ciudades que, las hayamos visitado o no, nunca nos habíamos atrevido a imaginarlas de esta forma....

House of Miracles is about love-the romantic love of days gone by, first love, unrequited love, and the fragile intimacies of a couple living in the last part of the twentieth century. In these delightful, at times unsettling stories, we meet two very different women: baby boomer Janet MacDonald, who, despite a blossoming career in San Francisco, feels sure that she is cursed, and her elderly, eccentric neighbor, Mrs. von Meurs. When Janet's relationship...