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A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.
At a meeting of the Tuesday Night Club, attorney Mr. Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter's death, Clode turned to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact her in the afterlife, and then decided to write a new will leaving Eurydice
...Doctor Haydock, the resident GP of St. Mary Mead, hopes to cheer up Miss Marple as she recovers from the flu with a little story. The tale revolves around the return of the prodigal son of Major Laxton, the devilishly handsome Harry Laxton. Harry, after leading a life of childish indiscretions and falling head over heels for the village tobacconist's daughter, has made good and returned to lay claim to his tumbling childhood home and introduce
...64) The Companion
Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems.
A murder-suicide in a small village mimics events that took place years before.
Miss Politt has been waiting and waiting outside Laburnum Cottage for Mrs. Spenlow, to no avail. She nervously acquires the help of her next-door neighbor, whose gumption and persistence reveal that Mrs. Spenlow is dead on the hearthrug. The whole of St. Mary Mead is convinced the murderer is Mr. Spenlow, who shows no emotion upon his wife's sudden death, but, with characteristic diligence, Miss Marple reveals that it is perhaps not that simple.
...66) The perfect host
The 5th of 13 volumes that collects all of Hugo and Nebula award-winner Theodore Sturgeon’s short fiction, with a foreword by Larry McCaffrey
Perhaps better known for classic SF novels...
67) Oddly enough
The bite of cold winter air. The darkness of the longest night. The warmth of a flickering candle flame...
These five holiday stories reach into our hearts, to the places where ghosts and memories live, where we open to new love, vanquish greed, and celebrate the renewal of the sun.
Leather daddies, bad Santas, Yule cookies, and the kindness of strangers...
Every single story in this collection comes
...69) Lost in REM
Definately a 'dream fantasy' gone wild.
This one novelette has gained me more kudos and notoriety than any other, being reprinted countless times. It has spawned many other stories and films; a pop group; and has been used in medical discussions when oneiromancy ever raises its head.
When it appeared over three decades ago, it seemed to break new ground. Fan mail poured in from as far away as Japan and Australia, and
...70) A Touch of Faery
Do you love magic?
Do you long for a world that is like ours, but...not quite?
Welcome to A Touch of Faery. Five tales about faery crows, stalking cats, strange encounters... and second chances.
Enter the glimmering spaces that exist around the edges of what we call real.
Ten stories that show why the freedom of truth is worth the price of loneliness.
This is the fifth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:
Love and Truth at Universe End
Where have all the aliens gone?
Calling Scam Likely
An auto warranty scam he was sure to never forget!
Prison of Dreams
A boy, a girl, and a starship gone mad.
Blight
...Ten brutally honest and politically incorrect stories for times such as these!
This is the second volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It contains:
The Paradox of Choice
If post-birth abortions are legal, when does life actually begin?
Payday
A near future sci-fi thriller about the perils of a universal basic income.
Utahraptors
...74) Starlove
A touching tale of interplanetary romance - lonely souls reaching out to find love in the stars while travelling through space.
A short story, first published in 1990 and enjoyed steadily through the three decades since.
Science Fiction, Adult reading - This short story was inspired by being spammed in my own email inbox, and although from different sources, they had obviously copied via a team working network. I have translated this into a naive lonely soul as he journeyed through space.
76) A Spark of Magic
Magic defies space and transcends time. These stories reach into the past, open up the present, and imagine the future.
Magicians, peep show dancers, lonely men, lost girls, and Death Herself walk through these five magical tales.
These stories evoke the longing of a broken heart, a whispered prayer, a candle lit, a heartfelt wish, and the sort of retribution sometimes only magic brings.
And we all know, that life without magic is a life
Eleven short stories and a poem that show us what comes after the end of all we know.
This is the fourth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:
The Manchurian Paradox
We have met our timeline's enemy and he is us.
A Fatal Rebirth
Nothing in this world should live forever—not even civilization itself.
The Final Turning
This
78) A Time for Magic
All stories show us who we can be. And belief in magic? That's up to us.
Time. Hope. Magic. Loss.
These stories, though touched with magic, reflect the human condition.
Stories all do, don't they? Or they should. Whether a story is light and bright, or swims in the murky depths, all stories hold up a mirror to who we are now.
These stories include dancing trolls, ancient serpents, fallen angels,
...79) A Hint of Faery
Do you love magic?
Do you long for a world that is like ours, but...not quite? Welcome to A Hint of Faery. Five tales about magical animals. Strange bargains. People that are not quite...human.Enter the glimmering spaces that exist around the edges of what we call real.
“As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,”...
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