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  You Are Not A Stranger Here -...

  Adam Haslett

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  In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

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  Short Trips Volume 01

  Multiple Authors

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  Eight fantastic new adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions, featuring stories from many of Doctor Who’s most popular authors... and read by your favourite Big Finish actors!

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  The Short Stories of Henry W...

  Henry W. Nevinson

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  Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. 
  Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in 1884, Herder & His times, a study on Johnann Gottfried Herder. 
  In 1897 he became the Daily Chronicle's reporter for the Greco-Turkish War. He was also noted for his reporting on the Second Boer War. 
  During the 1880s Nevinson had attached his politics to Socialism and by 1889 had joined the Social Democratic Federation. 
  In 1904, he was hired by Harper's Monthly Magazine to report on a supposed trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of São Tomé. He produced evidence of people being trafficked to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns. Once there he wrote that Portuguese officials "freed" them and continued the charade by declaring they were now voluntary workers who agreed to go to São Tomé for five years. Despite severe ill health he continued to follow the slaves to São Tomé. He found plantation conditions so appalling that one in five workers died each year. His account was serialised from August 1905 and then published as ‘A Modern Slavery’ in 1906. 
  He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. 
  In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I, as a war correspondent, was wounded during the infamous Gallipoli campaign. 
  E. M. Forster described Nevinson's book, ‘More Changes, More Chances’ in 1925 as "exciting", and that "He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party-generosity, recklessness, a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles". 
  A committed Socialist Nevinson could see, during the 20s and 30s, the foundations of a titanic struggle began to gather its forces. He would later state "I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia". 
  Nevinson married Margaret Wynne Jones and, after her death in 1933, he married his long-time lover, and fellow suffragist, Evelyn Sharp. 
  Henry W. Nevinson died on November 9th, 1941. 
   
  01 - Henry W. Nevinson. A Short Story Volume - An Introduction 
  02 - St George of Rochester by Henry W. Nevinson 
  03 - The Aristocrat of Labour by Henry W. Nevinson

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  Arthur's Inspiration

  Gabriel Merithew

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  The 1st short story from Gabriel Merithew's 30-Day Short Story Challenge. 
  Arthur has writer's block. Once a great author, he now sits at his desk and daydreams for hours every day with no intention of trying to write. It's a cozy, yet unfulfilling life. But everything's about to change. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration...

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  After The Theater

  Anton Chekhov

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  After Nadya, a sixteen year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya’s thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love for her, she, more than anything, wants to believe that they do not love her. Trying to emulate the unrequited love from the play, she writes a letter to Gorny, like the heroine in the play, to create tension. But then she wonders if she should instead write to Guzdev, or perhaps both! 
    Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian writer and playwright, considered by many to be one of the best writers of short stories in the history of literature. Chekhov was also a successful physician, but writing was his true passion. He was quoted as saying "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress."

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  Shamrock Stint

  Shreyans Ranjalkar

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  A roller coaster ride of drama, adventure, mystery and fantasy, “Shamrock Stint” is a collection of fanciful fun. Written by child for young Adults, Shreyans Ranjalkar captures his readers and takes them on a delightful adventure through an assortment of stories and genres. “The Dire Night”, creeps out from the darkness upon an unsuspecting lad who seems forced, to succumb to the tyranny and enslavement of the devil. “The Curious Case” discovers the dead body of a male murdered at 24th Ace Street and spins a tangled web for Declan O Connor to untangle, as he searches for the murdered.Taking a 360 degree rotation “Shamrock Stint” includes “The Happy Days” which transports readers across the boundaries of time to the happy moments of childhood, family vacations and fun. “Friendship Matters” reconnects friends and awakens school memories allowing you to take a step in the shoes of Rohan and Josh and their attempt to break free from the clutches of ‘The Three Muscles Band’. Navigate through tales of murder, mystery, horror and the warmth of friendship as you’re taken to Shamrock for your very own stint of adventure. Let the excitement haunt, taunt, and grip you as you search to unlock the mysteries.

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