Modern Short Stories

A dangerous wave of madness is sweeping across a city. A young girl becomes the conduit for a haunted house. An abandoned theater is the gateway to a darker world. Do you believe in ghosts? You will. This collection of the best stories from award-winning NoSleep horror author Kyle Harrison will have you questioning your sanity while you keep the light on while listening to the book.

This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen best-selling middle-grade authors - including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie, and Jennifer A. Nielsen - who have created original short stories and modern-day fairy tales based on the lives and dreams of children they have met who all have two things in common: They have very big hopes and dreams, and they are all cancer patients.

Fantasy author Ken Altabef lends his unique voice talents to a modern reading of 13 classic tales (and six poems) by Edgar Allan Poe.

Una moglie ama il marito, lo ama così tanto che ogni giorno si porta il suo membro al lavoro, nel cestino del pranzo accanto ai panini e ai biscotti. Un uomo che non mangia arance incomincia a manifestare una profonda e inquietante ossessione per questi frutti e la loro decomposizione. Una donna una mattina si sveglia e scopre che la sua caviglia destra è blu, poi anche l’altra caviglia, poi le gambe.

Inspired by classic books like The Little Prince, these delightful fables follow a variety of charming animal characters as they embark on fantastical yet profoundly relatable quests.

We never forget the stories we were told as children. Even when they are not on the top of our mind, they lurk like palm prints on the drying cement foundations of our understanding of the world. We absorb the pluck of children in the face of adult perfidy, cheering the heroism of Hansel and Gretel or Beauty and the Beast. Counterpoised by the wickedness and cruelty of parents, stepmothers, and wolves in sheep's clothing, children's wiliness usually leaves them unharmed, if not heroic. As adults, we keep returning to them again and again in film, in theater, and in books.

What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags, and personal spacecraft? They're among the multiple venues where award-winning writer Tania Hershman sets her unique tales in this spellbinding debut collection. This audiobook, adbridged from the original collection, is read by the author, Tania Hershman.

Clarice Lispector gilt neben Virginia Woolf als bedeutendste Schriftstellerin der Moderne. Zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag erscheint der zweite und letzte Band ihrer gesammelten Erzählungen in der gefeierten Neuübersetzung von Luis Ruby. Hannelore Hoger, eine große Kennerin und Verehrerin Lispectors, liest ihre persönlichen Lieblingserzählungen aus beiden Bänden. Mit ihrer markanten Stimme und einem tiefen Verständnis für die komplexen Gefühle, die hinter Lispectors nur scheinbar einfacher Sprache aufscheinen, verleiht sie dieser Prosa einen kongenialen Ausdruck.

The Reality Beneath is a collection of short stories written by SULI Daniel Johnson. They are written in his distinct brand of science fiction that can be defined as stories that make you think. The Reality Beneath encompasses a good example of SULI Daniel Johnson’s unique style. He takes current topics and situations and looks at them from a new perspective. The genre is technically science fiction, yet quite often, it comes very close to reality broadening the perspective to look at things in a new way. It includes:

Ce sont trois contes écrits par Valérie Bonenfant, lus par Fabienne Prost. Le conte J’habite une flaque d’eau est illustré de façon sonore par Julien Jammes, designer sonore. La mer a des boutons : Alerte ! La mer est malade, elle est pleine de boutons blancs sur son eau de surface, mais que lui arrive t-il ? Elle n’est pas bien du tout. Peut-on la sauver ? L’oiseau et le sac : Un conte, où parfois le vent fait voler de drôles d’oiseaux. Vous n’en avez jamais vus ? Mais, si, ils sont colorés, transparents et pas toujours propres.

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a mental patient tries to get help from a rabbi to smooth over family problems his manic episodes cause.

A collection of modern-day fairy tales, including "Sleeping through the Beauty", "Hearts on Fire", "The Beauty in the Beast", "The Magic of Snow Magic", and "Falling for Cindy Fellars".

Three grownup Tales from the Dreamtime in one novella…Open the door and enter the Dreamtime, the world of fairytales, the flower of all that is delightful and mysterious, frightening and amazing.

A Modern Lover was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. A young man returns home to his first love to declare his feelings for her but the moment is lost when the girl will not give herself sexually. This theme was to be explored fully in Lawrence’s novel, Sons and Lovers.

Let yourself be swept away by these classic tales of hope and courage!!

- Classic tales (short stories and poems) of hope and courage from the 19th and 20th centuries

Annotated for modern listeners

The third entry in the Classic Tales series, joining "Classic Tales of Horror" and "Classic Tales of Christmas"

For adventure fans of all ages, these stories are guaranteed to intrigue, delight, and sometimes take you by surprise!

Das Flugzeug, aus Rom kommend, landet auf der Piste vor Venedig. Die Maschine ist spärlich besetzt.

Onasidan bevaqt ayrilgan qizcha kelajakdagi hayotini "Zumrad va Qimmat" ertagi asnosida ko'radi. Otasi olib kelajak ayol ertakdagi O'gay ona kabi yovuz va berahim. Biroq qizchani dahshatga solgan qo'rqinchli hayollar uni ko'rishi bilan parday to'zg'iydi. Va u o'zining Yangi ertagini to'qiydi.

Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen. This collection contains a fresh, modern translation of one of Mimei Ogawa’s most famous works, "The Mermaid and the Red Candles", as well as several other stories that have never been translated and published in English before.

Do you ever wonder if there is a gnome living in the hole at the bottom of the old tree in the park? Have you ever felt like you weren't alone while in the woods? Did you know that elves are responsible for many of our day-to-day occurrences? If your mind ever fills with these kinds of questions, then these modern fairy tales are for you!

>"Modern Man Is Ultra Quick" is a short-story about ugliness and beauty in our surroundings - and about attachment and alienation, about trying to find one's place. We experience Leicester through the eyes of Krystof, a hardworking East-European immigrant, but as it turns out, he is not the only one feeling estranged and disenchanted. Litcast is selected short fiction.