Storytelling Fiction

Step into a world of wit, wisdom, and wild misadventures in Fools, Frogs, & Folktales, a delightful collection of American short stories that celebrate the humor, quirks, and tall tales of generations past. This anthology gathers twenty timeless stories from literary greats like Mark Twain, O. Henry, and Jack London, alongside other masterful storytellers whose words bring to life the foolish, the clever, and the downright peculiar.

Uma comédia romântica. Uma declaração de amor pela vida, pelo rock e pelas amizades. Uma história imperfeita de personagens muito reais. Como Ser um Rockstar é a história de um adolescente tímido, desajeitado e cronicamente apaixonado procurando seu lugar e seu propósito na vida.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Spy Game, The Dog-Gone Mystery, and The Vampire Mystery.

Step into a world of ambition, folly, and unexpected twists in Pride, Power, and Peculiar Predicaments, a carefully curated anthology of classic American short stories. This collection brings together tales of overconfidence and consequence, where pride clashes with fate, power shifts in unforeseen ways, and characters find themselves in the grip of the strange and the ironic.

Bodett offers his keen, unforgettable observations of the lives of the people of Homer, Alaska, who "just ended up there, and stayed". Includes stories about Clara's coffee cup, Emmitt Frank, Jenuwine McDoogan, "the expert", "a lucky break", "missing youth", "Doug's stuff", and "the best sauna story so far".

This bundle includes The Gymnastics Mystery, The Poison Frog Mystery, and The Mystery of the Empty Safe.

This creative writing audiobook has eight manuscripts in one. Become a great creative writer today!

Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud listen that follows a fictitious group of eight 20- and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man.

Jonathan Paul is a 26-year-old Trinbagonian author currently living in San Francisco, California. Born and raised on the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, he grew up thoroughly enjoying the creative and performing arts: writing essays, performing poetry, acting, and playing the alto saxophone. He left Trinidad and Tobago with an Open Scholarship for his performance in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations and attended Amherst College where he double majored in Mathematics and Psychology.

"Perfectionne ta physique, et tu comprendras mieux la nature ; épure ta raison, bannis tes préjugés, et tu n'auras plus besoin de ton dieu." Tout est là-dedans. L'œil droit et fier, le menton relevé, le buste gonflé. Parfois hautain et arrogant, Sade balayant les arguments en faveur de Dieu et de la religion d'un ton virulent et sans demi-mesure, la prose farouchement athée du Marquis est pleinement esthétique, et même plus, si expressive et savoureuse. Cette rébellion n'est pas vide de philosophie, d'humanisme, d'une certaine forme de sagesse athée, ou d'un esprit raisonnable assez ouvert et doté de bon sens, pour pouvoir sur quelques points séduire même les croyants.

O Protocolo Bluehand é um conjunto de diretrizes e conhecimentos que farão a diferença na subsistência e resistência contra os mais diversos perigos ignorados pelo senso comum social. O codinome Bluehand nasceu no site Jovem Nerd como sinônimo de uma pessoa curiosa e interessada, o típico nerd, aquele sujeito que, por sua inteligência e sapiência, tornar-se-ia indispensável em uma situação de emergência. No entanto, esse termo deve ser extrapolado acima de um único indivíduo, se a raça humana aspira sobreviver a um evento de proporções cataclísmicas.

"Writing is structure,” William Goldman said, but too often aspiring writers plunge into their work without grasping this fundamental principle. Story structure is one of the most important concepts for a writer to understand - and ironically, one of the least frequently taught. In this book, New York Times best-selling author William Bernhardt explains the elements that make stories work, using examples spanning from Gilgamesh to The Hunger Games.

This is the third episode of the popular Baumgartner & Momsen mystery series for German learners. In a seedy internet café, the dead body of a teenager is found. What caused his death? Did he die from exhaustion, or was it murder? Help Kommissar Baumgartner and his colleague, Katharina Momsen, unravel this mystery and improve your vocabulary along the way! Why brood over grammar sheets and lifeless workbooks when you can be entertained and learn natural German along the way?

Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie, is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under the uncertain governance of this riven land. It's a deadly time for young student Will Fowler, short of stature, low of birth but mightily ambitious, to make his name.

In the spring of 2019, Michael Kingswood decided to embark on a Great Challenge, coordinating with one of his writing mentors and committing to sending him a new story every Sunday for a year. Many people attempt this kind of writing challenge. Most fail. Michael crushed it.

In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son’s fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious cat appears in a young woman’s home, as inexplicable as the demise of her years-long relationship with her boyfriend. At turns humorous, sorrowful, and whimsical, this collection spans the familiar setting of a college town supermarket to eerie dystopias that are not just post-pandemic, but post-art.

Remember the stories your grandfather used to tell you about way back when? Remember laughing out loud as the stories got deeper? If you like to LOL, then this really is a book for you. Here you'll find some observations on life in general and people in particular, as seen through a collection of newspaper columns, presenting skewed, offbeat, semiserious, and sometimes amusing views of the world.

Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.

A comedy of errors when four octogenarian Egyptology docents steal a mummy which has no value to find artifacts they know do not exist and are mistaken for a band of professional art thieves.

In all my years of reporting on the human condition, this has to be the most bizarre, and (if true) history shattering interviews I've ever conducted. This story is told by Billy "Big Rig", a pseudonymous truck driver I met over sausage gravy and biscuits in the late 1990s when I was driving a truck to make ends meet. We struck up a friendship, although I think I maybe spoke 10 words to him the whole time I knew him. He did most of the talking. And the way he spun a yarn caused me to be transfixed.