From the AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, D. L. ORTON, comes a funny, provocative, and sensual collection of short stories. Laugh, cry, and linger over these brief but intense glimpses into the lives of two hesitant young lovers, a billion-year-old AI and his female companion, a human-dolphin friendship, a lonely divorcée who believes she's too old to fall in love and much more. Share the wonder. ⭐️ Experience the passion. 💋 Take the journey. 🚀 The Last Star • Two beings watch the last star in our universe wink out and discover the answer to how it all ends. Just Friends • Best friends since they had matching Scooby-Doo lunch boxes in second grade, two twenty-somethings take the awkward, irreversible, and breathtaking step away from "just friends." Phoenix • If you think your roommate is bad, then try living with a practical-joke-playing, drop-dead-gorgeous, celebrity femme fatale. No one is safe from her feminine wiles, least of all you. My Kingdom for a Double Espresso • Is sex just a physical thing for guys? You know you're in trouble when your girlfriend tosses that one out the morning after you make the mistake of falling asleep on her... Down in Flames • Personal tragedy played against a background of public disaster leaves one woman stuck in a very personal hell--and hoping for a second chance. Willing • Right now—at this very instant—you are older than you have ever been and younger than you will ever be again. There will never be a better time to fall in love. The Idiot's Guide to Writing Workshops • Or "How I Survived Publishing My First Novel." The Devil and a Hard Place • After all the time spent apart—all the doubts, all the denial, all the lonely nights—a love that refuses to die draws them back together like moths to a flame. (Warning: contains adult content and language.) Like Wild Horses • Sometimes a girl's best friend has four legs and a tale...

Handsomely equipped with a comprehensive introductory historical essay, editor's notes and selected bibliography, this distinguished anthology is a model of genre research. These previously untranslated stories, published from 1871 onward, offer reading virtually unknown to most American (and many German) readers. Some authors combine scientific and philosophical issues, like Kurd Lasswitz in his witty tale "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371, " while others, as in Erik Simon's 1983 title story, pose psychological puzzles involving alien phenomena. Though the earlier stories in particular demand painstaking reading, all of them repay it with rewarding insights into German and Austrian culture and the many possible uses and misuses of science.

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Or is he? In H. G. Wells' acclaimed tale, a stranded mountaineer encounters an isolated society in which his apparent advantage, sight, since all the people are blind, proves less than valuable.

What if you're not like anybody else? What if you can't be? What does it mean to be human? The odds are stacked against the lost and alone. Lucky is alien. Yep she really is an alien, and this edition collects the first four episodes in her tale. Long, long ago, there was war in the heart of the galaxy. The core stars were ripped apart by the fury of that conflict. Lucky is a survivor from it. Her ship charts a careful course, ploughing its lonely furrow between the stars, always away from what she once knew. She'd stop running but it's now all she knows. Eventually she comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion's Belt. Also in this collection, four short stories: After School - civilisation is collapsing, even in the UK. Writing Day - a tale of the last library on Earth. Flower to Tree - all SF nightmares have a beginning. Joe and the Xenophids - humanity are next up on the extinction list. Some explicit content. http: //tparchie.wordpress.com/luck

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Widely known for his humanistic outlook and social realism, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas invariably drew inspiration from real-life situations and characters. In An Evening in Paris And Other Stories, the storyteller charms the reader with aspirational tales of ordinary men and women, guided forward by a lifelong dream. With dabs of magic realism and tales of wishful travel to faraway lands coursing through the stories, this is a fascinating collection. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, born in Panipat, Haryana, wrote stories and novels in Urdu, Hindi and English, which have been translated into several Indian and foreign languages. As a screenwriter, his most famous films have been Naya Sansaar, Saat Hindustani, Jagte Raho, the Palme d’Or winner Neecha Nagar, and well-known Raj Kapoor movies like Awara, Shree 420, Mera Naam Joker and Bobby. His column ‘Last Page’, holds the distinction of being one of the longest-running columns in the history of Indian journalism. Begun in 1935, in Bombay Chronicle, it was published by the Blitz after the Chronicle’s closure, until his death in 1987. In 1969, Abbas was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India. Talking Points Includes some of the finest short stories by the author, journalist and film director Each story provides a glimpse into the humanistic outlook of the writer Encompasses a variety of socially relevant themes that were close to the writer’s heart Includes a milestone interview with Abbas about his views on cinema and filmmaking Worldwide readership/market Students of Literature, schools and colleges, libraries, journalism schools, story/screenplay writers, vintage book collectors and general trade

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He was six years old and the world was to him enormous alive and bewitchingly mysterious. He knew the sky quite well. He knew its deep azure by day and the white-breasted half silvery half golden clouds slowly floating by.

Reproduction of the original: The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan