Magical Realism Short Stories

"I never know which reality I’ll wake up in." Explore Candy's disorienting reality of spending each new day in an entirely new dimension, each with a different partner, job, and unique challenges. Everything changes when she meets another reality-jumper like her.

A young man wakes up in a mysterious land, injured and not knowing who he is. He finds a group of shepherds who he must accompany on their annual journey to the Great Forest to see the Great Star. On this journey, he will discover not only who he is, but where his home really lies.

The tremors were faint, but grew stronger, releasing a swarm of quakes when a cataclysmic super-volcano erupts in North America, killing 100,000 souls instantly. Summer turns into a long winter, lasting more than a decade. Food shortages result in widespread famine. Humanity hadn’t fared well. Looting and riots killed more humans than even the Creator predicted.

Three magical romances set in the contemporary English countryside and the fight for good versus evil....

The fate of seven kingdoms is at stake during an epic card game. A runner flees her broken marriage and barrels straight into her high school reunion. A housebroken husband trades his beloved beagle for a sad, gray donkey. And, a brother and sister chase a ghost down a long and lonesome highway into the haunted forest of their past. Young men and the difficult women who save them, old men, and the dream girls who keep them up at night - join these eight heroes in unearthing the startling truth of what rests under the world.

Twist your way through a spellbinding collection of fairy tales for grown-ups from an esteemed group of fantasy masters. Tales to delight, bewitch, and beguile await within the pages of Fairy Tale Issue, featuring all-new stories by giants of the genre Melanie Tem, Rebecca Hodgkins, Denise E. Dora, De Kenyon, Jim LeMay, Jamie Ferguson, Lucy Taylor, and Steve Rasnic Tem. Follow a little cat who bravely guides a young girl through the dreamworld's dangers in De Kenyon's "The Society of Secret Cats." Witness cunning and courage triumph over evil witches and monsters in tales from Rasnic Tem, ...

In this dark, glittering collection of short stories, Deirdre Sullivan explores the trauma and power that reside in women’s bodies. A teenage girl tries to fit in at a party held in a haunted house, with unexpected and disastrous consequences. A mother and daughter run a thriving online business selling antique dolls, while their customers get more than they bargained for. And after a stillbirth, a young woman discovers that there is something bizarre and wondrous growing inside of her.

A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. The Hive and the Honey is a bold and indelible collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters.

There’s a little bit of everyone’s flavor in this listen, from steampunk love to horrific barters, dinopunk cowboys, and basilisk handlers. This short story collection begs to be heard by those who want their listening experiences to be a bit like a charcuterie board: a literary variety of the best Danielle Davis has to offer. So grab your flashlight and step with her into the darkness tonight!

Con il suo caratteristico stile ironico e surreale, ricco di riferimenti colti e soluzioni linguistiche originali, Roberto Barbolini torna con una nuova raccolta di racconti che esplorano il tragicomico intreccio fra le "basse voglie" del corpo e il richiamo insopprimibile del sacro nell’epoca della sua impossibilità.

Out of time and place, Wreaker walks into a coffee shop on Long Island. They do not take gold bullion for payment. They do not hand pluck their tea leaves from the tree of life. Their tables can't even support the weight of Öfugr, his sacred ancient weapon. So how will he ever get his coffee?

Shattered is one of four short stories in this compilation. Between them, they explore paranormal and ghostly activities, a paddlesteamer wreck and its implications, near drowning and a mystery stranger. The stories explore relationships and reactions between the characters and are infused with atmospheric sound effects.

Home is where we love, suffer and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.

To some this is may seem like a symbolic story of the karmic stagnation of the Human Collective, which is saved by the wisdom and guidance of an over soul, by using the primordial elements of pure creation and the loving union of the Divine Female and Male Principles. Actually, this is just another story of astral space sex, twin flames, tuxedo tee shirts, and one more apocalypse diverted by multidimensional intergalactic sperm.

La Mujer del Mediodía es la colección completa de los diez audiolibros: los cuentos se venden por separado, esta es la versión completa a un súper precio, cada audiolibro tiene su trailer, puede buscarlos y escuchar el trailer de cada uno.

Gritty...grimey...syrup-soaked and jelly-filled. A punctured and oozing tale of true love, abuse, gluttony, and unbelievable revenge, Bermetha and the Whale is the word-for-word account of an audio recording from an incarcerated man in 1980s Ohio. No price is too high to pay to be free from "The Whale", the world's most horrific individual. A unique piece of American literary fiction. A short story in magical realism. A work by Beard Bates.

Award-winning author Ven Begamudré spins three stories in a masterful blend of myth and realism.

Two Tales of Horror and the Paranormal is a two-story bundle. In it you'll see that things aren't always as they seem - that there's a lot more to some humdrum, everyday lives than the people living them ever dared to imagine. And the implications are, well, sometimes frightening...

If you're a Twilight Zone lover or a fantasy freak, this short story about a woman's journey of self-discovery will keep you hooked right up to the end.

Pulled from the furthest region of the multiverse, Traversing the Void is a collection of sci-fi, fantasy, and gothic horror stories filled with irreverent humor and intrigue for mature listeners.