Short Family

A man's encounter with his mother's first love redefines his past and changes the course of his future. This story is an excerpt from the full collection, While I'm Still Myself, available everywhere books are sold.

After the violent, shadowy events surrounding his father's disappearance and his siblings' disbandment, Martín flees Mexico City with his wife, newborn son, and dog. Isolated and homesick in Madrid, Martín awakes one sticky, hot morning, quietly overwhelmed by the circumstances - his growing aversion to his son, the dog's sudden illness, and the vague unresolved danger from his abandoned homeland.

This feel-good story will restore your faith in "Happily Ever After". If you believe that love really can conquer all - even real life - then Love in a Garden: What Happens After Happily Ever After is for you! This is a quick story you can listen to at lunchtime.

When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of failure? Sitcom families of the past—the Cleavers, the Bradys, the Conners—didn’t seem to lose any sleep about their parenting methods. Today, parents are likely to be up late, doomscrolling on parenting websites. In Long Days, Short Years, Andrew Bomback—physician, writer, and father of three young children—looks at why it can be so much fun to be a parent but, at the same time, so frustrating and difficult to parent.

Fungi and human families are the threads that tie the fabric of all these tales together. In The Freaky Fungal Family Tree, there are few things that are as they appear to be. You’ve been duly warned. Now, from this point on - listen at your own risk!

Five short stories set in Texas, and featuring characters from all my current fiction work, are included in the first collection. Two are set in Galveston, and three in Austin. Four of the stories also serve as prequels to my first novel, The Children, presenting the full extended family, including all six cousins, the grandparents and parents, in action with each other and the world around them.

Wenn die drei Thalbach-Frauen mit verteilten Rollen E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Nussknacker und Mausekönig" sprechen, Enkelin Nellie die Weihnachtsgeschichte berlinert und (Groß-)Mutter Katharina und Tochter Anna Thalbach ihre liebsten Weihnachtsgedichte und -märchen vorlesen, dann fangen Augen an zu leuchten, dann wird selbst dem größten Weihnachtshasser warm ums Herz.

Polly’s fourth-grade daughter has been spending a lot of time with her classmate Sylvie—maybe too much. Sylvie’s clothes are a little…flashy…and her phone (a ten-year-old with a phone!) doesn’t seem to have any parental controls. It seems that Sylvie’s mother, with her vape pens and her too-high heels, may not be making good choices. As Polly tries to exert a positive influence, she discovers just how little anyone can tell about a family from the outside.

In a moment of uncontrolled passion, Harvey Jones commits an act that triggers an avalanche of pain and suffering in the lives of those he loves. When he bargains with God for the life of his son, Harvey faithfully fulfills his side of the deal...but he's blindsided by betrayal when God doesn't. What will it take for him to open his heart and accept the gift of Grace he's offered?

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables . The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress: Patty came in from her walk to the post office with cheeks finely reddened by the crisp air. Carry surveyed her with pleasure.

Full of humor and pathos, as Southern stories ought to be, the 15 short shorts in this debut collection will haunt you. From simple family dysfunction to tragic twists of fate, the characters in Surviving Nashville suffer their losses with surprising grace. Stacy Barton is a storyteller with an ear for dialect, an eye for detail, and a heart for her characters - even the mean ones.

'Tis Herself: Short Story Collection, Volume One focuses on the small and the not so small events in the lives of ordinary people. These stories move us to laugh and cry as we encounter the twists and turns of dealing with everyday life.

Come along on a journey with characters Tiffany and Beth as they learn to love and to appreciate themselves for who they are as strong, wise, beautiful, and fully melanated individuals, through trials they face against others in the real world.

Peggy Square blankets are a New Zealand institution. Knitted in individual squares, the whole is greater than the parts.These stories by Josie Laird are individual and charming, thought-provoking, and gruesome. As a collection, they seek to warm and entertain you, and maybe have you in stitches!

An everyday tragedy brought into stark relief and elevated to high drama by the skilled pen of Maria Krestovskaya, as she focuses her listeners' attention on someone whose life would have otherwise gone unnoticed.

"The Test" is a short, powerful piece that describes a day in the life of a woman, whose past comes to haunt her just as she thinks she is settled and perfectly safe in her life. Faced with memories of long ago as well as considerations and responsibilities of today, she must make a difficult choice she knows will change her life and affect the lives of those around her.

Out of the Light of Darkness is a compelling collection of short stories that deal with ephemeral moments, unforgettable relationships, and death. The longest story, a novella, tells the tale of a teen trying to understand and find the good in his father. Listeners will be pulled into the story as they see Matty struggle to see light in a man who is shrouded by darkness.

When a man marries a woman because she becomes pregnant with his child, family matters to him. Dave and Phyllis dated in high school. When she got pregnant, he knew the honorable thing to do was to marry her. As the years went on, he stayed because of their daughter, getting along with his shrew of a wife as best he could. Then Dave left for a business trip, and came home to horrifying news; his teenage daughter got pregnant, and was forced into an abortion....by her mother. Now that Phyllis has crossed too far over the line what will he do? How does one live with the woman he stayed with because of obligation to family destroying his family?

Berührende Erzählung aus dem Leben einer Pariser Familie. Im vierten Stock eines Mehrfamilienhauses in einem Neubauviertel von Paris lebt die Familie Joyeuse. Vater Joyeuse, der tagsüber in einem Büro bei Hemmerlinge und Sohn arbeitet und seine drei Töchter. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau lebt der Witwer einzig und allein für seine Töchter und geht voll und ganz in seiner Familie auf. Herr Joyeuse besitzt eine überaus lebhafte Phantasie und gibt sich oft seinen Tagträumen hin - den schönen und den weniger schönen.

La madre, sumida en la desesperación y el odio hacia su propio hijo, decide explotarlo exhibiéndolo como una atracción grotesca para ganar dinero. Gorki utiliza esta trama para explorar temas de miseria humana, crueldad y marginación, ofreciendo una reflexión profunda sobre la naturaleza de la compasión y la desesperación en las capas más bajas de la sociedad.