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I’m knocked up by my brother’s best friend. Who happens to be my new bosshole. Being forced to start fresh, my older brother gets me a place to stay and a job. I’m a PA for his best friend tech tycoon Warren Harrington. All I have to do is keep things strictly business. Simple, until I see him for the first time in 10 years. Same chiseled jaw and sea-blue eyes that can see right though my fake smile. Lucky for me he’s all sharp edges and grumpy in the office. Until one hot bed thrashing night when he shows me it’s all been a front. I want to hate him, but I feel safe in his ...

If you’ve just fallen into this beguiling treasure, then it’s in your best interest to just spank yourself and throw this book back in the vault where you found it. Because once opened, fabulous words that grow into sentences and paragraphs and stories will leave you with a massive rock-solid sense of the surreal. Leave now and we can both forget about this momentary plunge of lusciousness your eyes were about to feast on. Go! Prevail upon the legendary badassery life that is yours elsewhere. You have been thanked for your no-obligation, risk-free read of this secure blurb and I wish ...

Hörbuch, H. G. Wells, Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Brownlow's Zeitung, Science Fiction, Satire – Lass dich von Alexander Wohnhaas in eine kuriose Welt der Nachrichten entführen, in der Brownlow's Zeitung mehr als nur gedruckte Worte offenbart! Diese fesselnde Erzählung kombiniert scharfsinnigen Humor mit einem Hauch von Zukunftsvision und regt zum Schmunzeln an – ideal, um abends in fantastische Traumwelten abzutauchen. Genieße die ironische Atmosphäre und lass dich von der ungewöhnlichen Geschichte auf eine spannende Reise mitnehmen!

בוקר אחד, באמצע החיים, מתעוררת נעמה נוימן למציאות חדשה. בעלה, אדם בריא ונמרץ, מדריך טיולים, מודיע לה שאינו יכול לקום מן המיטה. למן הפתיחה הזאת, המזכירה את פתיחת "הגלגול" של קפקא, נפרשת לעינינו פרשת היחסים בין אודי, הגבר ש"השבית" את עצמו, לבין אשתו, המנסה להתמודד עם הקרע בחיי הנישואים. במהלך העלילה, שמתקדמת בשינויי קצב מהירים בהתאם לאופיה של המספרת, נעמה, הנעה ללא הרף בין תחושת אובדן מוחלטת להרגשה שמצאה קרקע יציבה, אנו מתוודעים באורח אינטימי לחיי הזוגיות של נעמה ואודי, ודרכם, כמו באמצעות מראה מגדילה, מלוטשת וממורקת להפליא, לחיי הזוגיות של כולנו. "בעל ואישה" הוא רומן מופת על חיי הנישואים.

Shelf Death by Mit Namzo Dive into the darkly whimsical world of Shelf Death, a gripping and imaginative eBook that transforms an ordinary supermarket into an epic battleground of sentient groceries. In the fluorescent-lit aisles of Grimley’s Supermarket, where the doors lock and the lights dim, a hidden war rages. Canned goods, fresh produce, frozen foods, and processed snacks—each faction fights for dominance, driven by survival, pride, and the cold gaze of the Algorithm, a profit-obsessed AI that tallies every move. At the heart of this chaos is Tommy the Tomato, a pacifist dreamer ...

The pandemic has brought them to a secluded Hawaiian monastery.An octogenarian aviatrix struggling with the onset of blindness. Her son, too preoccupied by the writings of Kierkegaard. A psychiatrist, now shunned by his patients, and his paid consort, a Hollywood make-up artist. His twin brother, a priest on non-voluntary sabbatical for a controversy in his parish. A master chef, whose restaurant is shuttered by the pandemic--out on bail for a failed bank robbery attempt. A semi-retired crime boss who realizes he might have a conscience after all. A disgraced former Senator, who goes on ...

Continue Jack's struggle. He never seems to make the right choice, but watching him make the wrong one is usually fairly entertaining. Alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental illness plague him and dog any efforts he makes to improve his lot. Watching Jack is like watching a fly buzzing around a window, banging into it again and again, never understanding that there's glass there. A fly doesn't even have a concept of "glass." Similarly, Jack is ignorant to the ins and outs of being human. How long will you watch him buzz around and smack into the glass? Transgressive author Christopher J. ...

Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His stories have been published in more than eighty reviews, journals, and magazines in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. Power Tools gathers twenty-one of his best short stories into one collection. An elderly woman sets out alone on a journey into a new life. Two soldiers in a bunker share candy and memories. A widower takes on the Supreme Court with a robot. Grief is sung over the cobbled streets of Valletta. Two old heroes question their purpose. These ...

