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"Scooter" is also available in the collection Easy Money & Other Stories. Is the situation depicted in this grotesque tale of absurd cruelty funny or merely disturbing? Must a protagonist in a work of fiction be likable? Is it sometimes more interesting to read about characters behaving horribly? "I expected to find Scooter sprawled on the floor completely disabled, but when I turned, he was running at me on his hands like some monstrous crab. The stiletto, drenched in blood from his shattered nose, was clenched in his mouth." A strange tale some readers have enjoyed and found darkly ...

Charlie Chambers is a young and cute submissive boy ("cute like a corgi who would carry your slippers to you in bed every morning") living in Bangkok, fantasizing, and trying to make a name for himself as a writer and vlogger. But he's naive to the ways of the world. So naive that he must be trained by the bar girls of the White Rabbit, a go-go bar in Sukhumvit, and he must be punished for his sins.Amara is an Amazonian vixen.

A tender, poetic journey through the seasons of a woman’s life — where love, loss, and renewal move out of rhythm with the world around her. Life rarely unfolds in time with the seasons. While spring promises new beginnings, she faces the loss of her mother. As summer blazes, her marriage unravels in the heat. In autumn, career and certainty fall away like leaves. And when winter comes, she sits alone beside the fire, learning to be warmed by memory rather than company.

L'Empire du bien n'est pas un essai, c'est une charge, une provocation, un éclat de rire grinçant lancé contre le conformisme du monde moderne. Philippe Muray y démonte avec une ironie cinglante les travers d'une époque où le divertissement se confond avec la morale, où la critique est suspecte, où l'enthousiasme obligatoire dicte les règles. Dans la langue au panache aussi superbe qu'excessif d'un moraliste sous nicotine, Muray s'attaque à une société qui transforme tout en fête forcée et où la liberté de penser s'efface derrière le masque du bonheur collectif.

The spiritual and comedic journey of two unlikely friends, Mowbray and Turner, who are desperately trying to get back to the city after a drug and booze-fueled weekend at a music festival in the countryside.

Rule #1 for your first job... do not fall for your Billionaire Boss! My dream job in the big city came with a brooding billionaire, Christian Kincaid. Despite his harshness, he is captivating. His gruff demeanor hides a man who fiercely protects his daughter. Our stolen kiss revealed our attraction is undeniable, but it's off-limits. As our enemies collaborate, looming danger threatens to break down everything. My guarded heart was shattered by my single dad boss. Fate intervened and we can't deny our feelings any longer. Now I want to wake up in his arms every morning and be the mommy that...

Gregor, a travelling salesman, awakens one morning only to discover that he has transformed into a giant insect. His family is repulsed by him not knowing what to do. Gradually things start getting overturned because of the mishap, and Gregor's life crashes like a house of cards. The...

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

This is a cold book — in heart and in soul — because its subject demands nothing warmer. What if one man controlled all the money in the world—and no one could find him? Eirik Varga has spent twenty years in a windowless room, nursing grief and studying the invisible machinery of global finance. Then he finds it, a fleeting fracture in the system, a microsecond where the rules no longer apply. One exploit is all it takes. What starts as a private proof of concept spirals into something unstoppable. Millions become billions. Trillions vanish into shadows. Markets stutter, institutions ...

No siempre se trata de buscar la copa. A veces, se trata de buscar lo que hay dentro de ella. Lance no desea nada más que estar ahí para combatir los dragones de su amada princesa Alexandra. Con su fiel corcel a su lado, se embarca en la búsqueda del elixir mágico que solo se encuentra en el Santo Grial. Con su poder fortalecedor, enfrentarse a una vieja bruja, al bosque hechizado y al extraño ogro que vive bajo un puente debería ser pan comido. Pero cuando se trata de los dragones de Alexandra, las cosas están muy lejos de ser lo que aparentan. ¿Será suficiente el regalo de Lance,...

