Ergebnis für "The Girlfriend" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Nick Antosca's The Girlfriend Game is a tumble through the looking glass into a vortex of violence and desire. The 12 stories in the newest collection by the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author are brutal, urgent and unforgettable. In "Predator Bait", a decoy in a sex-sting news show questions her job and the man who shares her bed. An undependable son watches his mother become a creature he hardly recognizes in "Amphibian". A young man plots the death of his girlfriend's killer in "Winter Was Hard".

After fleeing his hometown to avoid going to prison for defending his little sister, twenty-one year old Carter Reed lives a lonely life making subs for college kids. Yet when Allison stumbles into his shop while fleeing men in black, he helps her escape... and meets the girl of his dreams. Yet Allison isn’t just Carter’s perfect woman. She’s also a fugitive from another planet, and other aliens are hunting her. Despite the danger, Carter can’t bear to let her run alone, and soon learns Allison is as eager to be with him as he is to be with her. He is, in her words, her ideal partner.

Mayor Of Mythos, Dungeon Realms, Isekai Warden, Conquering New Earth, Spartan Justice, Colony Builders, Reincarnation Trials, Jespa: The Space Trader, Dean Hawthorne, And My Girlfriend Is A Sorceress From Another World. These great books in one omnibus offering! If you like high fantasy, science fiction, action, adventure, and great storytelling, give this bundle a try!

Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real...

Dive into this feel-good, steamy romcom series, and meet three gorgeous heroes and the feisty women who bring them to their knees. Included in this flirty and fun boxset is three complete full-length stand-alone novels for one great price.

A collection of Christmas stories from award-winning Australian authors about the country practices that lie at the heart of small towns. The Christmas Cake War by Stella Quinn Physiotherapist Jodie is in Clarence to help her great-aunt Carol move into an aged care home. But Jodie didn't count...

You're off the edge of the map, elf. Here there be monsters. A mysterious ancient dragon city discovered, a pirate crew on the edge of greatness, and a lone man caught in the middle of two worlds. Jon, Lilly and the crew must bring together every drop of power, skill and cunning to strike back at the Illuminous Empire. But, all is not elven rum and sea lilies.

A collection of short stories by Vinayak Sharma.

“Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.” —Lena Dunham Single, Carefree, Mellow is that rare and wonderful thing...

Girlfriend Apocalypse I: Following a breakup, a couple unexpectedly meet, and both fury and sparks fly. Girlfriend Apocalypse II: An onslaught of supernatural events assails a man who quickly realizes both the source and the two competing choices he faces.

From Maeve Binchy’s earliest writings to the most recent, her work is filled with wisdom and common sense and also a sharp, often witty voice that is insightful and reaches out to her readers around the world and of all ages. Whether it is one of her best-selling novels or a short story, Maeve...

'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will be after this' TELEGRAPH 'A gorgeous festive tale' DAILY MAIL 'The ideal read to get you in the festive spirit' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A novel that's sure to warm the heart of any Scrooge' RADIO TIMES 'Tender and moving, Gifts is infused with...

In the confession, What Are Girlfriends For?, it's Layla Mill's birthday, but her boyfriend Jonathan Carr seems to have forgotten. But when her best friend/co-worker Shauna Summer offers to take her out to celebrate, it's a night Layla will remember for the rest of her life.

Joseph Stanton wants a companion. He finds a woman with similar interests to his, and things are going well. Then her adult daughters start showing up, and things get so much better.

Murph lives on an ocean liner which has been set down in the corn fields of Kansas. He works as a security op and plays dangerous games in a virtual reality called Way Out. But Murph is lonely and wants to meet his online lover, Cat, in person. But who is Cat, exactly, and what secret is she keeping from Murph?

Why can't he keep his mind off of him? Sure, Dane is a blond Adonis, charming as all get-out with a deep Southern drawl that makes Kevin want to mount him here and now. Sure, they have a connection that is undeniable, but there's also one little problem. Dane is his best friend, Cecily's boyfriend and even if Kevin's gaydar is accurate, and Dane does feel the same way that he does, Kevin just can't go there. Or can he?

"My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up" follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In "Other Desires", a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator's involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. "Tears" explores the disturbing complexities of an S&M Internet hook-up.