Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy

Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy PDF Author: Short Story Press
Publisher: Short Story Press
ISBN: 1648913237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy by Mark Laughlin Do you know a super shy guy? Some guy who appears to have it all together, except for one thing – he can’t talk to women? That’s the problem, Jim, the protagonist of “Super Shy Guy” by Mark Laughlin has. He joins a local book club to try and come to meet people and come out of his shell a bit, and gets a serious crush on Nancy, a stunning brunette. What happens next? • Nancy likes Jim, but wants a man who isn’t quite so shy. • Jim confides in his work friend Debbie, a cute girl herself. • Jim tries, but fails, to impress Nancy. • Nancy gives up on Jim and a new guy enters the picture. • Nancy realizes that giving up on Jim was a mistake, but wait – he’s taken now! • Jim seems to be getting over Nancy by dating another girl. • It turns out that the super shy guy may not be so shy after all... The conclusion should satisfy any reader who’s ever thought two people might make a great couple, but can’t put into words just why. This is a story with heart, soul, and - of course -romance. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy

Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy PDF Author: Short Story Press
Publisher: Short Story Press
ISBN: 1648913237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
Short Story Press Presents Super Shy Guy by Mark Laughlin Do you know a super shy guy? Some guy who appears to have it all together, except for one thing – he can’t talk to women? That’s the problem, Jim, the protagonist of “Super Shy Guy” by Mark Laughlin has. He joins a local book club to try and come to meet people and come out of his shell a bit, and gets a serious crush on Nancy, a stunning brunette. What happens next? • Nancy likes Jim, but wants a man who isn’t quite so shy. • Jim confides in his work friend Debbie, a cute girl herself. • Jim tries, but fails, to impress Nancy. • Nancy gives up on Jim and a new guy enters the picture. • Nancy realizes that giving up on Jim was a mistake, but wait – he’s taken now! • Jim seems to be getting over Nancy by dating another girl. • It turns out that the super shy guy may not be so shy after all... The conclusion should satisfy any reader who’s ever thought two people might make a great couple, but can’t put into words just why. This is a story with heart, soul, and - of course -romance. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Short Story Press Presents Photo Shy

Short Story Press Presents Photo Shy PDF Author: Short Story Press
Publisher: Short Story Press
ISBN: 164891327X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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Short Story Press Presents Photo Shy by Sarah Zachary Michael is a professional photographer. He knows exactly how to take the best pictures and is desperate enough to accept any work when the rent comes due, which is slowly creeping up on him. When he’s offered a new job opportunity from a high-end client, the last thing he expects to be confronted with an abuse scandal in the midst of the cast. He meets an extremely attractive model, someone he soon recognizes from his teenage past. To make things even more complicated, on one end of the scandal is the man responsible for the model’s success, and the model herself is on the edge of disaster. Michael must decide whether to take action or not, before it’s too late, to save his job, or his love interest, and all with a single photo as proof. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Short Story Press Presents Sandy's Mended Heart

Short Story Press Presents Sandy's Mended Heart PDF Author: Short Story Press
Publisher: Short Story Press
ISBN: 164891361X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Short Story Press Presents Sandy's Mended Heart by Norah crowley This story follows Sandy, a 19-year-old woman, as she makes the difficult transition from living in an insular religious community to “outside” life in a college town. Sandy struggles with: • Living alone when she has always been surrounded by a close family; • Meeting different types of people when she has always been in a small community; • Making her way with new people who don’t think or act like those at home—she has to figure out how they think and what they actually mean by what they say and how they act; • Meeting men who live and work in environments – a college campus, a military base—that are the total opposites of the community she has known all her life; • Dealing with her need to find love, and hopefully a marriage, in a new world, without the guidelines of her strict community or the oversight of her family; • Falling in love with a man who is so totally different from her father, brothers, cousins and all the men she has known in her life, and in fact is a soldier, someone whom her pacifist religious community would find totally unacceptable; • Finding a church home and a place where she can live with her strong religious convictions even though she does not totally accept the limitations of her original church; • Coping with love and loss, putting lessons of forgiveness into practice, and picking up the pieces of a broken heart without becoming bitter. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Short Story Press Presents Insatiable Lovers Desire

Short Story Press Presents Insatiable Lovers Desire PDF Author: Short Story Press
Publisher: Short Story Press
ISBN: 1648913733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Short Story Press Presents Insatiable Lovers Desire by Hailey R. Storms Who was that in the water she wondered as she peered at him throw the over grown foliage? He looked amazing. She could see that even his muscles had muscles. He had long brown hair a golden brown tan and every move that he made was fluid this man was in one word gorgeous. As she kept watching him he turned around and let the waterfall run over his body. God what she would give to be a bead of water on his body to feel his strength and touch on her body. Sonja’s dreams are so real they seem to be reality. But Sonja, a hard working, single receptionist at a clinic in New Orleans, never had time to go out and do anything unexpected until her friend Cassie takes her out for breakfast to a café before work on her birthday. There she meets Eric, a tall, handsome waiter; she notices he looks vaguely familiar but from where? Sonja soon finds the handsome man from her dream is real! Sonja finds out that the guy has ESP and can talk to her with his mind when they are in the hospital room with his Nanna, Mrs. B. • Insatiable Lovers Desires is a story of how a young woman learns to trust her most inner desires and finds out even her dreams can come true. • This story shows how the caring for an older woman in a hospital bed can turn even the most shy in to the most outgoing and willing individual. • It will truly make you think about your most inner desires for sure. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

Dear Committee Members

Dear Committee Members PDF Author: Julie Schumacher
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345807332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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“Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms. Don’t miss Julie Schumacher's new novel, The English Experience, coming soon.

Out There

Out There PDF Author: Kate Folk
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593231465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.”—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.

No Good Very Bad Asian

No Good Very Bad Asian PDF Author: Cheuk Leland
Publisher: C&r Press
ISBN: 9781936196999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
Witty and wise, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN is a heartwarming and heartbreaking novel about daring to dream in America, a story that is both timely and timeless.

A Little Life

A Little Life PDF Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Big Red Tequila

Big Red Tequila PDF Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0804151938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Everything in Texas is bigger . . . even murder. Meet Tres Navarre—tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, and unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson “Tres” Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father’s murder behind him. Now he’s back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians’ games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It’s obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet’s nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, is missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father’s murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo. “Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own.”—Chicago Tribune Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

These Precious Days

These Precious Days PDF Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063092808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.