The Carcass & Other Stories

The Carcass & Other Stories
Author: Dave Sims
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1678023337

I'm pleased to have been asked to write the forward to this collection of splendid and heretofore mostly unseen short stories, all of which were written from roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s by my longstanding friend and constant teacher Dave Sims. Mostly the stories transpire in what might reasonably be called working-class settings. They're inhabited by a range of peculiar characters, many of them troubled and distressed, some of them near death, all of them ingenuously sprung from Sims' singularly rich and fertile imagination. These are stories that deserve to be read, pondered and, of course, enjoyed. While recently re-reading them, I was struck, as happened often when I first encountered them years ago, by how strange and real and fully alive the characters seemed. I marveled once again at the details and contours of the stories themselves, their beautiful and inventive architecture, the snap and rhythm of the sentences and the keen, restless intelligence from whence they sprang.

The Taker, and Other Stories

The Taker, and Other Stories
Author: Rubem Fonseca
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193482402X

The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.

THE MOONSHINER AND OTHER STORIES

THE MOONSHINER AND OTHER STORIES
Author: George G. Suggs, Jr.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453595325

These thirteen stories reflect different dimensions of the human spirit. Hugh in “The Moonshiner,” Maggie in “The Fight,” and George in “The Drunkard” show remarkable courage when facing physical danger. Myra Lu in “Dyin’ on Time” and John in “The Lost Summer” reveal admirable endurance when facing adversity. In “Talking to the Dead” and “The Strange Requests,” the Reverends Calahan and Hester struggle against superstition and disbelief. Zack in “The Chicken Thieves” discovers that crime doesn’t pay. And characters in “Grandma Excie’s Exit,” “Summer Porch Talk,” “The Prayers” and other stories confront life’s complexities of sadness, joy, humor, pain and death. The setting for these stories: southeastern North Carolina. The time: the depression decade of the thirties.

Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories

Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories
Author: Louis Becke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9361154206

Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories is a collection of stories written by Louise Becky in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The Australian author was well known for his work that often describes life in the South Pacific region. All the stories Described in the book typically revolve around themes of life adventure journey and interaction between indigenous people and European sailors. He also exemplifies the moral connections with the people of the Pacific island. The book Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories, generally centres on the experience of a Boatsteerer a crew member whose duty is to steer a whaleboat. His writing style and narratives are often characterized by vast descriptions of the beautiful natural environment and challenges faced by individuals in navigating the unpredictable and control clashes inevitable in circumstance life of the South Pacific. However, the book provides readers with a gist of the culture and maritime complexities faced in the region during the time in which he wrote this particular book.

Roman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories

Roman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories
Author: Louis Becke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752318341

Reproduction of the original: Roman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories by Louis Becke

The Secret Sharer and Other Stories

The Secret Sharer and Other Stories
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486110656

Three of Conrad’s most powerful stories of the sea — "Youth: A Narrative" (1898), "Typhoon" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1910) — each probing deeply, suspensefully into the mysteries of human character.

Rídan the Devil and Other Stories

Rídan the Devil and Other Stories
Author: Louis Becke
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

So back he went to Mulifanua. The boat voyage from Apia down the coast inside the reef is not a long one, but the Samoan crew were frightened to have such a man free; so they tied him hand and foot and then lashed him down tightly under the midship thwart with strips of green fau bark. Not that they did so with unnecessary cruelty, but ex-Lieutenant Schwartzkoff, the foreman, was looking on, and then, besides that, this big-boned, light-skinned man was a foreigner, and a Samoan hates a foreigner of his own colour if he is poor and friendless. And then he was an aitu a devil, and could speak neither Samoan, nor Fijian, nor Tokelau, nor yet any English or German....FROM THE BOOKS.

The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories

The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories
Author: Cameron Raynes
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743051204

In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism. A welfare worker is asked to spy on a colleague. And in the award-winning title story, a taxi driver accepts a fare he knows he shouldn't: They headed east, the nude hills of the Geraldton plains, stripped of their trees a century before, leaning into them on both sides as the car climbed into the marginal country. Behind him, Luke heard the gurgle of fluid sluicing out of a bladder and into a cup, smelt the sweet stink of cheap wine. It occurred to him that it was not too late to turn back.

Maggie: a Girl and Nine Other Stories

Maggie: a Girl and Nine Other Stories
Author: Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr.
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491798424

The characters in these short stories all have a connection with the fictional town of Menninger, ND, created in the novel The Song Is Ended (2011). Facing adversity, moral conflicts, or just the challenges of living, the characters must find their way in an imperfect world.

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1995-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141909986

The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest.