Mexico Short Stories

Kenzie had made some bad choices in her youth that landed her in an all-girls boarding school. She hated the two years she spent there and looked forward to the time when she would be able to go back home to Chicago. Life had other plans though. Her mother had married while she was away and Kenzie was coming back to a whole new family that was so much different than her, as well as traveling to the other side of the country. The biggest challenge came when she met her new stepbrothers, Nate and Shane. Their good looks and charming ways had Kenzie thinking of them in more than a family way. ...

Though the lives of Mexico's characters are effected by the corrupt and dangerous subculture of their country, these are much more than simple "crime stories". They are complicated and deeply moving tales that tap into universal and enduringly powerful themes: love and loss, religion, family relationships, government abuse, sexual identity, professional ambition, cancer; they introduce us to characters that feel fully realized in their humanity.

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupéry1 (Lyon, 29 de junio de 1900 Mar Mediterráneo, cerca de la costa de Marsella, 31 de julio de1944) fue un escritor y aviador francés, autor de la famosa obra El principito, nacido en una familia noble de Lyon.El Principito habita un pequeñísimo planeta, que comparte con una flor caprichosa y tres volcanes. Pero tiene “problemas” con la flor y empieza a experimentar la soledad.

Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the "American Dream."

Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the "American Dream."

This bundle includes Basil of Baker Street, Basil and the Cave of Cats, Basil in Mexico, and Basil in the Wild West.

Una colección de cuentos de H.P. Lovecraft.

Tenía un par de padres divertidos y jóvenes, llenos de sueños y de planes. Pero a mis doce años, cinco meses, tres días y dos horas y cuarto, aproximadamente, me quedé sin ellos. Desde que el tío Paco se hizo cargo de él, Sebastián ha vivido aventuras increíbles: tuvo un encuentro inesperado con un enorme felino, conoció a uno de los últimos vampiros que viven en el df; frente a su casa vio a un mítico personaje saltar de la góndola en la que viajaba, para rescatar a una joven de una inundación.

The Broken road is a compilation of some of Amara’s work. It includes several of her short stories, poetry and previews of her two next works-Merili’s Wine and The Prayer. This is a great read for those that wish for instant gratification. Amara’s stories are poignant, colorful and have the ability to capture the reader’s heart as they get to know her characters. This book is for those that anjoy stories about people who have to overcome obstacles in their lives, contemporary poetry, love and romance stories and a look into the lives of people who must look within themselves to ...

This fourteen short story collection earned Finalist status in the 2012 Grace Notes Publishing: Discovering the Undiscovered, fiction book Contest. Four of the stories, Challenger, The Curb, The Freight Train, and Los Malandros, were published in anthologies and won awards. Stare into a world of despair and urgency. Mexican immigrant characters in the U.S. struggle to find work, dignity, and purpose. Meanwhile, Mexicans living in the Juarez, Sinaloa, and Gulf cartel occupied areas, struggle to stay alive or find meaning from violence and death. From Jesus, the rookie day laborer who learns ...

El barril amontillado, Silencio, El pozo y el pendulo, El cuervo, El entierro prematuro, El retrato oval, El gato negro, La casa de los usher.

This is a short collection of short stories, set mostly in and around Roswell, New Mexico. There a mix of contemporary, adult fiction including a couple of science fiction stories.

The eponymous Warriors was written (and recorded in a single take) in Oxford, in 1997. Copies were first sold by hand to slightly bewildered nightclubbers in Birmingham, after the author had already serenaded them with his guitar; his face badly scarred at the time from a bicycle accident.The stories in this collection are an eclectic mix, some personal, some not. All intriguing.Nick Green is the author of Boathouse to Botswana (2009), Three Journeys to Patagonia (2011), and The Nightwatchman (2020) among others.

The short story collection Gulf refers not only to the physical meaning of the word--several of the stories take place on or near the Gulf of Mexico--but also on the metaphysical meaning, focusing on the human ability--or lack thereof--to bridge the psychological gulfs, and to find emotional healing. Three major currents run through the lives of the characters in Gulf; difficulties in relationships, struggles with identity, and a sense of being haunted by the unexplained.

El miedo que acecha, El modelo de Pickman, Arthur Jermyn, Celephais, La tumba, La Musica de Erich Zann, Del mas allá, La ciudad sin nombre, El horror oculto, La llave de plata, El alquimista

Akashic Books’ acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, Mexico City Noir surpasses that standard with phantasmagorical tales of double-dealing, corruption, violence and self-delusion.... This collection is such a varied literary feast.

Conversación con una momia, El corazón delator, El sistema del Dr Tarr y el profesor Fether (Poe). Del más allá, El modelo de Pickman (Lovecraft). El ladrón de cadáveres, Markheim (Stevenson) El caballo invisible, La habitación que silbaba, La puerta del monstruo (Hodgson)

Una colección de cuentos de horror.

The stories in this collection reflect a fundamental truth about Santa Fe: history depends on who's telling it. Too often the story of this city has been told only by the conquerors and the tourism PR firms. Hear the stories that never make the glossy tour brochures: the working class and the underground, the decolonized and the ever-haunted; the Santa Fe only we know.... Conquered and reconquered, colonized and commodified, Santa Fe understands - from historical genocide to the murders of family members - the intimacy of violence.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor This is another horny, HOT, and DEEP deposit into the Hot Wife Wrecked Entry series. In this 8,000-word paranormal action mystery, a scorned married woman named Donna is taken on a hard and harrowing journey into the esoteric orifices of human consciousness. Now it is apparent that the biggest monsters of all aren't mafiosos, criminals, killers, and assassins... no. There's a bigger, beastly, and hungry alpha male on the block, ...