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With the onset of Prohibition, the Sheehan Billiard Room in Chicago became a sordid haunt for hard drinkers. A certain Old Bugs, a mature man corroded by vices but capable of showing, at long intervals, the typical sensitivity of educated people works as a kitchen cleaner. When the young Alfred Trever, initiated by his friend Pete Schultz on the way of drinking, arrives at the Sheehan's tavern, Old Bugs will try to convince him not to make the same mistake as he did.

Old Bugs ist eine parodistische Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft, die erstmals 1959 veröffentlicht worden ist. Sie handelt von einem mysteriösen Säufer namens Old Bugs. Im Mittelpunkt der Erzählung steht ein Säufer namens "Old Bugs" im Jahr 1950, der in einer Kneipe Chicagos als Putzkraft arbeitet. Wer er wirklich ist und was er in seinem früheren Leben gewesen war, weiß man nicht. Aus seinem alten Leben hat er nur noch das Foto einer edel aussehenden Frau, über die er jedoch nicht reden möchte.

"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959) With the onset of Prohibition, the Sheehan Billiard Room in Chicago became a sordid haunt for hard drinkers. A certain Old Bugs, a mature man corroded by vices but capable of showing, at long intervals, the typical sensitivity of educated people works as a kitchen cleaner.

"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959).

With the onset of Prohibition, the Sheehan Billiard Room in Chicago became a sordid haunt for hard drinkers. A certain Old Bugs, a mature man corroded by vices but capable of showing, at long intervals, the typical sensitivity of educated people works as a kitchen cleaner. When the young Alfred Trever, initiated by his friend Pete Schultz on the way of drinking, arrives at the Sheehan's tavern, Old Bugs will try to convince him not to make the same mistake as he did.

A spider, blown by the wind to a fence post near a farm yard, begins to build her web and cannot be distracted from the task at hand - not by the horse, cow, sheep, goat, or dog. But when the rooster asks if she wants to catch a pesky fly, the busy spider is able to catch it in her web immediately!

Dookie needs to win his stool school back from Al Capoop's gang. Brownie is trying to get rich on baby poop. Will these dung beetles help one another profit or perish? Dookie is a typical hungry young dung beetle who spends his day ordering poop from delivery services and attending stool school, where he is the star student and the teacher's pet bug. So when Dookie forgets to lock the gates, Al Capoop and his gang transform the school into a poop casino, and Dookie is to blame. Now all the bugs are hating on the little beetle. Brownie is about to make a fortune on baby poop—dung beetle ...

One day, a little cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. But the little cricket cannot make a sound. The cricket meets many insects, but it isn't until he meets a beautiful female cricket that he can finally chirp "hello!"

He loves animal poop. She's a vegeturdian. Will these two dung beetles have their friendship destroyed over their poop choices? Most dung beetles roll themselves a pooball and go home. Not Dookie. His junk-poop obsession knows no limits. But Dookie's poop freedoms are under threat. An aggressive plant-poop movement has swept across Poop Town, causing a health-poop craze that has divided the beetle community. Dookie and his best friend Turdy join the resistance by following Donald Dump to 'Make Poop Great Again.' But when the vegeturdian beetles deliberately constipate the jungle animals, a ...

She needs an elephant pooball to lay her eggs. Her son eats dungballs like there's no tomorrow. Can he control his hunger so his Mom can give birth? Dookie is a well-meaning little dung beetle who gets easily distracted by anything poop related. His mother is about to lay eggs, so she sends Dookie off into the jungle to roll a dung ball. But while rolling the pooball home, Dookie and his friend Turdy accidentally eat the whole thing! Now the jungle is all out of poop and Mom is in labor--without a pooball! Can Dookie find an elephant pooball to redeem himself? Will he make it back in time ...

Dookie the Dung Beetle just wanted a simple meal at McDumps, but fate had other plans! When he and his friend Pierre, a timid praying mantis, get captured by the local bully and thrown into a bizarre bug circus, things quickly go from bad to worse. Now, instead of enjoying his favorite fast poop, Dookie finds himself showing off his poop-tasting skills to a crowd of amazed kids. But there’s more at stake than just Dookie’s pride—Pierre is in serious danger of losing his head to a hungry female mantis! With big cousin Brownie and their pal Turdy hatching a daring rescue plan, the ...

Are many nostalgic accounts of the good old days examples of selective forgetfulness? Before you argue the point, read the fourteen short stories in THE GOOD OLD DAYS? They are loosely based on actual recollections of childhoods in the 1940s, 1950, and 1960s. These tales address major historical events and societal problems in the idiosyncratic way of memoirs. They are snapshots of events from one individual’s viewpoint, and the narrator for each story is different. Although the quirks of characters in these tales are amusing, one aspect of several of these vignettes—child and spousal ...

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever.

Tallulah the spider and her friend Buck the horse live in a meadow at the edge of the Old Forest. One day a dark and dense fog creeps into the Meadow, and Buck enters a deep and dreamless sleep. The very life of the Meadow is threatened. Tallulah doesn’t know how to help her friend until a tiny magical bird tells her the secret of how she can fly.

In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who try to understand him when he gets into trouble at school. His father, a data analyst for Nutella whose real job is to pinpoint terrorists, is clueless about humans in real life. His brilliant brother, called IQ in public and Robin Hood in the hackersphere, has his back but is ever busier training his robot.

LA HORMIGUITA AMIGABLE, es un hermoso y divertido cuento para bebes y niños, lleno de coloridas imágenes. El cual enseñará a sus hijos grandiosas lecciones, valores y principios fundamentales. Ayudando así a la formación del carácter, fortaleciendo el control del dominio propio. Les Instruye sobre la importancia de ser altruistas y ayudar a los demás. Este, inculcará a sus niños el beneficio de la perseverancia para el logro de los objetivos. Además, les animará a ser mejores personas cada día.

The seventh short story of the Free Nightmares series. Find yourself the victim of a hybrid bug unknown to science. Have you ever wondered what the characteristics of a hybrid could lead to? Sometimes it leads to a species that should not exist...