Showing results for "Ella" in Short Stories

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.

Las historias contenidas en este libro unen en su acción narrativa la reconstrucción intelectual y el drama cotidiano con adecuadas dosis de ficción y realidad, celebrando en cada cuento el gesto cómplice de la vida y la escritura.

Un maravilloso recorrido por la trayectoria narrativa de Javier Marías a través de catorce relatos tan interesantes como perspicaces.

¿Puede refugiarse el alma en una barra de pan? ¿O tener la forma de una guitarra eléctrica llamada Sirena en manos de un joven pescador? Desde la antigüedad, la búsqueda más intensa del ser humano es la del lugar donde habita el alma. He aquí una respuesta actual, sencilla, irónica y sorprendente a ese gran enigma histórico. El resultado de un duro viaje de ida y vuelta a las entrañas. Cada relato de esta nueva colección está protagonizado por las diferentes formas que puede adquirir el alma.

El viaje y la relacion de pareja convergen en un mismo fin: la despedida. Con los titubeos y dificultades de toda ruptura o encuentro amoroso, los personajes de estas historias conducen sus relaciones de pareja hacia un terreno extremo mas alla del cual solo restan el olvido, la desesperanza y la violencia. Hay, entre sus variados protagonistas, jovenes que se dicen adios por indecision, un carabinero que golpea con brutalidad a su mujer tras reprimir una manifestacion contra la dictadura militar en Chile, una madre que maltrata a su hijo.

Richard, a young man from Europe, and Kop, a young woman from Thailand, meet on a fateful encounter in Phuket, Thailand, while they are both on vacation. Nobody could have seen the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 coming, and when it does, it throws a whole new set of challenges into the mix for Richard and Kop. In January 2020, Thailand was the first country outside of China to have Covid cases, and after that, nobody could have imagined what Covid would become in the months that followed.

As beautiful souls, sometimes, our lives can be blighted or blessed by situations or events. The moral in most of my stories is that "the music of life" will take on different themes, rhythms, and moods, however throughout the highs and the lows as individuals, we should carry on and learn from each and every experience. More importantly the key message is that "life" is like a "beautiful rose", but you must be strong when you find some thorns, because a "rose" always comes with thorns.

When a chance meeting at a Broadway show leads to an unexpected attraction, things quickly heat up. With Aaron's hypnotic blue eyes distorting Ari's vision and judgment, the loud traffic buzzing in her ears, his masculine scent filling her nose, his body heat enveloping her and his breath ghosting across her lips, it's inevitable that she give into the temptation of a younger man. How can she deny the allure when she suddenly feels more alive than she's felt in more than a decade?

Smacked is an evocative collection of moments showcasing human nature at its weakest and most vulnerable. Hecq’s poetic prose situates the listener firmly into the lives of her characters, taking them along for the ride as she presents each story with an inimitable flair that retains the realities of addiction and dependency. She handles each moment of fixation with a respect and delicacy that are fitting for such weighty themes, while still doing justice to the physical and mental ramifications and side effects of what some might call mere obsession.

Andrea Green might work for one of the most secret organisations in the world, but fighting the forces of evil comes mostly in the form of endless paperwork and mundane office banter. But when a routine inspection yields unexpected results, the fall out reveals a shattering secret.

Written by Ralph M. Flores, illustrated by family and friends, and published posthumously, these 13 fables, adapted for audio, are fractured in that some are spin-offs on Aesop's Fables and Navajo coyote tales, but all show topical twists unique to Ralph's wry, indulgent humor. The moral at the end of each fable, if we didn't realize sooner, alerts us to the animal characters that are stand-ins for human fools.

Celest didn’t expect to start her new life with the love of her life on such a devastating note. Luckily for her, Dina, a lifelong friend, is always by her side to support her. In her journey to recovery, a handsome stranger moves into the neighborhood. If only she knows how much they have in common.

Michael is a professional photographer. He knows exactly how to take the best pictures and is desperate enough to accept any work when the rent comes due, which is slowly creeping up on him. When he’s offered a new job opportunity from a high-end client, the last thing he expects is to be confronted with an abuse scandal in the midst of the cast.