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  The Jungle Anthology

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  This collection of 21 short stories was gathered from all of my present works and some that were never published before, and in fact just recently completed. 
  There are some science fiction stories in there, some ironic, others mysterious and yet others just plain silly. I'll let you decide which is which. 
  I hope that you find it a quick and enjoyable read. Thank You for choosing this book to read. 
  Paul A.Hernandez 
  2024

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  The Time Machine

  H. G. Wells

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  H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as "The Time Traveller" tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon.

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  The Temptation of Haringay

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer who is best remembered for his science fiction novels."The Temptation of Haringay" is the strange tale of an unsuccessful artist who is unexpectedly approached with an offer by the devil - his soul in return for the thing he most yearns for...

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  Samuel Johnson Is Indignant -...

  Lydia Davis

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  “Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose—part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis.” —Elle 
   
  From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she’s set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction.” 
   
  “The 56 stories . . . showcase the wordplay and distillation of meaning that have become her stylistic hallmarks, offering up crisp twists on familiar themes. . . . Eclectic and astute, Davis continues to find new ways to tell us the things we need to know.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Outsiders, self-doubt, and alienation: all form the bedrock upon which Davis sets up an off-kilter, edgy universe distinctly her own.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “Davis should be counted among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction.” —San Francisco Chronicle 
   
  “Davis deploys her gift for verbal bemusement, annoyance, and high anxiety . . . [and] converts her characters’ complex ruminations into narratives full of insight and pleasure.” —The Village Voice 
   
  “If you’re smart, chances are good you’ll read the stories in Lydia Davis’s Samuel Johnson is Indignant.” —Vanity Fair 
   
  “Precise and quietly unsettling.” —Detroit Free Press 
   
  “Introspective and subversive, ironic and playful, obsessive and funny.” —Salon

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  The Yellow Sign

  Robert W. Chambers

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  “Have you seen the Yellow Sign?”, mumbles a cadaverous hearse driver with a soft, squishy head. He’s been skulking about Scott’s painting studio, where he and Tessie have been developing a tangled relationship between artist and model. But as this ever-present watchman resembling a coffin worm begins to distract Scott, his portrait of Tessie takes on a death-like pallor. How can they forever rid themselves of this hearse stalker? And what precisely does he mean by a “Yellow Sign”?  
   
  Developing themes as old as time, Chambers takes his lovers and twists their story into a chilling danse macabre. 

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  Dubliners

  James Joyce

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  Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

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