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The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

『水切り』(著者：野尻武大) やばい学校遅刻しそう 好きな漫画を語り合える友達欲しい… 隣のババア香水の匂いきつすぎーー。 誰も彼もがSNSに直接脳みそがつながっているかのごとく、心の声をダダ漏れさせては無責任な発言を繰り返す。

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco...

Brought to you by Penguin. A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story 'Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite...

―――【収録作品】「国民的未亡人」誰もが知るスター俳優であった夫を亡くした私は、一般人にして有名「未亡人」となった。

岐路に立ち、惑う人々に贈る 喪失と再生の記憶。この物語は、あなたの明日をやさしく照らす――絵本作家として活躍する高城好子はかつて美弥子の継母だった。

37 stories, more than 600 pages, the ultimate collection of Tchaikovsky’s short(er) fiction. Delve within... Hungry ants that want to reconstruct the world in their own image. Occult investigations into private clubs. A philosopher’s attachment to his beloved pet. A new definition of...

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Esta coletânea de contos de Dalton Trevisan, organizada por Caetano Galindo e Felipe Hirsch com contribuições do próprio autor, oferece um passeio pela obra do vampiro de Curitiba. Encontramos, aqui, os personagens recorrentes de uma cidade cujo imaginário Trevisan ajudou a construir.

The Elusive Bullet by John Rhode is a finely crafted Golden Age detective story that showcases the author's hallmark precision, ingenuity, and methodical approach to crime-solving. Featuring the meticulous Dr. Lancelot Priestley, one of classic detective fiction's great analytical minds, the story presents a baffling case in which science and logic are the keys to the truth. When a seemingly straightforward shooting results in a death under circumstances that defy explanation, the physical evidence tells an impossible story: the bullet that should solve the crime appears to have vanished.

Whimsical and zany but edged with darkness, evocatively lyrical with goosebump-eliciting endings, Gretchen Astro Turner's 13 short stories in But I Digretch are for the romantic in all of us-but also the cynic. This fiction collection is for the surrealist and the dreamer.

On Christmas Eve, a reformed criminal is pulled into one last job by his cousin, and finds that his past will always haunt him. GIVING FROM THE BOTTOM is one of ten stories in Kristopher Triana's short story collection GROWING DARK.

As two police officers search for survivors in a town flooded by black rain, they discover strange creatures lurking beneath the water. FROM THE STORMS, A DAUGHTER is one of ten stories in Kristopher Triana's short story collection GROWING DARK.

Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai’s legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. Beginning with “Memories” (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on the autobiographical events that inspired Dazai’s famed No Longer Human), and ending with “Good-Bye” (the chapters of a comic romance that the author left unfinished when he took his own life), the short works here show the range and breadth of an author best known for his meditations on squalor and despair.

Cast out by their town. Trapped by the storm. Judged by the choices they make when survival becomes impossible. Poker Flat has decided to cleanse itself of every person its respectable citizens consider undesirable. Gambler John Oakhurst, the Duchess, Mother Shipton, and the drunken Uncle Billy...

Welcome to Coffinsview, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Cars with a taste for women and a hatred for men, love triangles that drag their victims straight into a coffin, and things far worse than darkness emerging from the shadows. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once.

Short Stories for Seniors: 30 Inspiring and Interesting True Stories of Ordinary People in History Whose Inventions Made Everyday Life Better (Includes Surprising Trivia)

Shai es una falsificadora, una extranjera capaz de copiar y recrear cualquier objeto a la perfección utilizando una ingeniosa magia para reescribir su historia. Aunque está condenada a muerte por intentar robar el cetro del emperador, se le concede una oportunidad de salvarse.

There’s nowhere to hide… When a series of vicious attacks leaves the local running community in shock and fear, newly qualified detective Kay Hunter is thrust into the middle of a fraught investigation. Determined to make an impression on her first assignment with the murder team, and...