Short Days

It's time now to join the unlikely best friends Josh Mundy and Vern Ernesto as they embark on their first ever fishing trip without adults. The joys of camping and a crackling fire make them sleepy and prepare them for a day of creek fishing high in the mountains... or does it? Can anything truly prepare them for what is about to happen? It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that they will never be able to talk about and it goes beyond the trophy trout they are about to catch.

Brad had all the advantages last round when the play happened in the kitchen, so Anna must dream up her best plan if she is to win this challenge. Even though she gets caught with a vegetable shoved in her cleavage in the produce section, she’s not deterred—she intends to win. Shedding her inhibitions and sometimes reveling in them, she slowly seduces Brad to cave in to her sexual charms. But he’s not laying down dead, he throws a few kinks in her toolbox during the playful shopping trip. When the grocery list is almost complete, they both relish the delicious rise and fall.

The third Christmas horror anthology from horror master Rick Wood.

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come 12 never-before-published stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena. With returning characters from the Essex Witch Museum series and a weirdly wonderful tale for each day of Christmas, these spooky stories are the perfect companion for long, dark winter nights.

This is an omnibus that features all three volumes of Twelve Days of Christmas Horror in one box set. Including such stories as "'Twas the Night Before Murder", "The Nativity of the Living Dead", "Secret Santa for the Sadistic", "Elf on a Shelf", and "A Christmas Carol: The Aftermath". It's time for your festivities to get frightening.

Efemerides en el Comite; es la historia de un partido poltico en medio de una campana electoral. La historia tiene lugar en el local de esta campana, en el que se renen hombres con ambicion pero sin impulsos. Es una representacion de la clase politica Irlandesa, y de la iglesia. Como todas las historias de Joyce esta tambien esta llena de simbolismos.

Welcome to the town of Kismet Bay where magic and fate are a way of life...Have all eight stories in one place and all new bonus material! Listen to the series epilogue never before been published! Follow the Strange family through their journey to love and their eventual happy-ever-after.

Davey’s Rule number 85: Daddy will always treat his boy like he's Daddy’s world...because that’s how it should be! Revisit all your favorite couples and families from Daddy’s Lap in this five-part, seven-story collection that shows them all living their happily-ever-afters. This collection of shorts is number eight in a series about not-so-perfect Daddies, adorable “boys”, and one sassy brat with an insane list of rules.

This delightful short story was the first work of Jules Verne to be translated into English by Anne T. Wilbur in 1852. Just as the balloon starts rising, a stranger jumps in with the intention of taking it as high as possible without regard to his own safety or that of the pilot. During the long journey, this mysterious passenger relates the historical background of the quest for lighter-than-air travel.

Special effort was made to capture the dialect in these seven gems carefully lifted from the treasures of life in New England at the turn of the century.

This multiple award-winning collection of 5-, 10- and 15-minute short stories bring joy, spark creativity and foster connection. Perfect for bedtime, car trips, and homeschool storytime. Journey with magical characters and explore wildly creative worlds. Everyday Icing stories are sure to make sharing a story the sweetest part of your day.

Rochester and Merle are two ghosts who help children in need. Their first adventure brings them to a carnival to protect Scotty and his aunt and uncle against the dastardly deeds of Mr. Greenfinger and his henchmen....

Durante años Jeanette Winterson ha escrito un relato cada Navidad: cuentos llenos defantasmas y de carámbanos, de trineos y de muérdago, pero con esa dosis de ironía y reflexión que solo ella es capaz de transmitir.

The night writers in Cousineau's vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac) writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love, and languorously greet the first rays of dawn.

A camping trip that went very bad, running for your family's very life, a writer whose words come to life in a horrible way and a magical wall, so thin it can be torn by a whisper. These are the stories that come to life and pull you inside their pages. Life is busy and there isn't always time to sit and read a 400 page novel. Inside the pages of this book, you will find stories as alive and contagious as any full length novel. The difference? The stories are 1/4 the length of the full length novel.

A man in an insane asylum believes his handlers are lizard-people wearing human skin.

Do you ever get bored? I bet some of you do! I'm Lady Hershey, and I have a little brother named Mr. Linguini. He used to always say, "I'm bored!" Then I introduced him to a beautiful world of little stories, and now he just loves to discover the magic in listening. We hope you will also enjoy listening to these little daytime stories I wrote. As you keep learning to listen, you will discover how magical it is to use the power of your imagination and you won't be as bored, I promise you! Whoo hoo hoo!

Lila is just about to close up shop at The Spine Mine in downtown Conners Switch, Indiana, until one last straggler walks through the doors. Late at night. While she's there alone.

An audiobook of short stories recalled from a life lived on the edge.

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in New York City, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of young-adult literature’s top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that each ingeniously pick up where the last one ends.