Short Game

Separated from his friends after a college football game in Austin, Texas, Taylor meets a handsome older man named Colin who turns out to be far more dangerous than Taylor could have imagined. After a hook-up in a 6th Street bar bathroom, Taylor agrees to return to Colin’s apartment to continue their sexual exploits, but along the way things don’t exactly go to plan.... This steamy short story by Michael Bracken contains graphic depictions of sexual activity and is therefore strictly for mature adults only.

On Lizzie's seventh birthday, she gets a cute and playful puppy. Little does she know the joy that Peewee will bring into her life. Follow the adventures of Peewee the Playful Puppy! What kinds of adventures will Lizzie and Peewee get into?

Stephen Crane's fascinating story "The Blue Hotel" is seen by many as a study of fear. Crane used the stereotypical 1890's American West as his setting, and the story uses a card game to show how fear feeds upon itself. There are both inner fears and fears existing in reality, and the ways that they interact with each other make for a fascinating tale.

This short story is from the anthology Mitigated Futures. Twelve science fiction stories about the oncoming future, each of them representing a possible glimpse of what could be just around the corner... or much further down the corridor. These stories previously appeared in places like Clarkesworld Magazine, The Year's Best SF, Subterranean Magazine, and in various anthologies. They deal with the future of war, our climate, and technology's effect on our lives.

It's Christmas at Camelot and that can only mean one thing...an eerie adventure is about to begin! Grab a cup of mead, sit back and enjoy this famous Christmas short story told like never before.

Giselle ventured into the kinky game with an open mind, expecting the party game to be lighthearted, fun, and filled with flirting and innuendos. The last thing she thought she would be doing would be submitting her untouched back-door cherry. And in a pair of handcuffs and blindfolded no less....

Busty, young Jennifer is the perfect girlfriend to a budding writer. The young waitress helps her aspiring boyfriend enacting intimate scenes to reveal the true pleasure and emotions of the characters. And so when Ellis struggles with a face-sitting scene, his enthusiastic girlfriend is all too eager to help. It’s not long before Ellis is strapped down, eagerly waiting to be smothered...experiencing the sensation of face-sitting first-hand at the hands of his girlfriend who slowly is beginning to develop dominant tendencies.

The victims are the most popular girls in school, each murdered and arranged in a grim fairy-tale tableau. To find the killer, rookie detective Callum Pederson has gone undercover where the Princes hold court. He’s found enough secrets among the bros to bring them in for questioning - but he could very well get lost in the games the Princes play.

David Joseph's "The Great Hijacking", "Putin's Shoot-Down", and "The Bully" all bundled into one book titled Putin and MH370/MH17. A Boeing 777 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and rendezvouses behind an American tanker refueling fighters, thus falling in its radar. Chinese military computer hackers break into a key defense satellite, a North Korean cargo ship drops a black box into the Indian Ocean, and a home flight simulator has traces of island landings in the Indian Ocean. All the events combine to produce a perfect storm for "The Great Hijacking".

The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable man-made environment. The Grandmaster's Final Game: The Church of St Ignatius of Loyola appeared to be empty but the Reverend Mooney, S.J., still sat waiting in the confessional, squinting at his watch in the shadows.

Auf Sodor ist immer was los! Ein Kohlewaggon verschwindet plötzlich, eine Expresslieferung macht Probleme und aus dem Lokschuppen kommen seltsame Geräusche... Ist dort etwa ein Monster? Dies und noch viel mehr erfahrt ihr in dreizehn aufregenden Geschichten über Thomas & seine Freunde. Erlebe spannende Abenteuer mit Thomas, der kleinen Lokomotive, Gordon, James, Cranky, Diesel, Dexter, Henry und all den anderen Lokomotiven von der Insel Sodor! Geh mit den Loks auf Schatzsuche und gefährliche Rettungsmissionen, löse Geisterrätsel und sei bei der Krönung vom König von Sodor mit dabei.

Una fabulosa novela corta en torno al ajedrez donde los límites de la inteligencia analítica se tocan con el totalitarismo.

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From the deafening cheers of packed stadiums to the sobering silence of retirement, Life After the Game is a raw and unfiltered memoir of John Waters—a four-time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Famer, and one of the most feared linebackers in the history of professional football.

When a group of men crash on the surface of an alien planet, they are hemmed in on every side by a deadly, impenetrable bog and attacked by an unknown, unseen enemy.

Why do you suppose some combat veterans give up the sport of hunting? Is it because they gain empathy with the hunted, or hunting a prey less cunning than they has lost its allure. Richard Connell, in this short story “The Most Dangerous Game” takes us where the hunter becomes the hunted. This hunter is not being hunted by a beast less cunning or calculating than he is, like a lion or a tiger. No, this hunter is a master at his craft, crueler and only slightly better armed than he is.

"The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.