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Good Morning victorious
For five years I longed for peace. When we finally defeated the aliens, the general greeted us: "Good morning, victorious", and I believed everything would return to as before the ...
Stjärnturisten
Året är 2350 och genom Virgos Rymdresor kan jordborna för en präktig summa köpa sig en semester till planeten Prima Chara. En interstellär rymdfärd är en omständig historia - och d ...
Sorgens sjö
På Sorgens sjö går ingen säker, men det vet inte Petra Bravo när hon ger sig ut på vattnet tillsammans med Aerwinwath. Då dyker plötsligt sjungande näckrosor upp, vars klagosång gö ...
Askungens sommarsko
En strypmördare har mördat sex kvinnor på slumpmässiga platser. Under samma sommar, vid det hiskeligt branta Galgberget, har tre män fallit ner mot stupet och sin ofrånkomliga död. ...
Mysteriet med fotografiet
När 29-åriga Evita Klanglind kör ombord på färjan som ska ta henne till Sassnitz, gör hon det med viss ambivalens. Göran hade nyligen lämnat henne för en annan kvinna och hennes mo ...
A Service of Love
Love, art, ambitions and sacrifices. O. Henry’s "A Service of Love" tells the story of the artist Joe and the pianist Delia who fall in love with each other. They marry and althoug ...
The Sphinx Without a Secret
'Please, speak softly, we might be overheard,'Two college friends run into each other in Paris and one tells the other of a mysterious woman he’s been seeing. She sets appointments ...
Tales of the Alhambra
The famous Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, served as the major influence for this collection of essays and sketches by Washington Irving. Blending history, myth, and natural des ...
The Hound
There are graves that should have never been opened... The narrator and his friend learn this only after they have robbed several graves and started an exhibition on the artifacts ...
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
More than 10 000 years ago something terrible happened in the land of Mnar. Shepherd people built a new city called Sarnath. But the land they took to themselves was not uninhabite ...
Tom Tiddler's Ground
"The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree."In Tom Tiddlers Ground – the name of an ancient ...
The Mudfog Papers
"The total number of legs belonging to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool ...
Somebody's Luggage
"When I began to settle down in this right-principled and well-conducted House, I noticed, under the bed in No. 24 B (which it is up an angle off the staircase, and usually put off ...
Reprinted Pieces
"Once upon a time, and of course it was in the Golden Age, and I hope you may know when that was, for I am sure I don't, though I have tried hard to find out, there lived in a rich ...
George Silverman's Explanation
"Mother had the gripe and clutch of poverty upon her face, upon her figure, and not least of all upon her voice."After a traumatic childhood spent locked in a cellar, the orphaned ...
Three Deaths
"She would not hear a word. She has made her plans for living abroad, as if she were well. But if I should tell her what her real condition is, it would kill her.'A sick noblewoman ...
Walk In the Light While There Is Light
A group of rich Russians gather one night for hospitality and conversation, all admitting that they aren’t happy and aren’t optimistic that their children will ever find happiness ...
Alyosha the Pot
'He felt for the first time in his life that he—not his services, but he himself—was necessary to another human being.'At 19, Alyosha’s father sends him off to work as a servant fo ...
Aesop’s Fables
The sly fox, the greedy wolf and the diligent ant are among the most iconic and loved characters from Aesop’s fables. Who doesn’t love discovering knowledge in the ancient tales? I ...
Animal Stories
Do you want to find out what happens with a frog when it gets kissed by a beautiful princess? Or how could a young girl drive away a perky rabbit which was eating all the cabbage t ...
Behold Faith and Other Stories
In sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic, even violent contexts, the characters in these stories struggle to fathom the complexities and circumstances of their lives. Here are or ...
Bluebeard's Goat and Other Stories
H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with ...
Dominant Traits
Enslaved by their own fears, the characters in this riveting collection are straining for redemption. Their choices reflect the well-worn patterns we carve for ourselves through ou ...
Inheritances
William Black's debut short story collection looks closely at lives lived in the heart of coal country-now fracking country-in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Two miners battered by a c ...
Night Sounds and Other Stories
A woman recalls the freedom and power of childhood games; a surprise anniversary party goes awry when the husband is hospitalized and the fault lines and strengths of a family are ...