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On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them pressed against their skin, but they also all now feel a curious new hunger for home: Earth, that place many cannot even remember. The Board of Directors are eager to understand more, and so instruct a commission to interview each of the employees.

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind. Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.

This is the part where I’m supposed to tell you what this book is about. Fine. It’s about how my family got classified. It’s about mandatory check-ins, disappearing neighbors, and the soft, professional tone they use when they tell you it’s too late. It’s about a government that wants your cooperation, but only if it comes with silence. It’s also about Exceed. My partner. My friend. My whatever. He had a plan. Or said he did. I don’t know. I was never really in on it. I think that was the point. You won’t find a revolution in here. Just the moments leading up to something ...

Do Trees Know When They Fall? is a short fiction collection by Damon Stone. These "psi-fi" stories explore the strange, horrific, beautiful, and often ridiculous nature of consciousness — how it can warp and twist in ways that seem unimaginable when it isn't warping or twisting. The collection asks us to question the nature of "the human condition" by viewing it through strange lenses, in the hopes of uncovering whatever insights our "normal" lenses are unable to capture.

Being a hot billionaire just isn't what it used to be... To dirt-poor Wetta, romance novels aren’t a diversion, they’re a life plan. Certain her ticket out of Dullsville lies between those steamy pages, she spends her days crafting her own catalogue of the demure, waiting for her hero-in-a-Jag to appear. Everything changes when she catches sight of “The One”—handsome, bed-hopping billionaire Veego Drake. Convinced he’s her destiny, Wetta crosses the country to track him down and start her glorious new life. Nothing prepares her for the rollercoaster ride that awaits. Treacherous...

Tilda et Elida Svensson, 79 et 72 ans, célibataires, mènent une vie à la routine paisible. Elles font des confitures, vont à l'église et se couchent chaque soir exactement à la même heure. Pas de commodités à l'intérieur de leur maison vétuste : les toilettes sont au fond du jardin, l'eau est à tirer au puits. Tout change à l'arrivée d'un nouveau voisin, Alvar Klemens, ou plutôt de son chat : le félin est pris de frénésie sexuelle en mangeant une des plantes d'Alvar, que celui-ci entretient avec un engrais curieux.

14 fictions réalisées comme de véritables films audio pour vous transporter dans les frissons, le suspens, la tendresse ou l'absurde.

Der neue Roman nach dem Bestseller "Die Ladenhüterin" Der neue Roman von Japans Erfolgsautorin Sayaka Murata erzählt die Geschichte zweier Außenseiter, Natsuki und ihr Cousin Yu, die sich jung verlieben und gemeinsam gegen eine Welt verbünden, die ihnen beileibe nicht nur Gutes will. Im alten Farmhaus der Familie, in dem früher die Seidenraupen ihren Dienst verrichteten, sind sie glücklich, denn sie sind beieinander. 20 Jahre später geht Natsuki an diesen Ort zurück.

It constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including 'The Picnic', a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the Durrells things are seldom straightforward and on this occasion all that could go wrong did go wrong – except Gerald Durrell's sense of humour in recounting the tale. Other hilarious and surreal Roald Dahlesque stories ensue, including the critically acclaimed Gothic horror story 'The Entrance'.

Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga’s twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey, and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house.

In the moss-draped bayous of Caterwaul County, where secrets fester thicker than Spanish moss, a literary legend long presumed dead is resurrected with terrifying consequences. When a cache of Nullis Nemo Nusquama's lost manuscripts unleashes a feverish obsession in his devoted fans, fiction begins to bleed into reality. Jael Jewel, a woman wielding the South's charm like a weapon, knows the swamp's underbelly better than most. She enlists the help of N. N. Nusquama, pen name for her cousin, the volatile writer Cale, to weaponize the myth and cleanse their community of its violent ...

Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.

Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.

It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can’t dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s new twenty-four-year-old CEO, who has more charisma than work experience, the growing distance between D__ and his longtime girlfriend, or a mounting sense of unreality in the wake of the first delirious year of the Trump administration, there’s a sense that things are speeding towards collapse—and that they’ve perhaps been unraveling for some time.

A humorous short story offering a different take on the creation of Homo Sapiens. Every great Sci-Fi story has a twist at the end.

Could you fall in love with an unknown woman after her death just by reading the words and moments she dedicated to you when reading your novels? On July 28, 2018, a particularly hot day, I received in my house a strange package from a sender that was completely unknown to me; That is why, before opening it, I called the shipping company to comment that I did not know the name of the person who sent it and wanted to know what it contained. With the high rates of insecurity in Coatzacoalcos, we were all paranoid and fearful of any possible extortion attempt. They told me that the envelope ...

A surreal theme park where nothing is as it seems. Jade and her sister Louise are in the Belle Epoque, a twisted and strange version. For fans of Poor Things and Westworld, this novella is delightfully absurd.

Are you looking to read something that is entertaining, exciting, fresh, fast-paced, humorous, eccentric, and enjoyable? If so, then this is the book for you. Much like his previous two books offer, this third installment of J.S. Mason’s …And Other series has just as many giggles, chuckles, chortles, guffaws, crack-ups, and laughter of the rolling on the floor and full-belly variety. With silly and zany adventures afoot in these hilarious tales, you can be sure that you’ll be thrown into a journey you’ve never experienced before. Prepare for anthropomorphic characters poking fun at ...

A gritty, darkly satirical short story about power, persuasion, and the peril of turning a blind eye to uncomfortable truths. Set aboard a seemingly ordinary tour bus, this story unpacks how truth can be twisted, trust can be bought with promises, and entire groups can be led astray, not through force, but through flattery, fear, and the seductive comfort of belonging. What begins as a frustrating travel delay quickly spirals into a chilling lesson in manipulation. A charismatic stranger promises salvation, but delivers only chaos, division, and delusion. Some passengers resist. Most stay ...

Que faire lorsque la femme de votre vie décide de vous quitter parce qu'elle vous aime ? Comment sauver le couple de ses parents quand on a huit ans ? Une fille à la dérive peut-elle devenir une fée parce qu'un petit garçon a décidé de croire en elle ? Avec la force, l'humour et le style qui ont fait le succès de tous ses romans, Didier van Cauwelaert, prix Goncourt pour "Un aller simple", nous montre une fois encore comment le quotidien le plus cruel peut basculer dans le merveilleux, et la détresse ouvrir le chemin d'une seconde vie.