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The most interesting and important event for the boys of the old, already semi-derelict school of the small town was going to the movies and the following discussion of the new film. But most had rarely the opportunity to go to the cinema and everyone who was lucky to see a new film retold for days again and again the contents until all the others knew the whole movie by heart without seeing it themselves. Especially the younger pupils lacked the money, but even the older ones had often not enough to by a ticket. Because for a ticket one had to pay twenty kopeks, otherwise one could not enter the cinema....
The book keeper of the hospital of a small provincial town came one day home very tired. He had not the least desire to have dinner and so he decided to lay down at once and to sleep. In recent years it often happened, that he, after coming home in the evening, had dinner and immediately went to bed without a word to his already grown up children or his wife. She became more and more grumpy in view of his seclusion. He only wanted to sleep, to sleep soundly till daybreak of the next and probably again undesirably day which he always impatiently anticipated, only to immerse again in his coma. For any reason he remembered this evening his childhood in a state between vigil and slumber....
An intriguing short story about solving the mystery of the cosmos and the metaphorical identity of Kafka's and Shakespeare's mistress.
Sylvia Mandelstam boasts what a wonderful time she had at the international literary symposium in Moscow. Truth be told, the trip was an unmitigated fiasco not unlike her marriage and personal life. She can lie shamelessly and dissemble to everyone - even Danny O'Rourke, the unassuming mason who arrives one summery day to repair her damaged brick wall. But not indefinitely....
Jerome Spellman, the simple schizophrenic in Grace’s eleventh grade class, acts like an extra in a B-rated horror flick - Night of the Living Dead. Grace prays for a miracle, while Dr. Rosen, the school psychologist counsels, “Think positive but plan for the worse.”...
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for....
Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain. So what is the well-heeled doctor doing with Ruby, a high school dropout and waitress at the local greasy spoon, and what are his options visa vie the pallid, five year old boy whose damaged heart beats in three-four time?...
The story is about people just trying to get along and make the best of what happening most of which they cannot control. It is not in a galaxy for far away or long long ago, it is in the next bit of our galaxy about five strings of stars to the left. Here life spins out all be it on a larger playing field. Here too people want a quiet life and a good job but sometime fate has other plans. Thus it for a data manager called John Harris....
Chapter 5 - - THE JUMP Harris stood waiting in the small switch room, waiting for what he did not know. Raftos was standing next to Harris, Mick was sitting on the floor in the corner watching the large panel on the main part of the wall. A small tinny sounding intercom speaker suddenly came to life and a voice came over cool and quite calm. " Command base control to Light Star, all personnel clear of the ground hanger, you may proceed to launch at your own time." Raftos leaned forward and pushed a switch near the intercom. " Light Star to base control." said Raftos. " All systems are steady, we are ready to make jump." Raftos let go of the switch. The speaker sounded for one last time. " Base control, good luck."...
Chapter 4 - - LIGHT STAR The shuttle circled the first moon of Morstan and headed toward Petra the furthest and smallest of the Morstan moons. As the dark side crescent of the third moon looped beneath the nose of the shuttle, the small barren moon of Petra appeared in view. It was a dark and uninviting place with no life except the very secret base where the Light Star project laboratories and assembly hangers were. The shuttle lurched as it gave a short burn to reach the high outer orbit of the moon. The planet below shrank rapidly smaller as the darkness of space enveloped the shuttle....
This edition includes the entire text of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Also included are a Foreword by author/actor Jon Koons; an Afterword by actor Danielle Manente; and information and photos about THE MAKING OF THE AUDIOBOOK....
Misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance – Jason Flanagan needs to make restitution for a crime committed fifteen years earlier. Problem is, the moral indiscretion isn’t punishable in any court of law....
Within the Comedy Version of "Anarchemy", the Corporate Governance Committee has finally met it's match; -an her name is Eve... -The Late-Night Corporate Comedy Show Host for Telco; -an disenfranchised affiant of the C.G.C. as their aging-Board explores an tragic experience with A.I. Administration......
Speed-Bloggers had already listed their life’s work within the Crypto-Pixel crayon of the Gray-Web internet; -the brand of ‘Gray-Leather Java’ In-Memorium gesture more-often reserved for use by the administrators of Stasi-maintained A.I.-Clouds within an private Nano-Net, but the dearth of mis-spellings was only de-valued by an insistent gapping-issue linked to the inefficiency of squirrel-graded encryptions, Route-Print Roulette issues and the core inefficiency-model of the digital code itself, less than Fifteen-minutes into the event....
Chapter One “Eve Treif Animus” Chapter Two “Zombium” Chapter Three “The Motherland” Chapter Four “Memburu” Chapter Five “Cyborg Logic-Control”...
