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Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here. Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to...

Where can you find all of the scents, sounds, and joys of Christmas? Where do youth come of age, old women bring joy, and worldly angels watch over us? Where do the things that matter take precedence over everyday concerns? Within the carefully crafted stories gathered for your enjoyment in Annie...

The 10 Works to read in this life Vol:1, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected...

Evie has lived her entire life under her abusive father’s thumb. He controls everything. Where she goes to college, who she sees, what she does. But when she meets Van—a punk who shows her how different life could be—she realizes how much she’s been missing.Van offers her excitement, protection,...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental...

Fairies, fair folk, imps, trolls, and pixies—they haunt our myths from Ireland to Iceland and everywhere else. Join in the fairy fun, or fairy fear, as good, bad, and mischievous they show themselves. Dare you take the trip to Fairyland? No one who returns is ever quite the same. Table of...

Christmas is fast approaching in Captain’s Point, and handsome Liam O’Brien, Head Cook at Chester’s crab shack, finds it hard to get into the spirit, as memories of the girl who was spirited away from him in the dead of night twelve years before fill his mind. But then, a newcomer to...

A dead cellphone calls with a job offer and a promise of dragons.Imagine if Terry Pratchett sat down with Kathy Bates to make up fractured fairy tales for Edward Everett Horton to read aloud: you'd get MAVEN FAIRY GODMOTHER: THROUGH THE VEIL.Giving up what's left of her self-esteem...

A Ten-piece Bucket of Southern Fried Flash Fiction Walking off Heaven's Shore: A girl is washed in the flood of knowledge of good and evil Intervention: Mothers and daughters - expectations and communication with new awareness Turning Point: A cup of coffee and a decision for a Friday morning Kitchen...

Fairy Godmother Maven Morrigan has her own way of making the happily ever after come true. These stories take on The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin and Beauty and the Beast. * Bubba and the Beast: Trolls need love too, but can Maven get back from Mundane in time to grant Grizelda's wish? * Mavenstiltskin:...

Brewster "Silicon" jones is the computer geek ne'er-do-well your mother warned you about. Good hearted but lazy, Jones would rather lie than eat, and he manages to slide through his life and the four dimensions like grass through a goose. A spin off from the Maven Fairy Godmother universe,...

Five flash fiction stories are told from the edge of the realm of magic--enchanted moments, bitter realizations, answering the call, and returning with the elixir. Even in the mundane world, magic is only a moment away from manifestation, as each of these characters learns, sometimes to their sorrow. 

Sizzling sexy short stories Sex in the tropical palm house transports her to an erotic paradise …  Their new sex toy lets her dominate her husband in all the best ways … When the cinema lights go down, that’s when the naughty fun begins … These are just some of...

     To Cheryl Watkins, daytime cashier at Chester's Crab Shack, decorating the restaurant's Christmas tree is the first step in a steady progression of expected and treasured givens that all add to the comfort of a good old-fashioned Christmas. Wrapping gifts, singing carols,...