30 very short stories from the even cheaper seats

Пугающая реальность этой фантастической повести родилась из доведенного до абсурда понятия "демократии" - когда каждый индивидуум живет по своим законам и борется против всех и все другие борются против него.

With a three-year prison sentence, Jack had begun his final slide downward. Had he learned anything? Jack fell out of the world for years, off the map, unseen by everybody. He never knew if he was going to wake up in a cozy refrigerator box in a downtown alley or a chilly steel bunk at the county lockup. He'd become a junkie and hardened chronic criminal. His antics had long since ceased to be amusing to those that had used to shelter him. Society no longer deemed him a wayward youth, worthy of a second chance, but instead considered him a hopeless and irredeemable plague on society. During...

AN AMERICAN PHOENIX: ELECTION, BOOK 2 IN THE ALRIGHT SELLING SERIES IS NOW OUT! "The characters are multi-dimensional, and Mr. Savana truly throws in a cross-section of American personalities from every end of the racial, social, and political spectrum. He not only presents them… but he has them down. From the right to the left, from Rapping YouTube 'influencers' to Big Ol Belt Buckle Country Boys, I could SEE these characters, and I couldn’t help to start ‘casting’ this movie as I read." - Amazon Review Reality and Ridicule Collide in "An American Phoenix: Unity" Welcome to Houston...

When Dr. Cline offers Dr. Morrison a large sum of money to take a patient off his hands, it should have been a red flag… but Dr. Morrison disregards it. After all, the patient’s condition is nothing out of the ordinary. How difficult can she be?...

Mila Winston faces the biggest challenge of her life. In a society rampant with childhood neglect, she must earn her license to practice parenthood. Undeterred initially, she arrives at the revolutionary micronation famed for its groundbreaking law. But her hopes of starting a family soon acquire an unexpected complexity. Mila battles a careless adversary who mocks the parental license and unapologetically stands in her way of motherhood. With her dreams on the line, will Mila achieve her ambitions of starting a family? Find out in this farcical, contemporary family fiction novel that ...

A story that pertains to the lives of all human beings conflicted by the constant bombardment of information. In an era where information capitalism assaults us with algorithms that track every careless click, a heartbroken man plunges into an empirical quest for certainties.

Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His stories have been published in reviews, journals, and magazines in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. Broken Luggage gathers twenty-four of his best flash stories into one collection. A man's life condensed into the broken luggage that will contain it. A young woman alone in the Sonoran Desert. Memories of dangerous eggs, thunderstorms, and a gunshot man. A character tours his self-made hell. Another steps from between the pages. Parables of sand and ...

Huesudo es un huesero que suele cargar su camioneta con restos de vacas de las carnicerías. Tiene una manera peculiar de hablar y filosofar sobre la vida en su país, Argentina. Siempre trabaja acompañado del Negro, amigo que siempre le espera para cobrar por su trabajo... y el Guacho, que cobra in situ sus honorarios de ser fiel en la cuesta de la vida. Cuento escrito con mucho lunfardo rioplatense, si usted no pertenece al cono sur, Argentina o Uruguay, es posible que no entienda mucho de la jerga cotidiana originada por la fusión (y deformación) de oleadas de inmigrantes llegadas en ...

"Al despertar Gregorio Samsa una mañana, tras un sueño intranquilo, se encontró en su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto." Tal es el abrupto comienzo, que nos sitúa de raíz bajo unas reglas distintas, de La Metamorfosis, sin duda alguna la obra de Franz Kafka que ha alcanzado mayor celebridad. Escrito en 1912 y publicado en 1916, este relato es considerado una de las obras maestras del siglo xx por sus innegables rasgos precursores y el caudal de ideas e interpretaciones que desde siempre ha suscitado.

Un comune impiegato si risveglia una mattina con le gambe ricoperte da germogli di ravanello giapponese, il daikon. In preda al panico, si rivolge a una clinica dermatologica, dove viene operato d'urgenza da una misteriosa equipe medica. Mentre è ancora sotto anestesia, decidono di trasferirlo in un limbo al confine tra i due mondi... Il malcapitato protagonista inizia così il suo incredibile viaggio nel sottosuolo, a bordo di un avveniristico lettino d'ospedale in grado di essere mosso dalla forza del pensiero.

Alemania ha restringido el número de solicitantes de asilo y Europa ha bloqueado su acceso a través del norte de África. Más allá del Sahara, se están construyendo enormes campamentos donde millones de refugiados esperan, esperan y esperan. Cuando la presentadora estrella Nadeche Hackbusch visita el campamento más grande, el joven Lionel reconoce que tienen ante sí una oportunidad única: con 150,000 refugiados, la atención de la audiencia televisiva está garantizada cuando empiezan a marchar en dirección a Europa.