An eclectic collection of 50 flash fictions written between 2010-15. An additional 103 flash fictions are published in a companion volume, An Anthology of Hardly 20/20 Flash! Fiction. Between these two volumes are all the pieces published in the authors' now out-of-print Flash! Fiction, Flash! Fiction 2, Flash! Fiction 3, Flash! Fiction 4, and The Brain in the Vat Stories and More as well as 24 flash fictions never anthologized....
An eclectic collection of 103 flash fictions written between 2007-17. An additional 50 recently-recovered flash fictions written between 2010-15 are published in a companion volume, Missing Stories: An Anthology of Hardly 20/20 Flash! Fiction. Between these two volumes are all the pieces published in the authors' now out-of-print Flash! Fiction, Flash! Fiction 2, Flash! Fiction 3, Flash! Fiction 4, and The Brain in the Vat Stories and More as well as 24 flash fictions never anthologized....
No one knows me is a poem by Rakesh Krushna Joshi. It is one of the first poem of Rakesh Krushna Joshi. The Poem is dedicated to Sushant Singh Rajput and his soul. It is first publish on July 25 2020 in the form of video. Its has total 11 stanzas. The poem is full of sadness....
Sushant Singh Rajput was the legendary actor in the bollywood.
Complete version of two plays set in 17-century Europe.
Enter Cardinal Richelieu and Michel de l'Hospital Michel. Appointed in the royal council of ministers after the solicitation of the lord of Vieuville! Richelieu. Appointed as marshal of France after murdering! Michel. Concino's murder was ordered by the king and therefore no murder. Richelieu. True. Michel. To thank the chief minister, you intrigued against him so that he no longer resides in the court, replaced, I hear, by you. Richelieu. His dismissal was ordered by the king and therefore just. Michel. True. Richelieu. Many were glad to hoot him from court with the noise of pans for excessive extortion. Enter King Louis Louis. Cardinal, we speak today of Spain's concerns and ours. Michel. For this no doubt his majesty wishes to speak alone with my lord cardinal. Exit Michel Louis. One word whispered in your ear: Valtellina. Richelieu. Spain wants the town with all of Lombardy, But, if I live awhile, will not get it. Louis. How can we prevent them? Richelieu. By supporting the Swiss. Louis. The Swiss canton of Grisons is Protestant. Richelieu. True. Louis. You will support the Protestant S...
King Louis XIII, acts 1 to 5 The silver lady, acts 1 to 5
In this novelette an ex WWII POW, a B-17 gunner, returns home only to find that his wife has left him taking his child he has never seen. He finds it necessary to return to Germany in order to clear his conscience and cure a severe depression caused by an incident that occurred while at the POW camp Stalag VII-A Moosburg....
Victor Cantor stood on the deck of the troop ship as it passed the Statue of Liberty and slowly eased its way to the dock in lower Manhattan. There were thousands of people visible on shore and he was watching for a glimpse of his family. He had never seen his daughter Jane, now three years old. He had a picture in his wallet but it was over a year old. His wife, Ellie hadn’t written in several months, or more likely her letters had been lost by his German captors or The Red Cross. Victor was deep in thought. He had spent the last several months in a prison camp at Stalag VII-A in Moosburg. He had been a gunner aboard a B17 Flying Fortress for a year prior to being shot down. He was very good at what he had done while occupying the tail gunning position on the aircraft and during his 26 missions had downed 5 German fighter planes....
1. Home Coming 2 New York 3 Europe Again 4 Dachau 5 Intrigue 6 The Interview 7 Marlene 8 Victor Gets a Letter 9 New York Again
Renegade Robot: It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobot exterminator who happens to get caught in the crossfire. Unwritten Rules of Impossible Things What if someone - or something - stole one of your days? Just one, and you didn't know why, or what they had done with your life in that time? Young Philip Galvez and his friend Marcus Holmes found out for themselves when they decided to discover why there was a giant stuffed moose in a house down the road. Jimmyland The settlers were dispatched to a distant planet to build a colony to house the future of mankind. They had everything they needed, except a backup plan in case things went horribly wrong, and there was no way home....
Renegade Robot Unwritten Rules of Impossible Things Jimmyland
When a city commissioned a famous artist to create a masterpiece for their newly refurbished downtown, they only forgot one thing: to tell him when to stop. Now his greatest work is threatening to take over everywhere. It's a race against time and space and dimensions nobody even knew were there!...
Three stories of a lonely youth. Jimmy Kruzel's bad luck is that his worst enemies are always his best friends, or is it the other way around, and that sometimes his darkest hours seem to come right after the dawn. In tales more bitter than sweet, Jimmy finds that you can attract more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, but really, who wants to attract flies anyway?...