*****UNA NOVELA DRAMÁTICA CON UNA PUERTA ABIERTA A LA IMAGINACIÓN***** Charly atraviesa una mala racha de trabajo, que viene alargándose durante años. Acostumbrado a trabajar como subcontratado, no cesa en su empeño por lograr un empleo digno, sin llegar a conseguirlo. En su particular visión del mundo, que comparte junto a su pareja Pepi, la imaginación y la fantasía son mucho mejores que la dolorosa realidad. Alrededor de su mascota Lola, Charly y Pepi frecuentan una realidad alternativa y más favorable, donde todo lo que no tiene importancia adquiere la relevancia que ellos ...

A philosophical absurdist play about control, contentment, and the courage to stop.

Lazar works for the Ministry of Intangible Assets, cataloging things no one can touch—nostalgia, regret, silence. His life is orderly, gray, and safely meaningless until an expired packet of powdered soup lets him see the world's hidden metadata.Suddenly, objects have souls, people come with warning labels, and a mysterious group known as the Happy People threatens the foundations of a society built on control and quiet despair. Sent to inventory happiness before it spreads, Lazar is pulled into a collapsing city where kebab stands anchor reality, demons file paperwork, and time itself ...

The war was supposed to be over. Then the Meat Mafia moved in. Brenda Miller thought surviving a vegan-versus-carnivore marriage was hard—until her mother-in-law arrived with a smoker the size of a missile, a stepfather known as The Butcher, and a philosophy that treats vegetables as enemy propaganda. When their backyard becomes ground zero for wild boar, pig pits, and a testosterone-fueled “Wolf Pack,” Brenda realizes this is no longer a lifestyle disagreement. It’s an occupation. As the Meat Mafia tightens its grip—recruiting her husband, indoctrinating her son, and hijacking ...

La clinica è sempre lì : su per la Fuyachodori, ovest sulla Rokkakudori, giù per la Tomikojidori, est per la Takoyakushidori. Anche il trattamento che offre è lo stesso, unico e speciale: a ciascuno, secondo il caso, si prescrive un gatto. In questo secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Ishida Syou incontriamo Moe, una giovane ragazza che ha paura di lasciare il fidanzato e ritrovarsi da sola; Tatsuya, alle prese con la morte della moglie e la distanza con il nipote Hayato; Reona, che dovrà prendersi cura del fratello tornato a casa dopo tanto tempo.

Qui, nascosta tra condomìni anonimi e vicoli bui, c'è una clinica speciale. Il trattamento che offre, infatti, è unico nel suo genere: a ciascuno, secondo il caso, si prescrive un gatto. Ad affidarsi con un po' di sorpresa e di iniziale scetticismo alle cure feline saranno un impiegato stufo delle sopraffazioni, un uomo che si sente sempre fuori posto, una ragazzina immalinconita dal rapporto conflittuale con la madre, una stilista di borse alla ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio emotivo e un'apprendista geisha oppressa dal senso di colpa.

Wasteland Mandala is a genre-b(l)ending literary novel that follows a first-person narrator through repetitive cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

Nearly broke and on the run, Lilac regrets getting what he'd wanted most in life: winning Grandmother Harry's Silverbell Soup and Woodworking Award. People hate him everywhere he goes, religious leaders condemn him, politicians want to ban him, children pelt him with rocks. When he finds a haunted house that at first appears abandoned he finds a most distasteful means of redemption.

When his agent told the popular TV sports analyst and motivational speaker he was messianic, the young, charismatic man thanked him for the compliment which he promptly dismissed as mere agent hyperbole. When the avaricious agent told him he was going to start a teleministry and wanted him to be his money-making preacher, he politely refused. And when the greedy, fiendish agent threatened his family if he didn't accept the job, he knew he had a problem. Berkeley-born Toby Gates sought the help of the Banter Foundation. This delightfully eccentric group not only funds various charities but ...

Steve Capone, Jr. shares three of his previously unpublished works from the last half decade or so. They are a bit odd. Wonder what it might have been like to see Jesus push a kid off a roof? Why an upstanding young woman might be breaking into a thrift shop after hours? Or what a man earning his million-miler recognition might have sacrificed to earn such high esteem? Three shorts answer these questions, at least in the mind of their author.