Ergebnis für "experimenter" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Marie steht vor dem großen Spiegel des Schlafzimmers und lässt ihre Augen an ihrem Ebenbild heruntergleiten. Einer plötzlichen Eingebung folgend, stopft sie alle Dessous zurück in die Schublade. Nackt streift sie das rückenfreie Kleid über. Es klingelt. Ein letzter Blick — perfekt. Sie drückt den Knopf der Freisprechanlage und hört seine Stimme. Wenig später klopft er leise an ihre Tür. Sie öffnet. Vor ihr steht Christian - ihr Experiment.

On a winter's night, as the old year slips silently into the new, shadows stir in forgotten corners, and the past refuses to rest. In The Experiment, M. R. James once again proves himself a master of quiet horror—where the chill creeps not from the cold, but from something far older, and far less forgiving. Subtle, strange, and unsettling, this is a tale that whispers its secrets, if you dare to listen. Perfect for a solitary listen by candlelight, just as midnight strikes.

In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor facing mounting personal crises puts her energies into TikTok, but her newfound viral fame could wreck her already unstable life. In “Patriot’s Day,” a man trying to leave his marriage for the woman he loves finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence. In other stories, an array of loners and artists—a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a queer beer brewer, a boy with wings—struggle for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Join mad scientist Richard Saxon on an investigation into the darkest corners of reality…. A sinister experiment aims to learn what exists beyond the veil of death. A hidden base on the dark side of the moon is humanity’s last line of defense against an unknown enemy. A house holds a dark room where the walls cry. Why doesn’t the world remember our only manned mission to Mars? But, most importantly: if you are reading this, you need to wake up.

This audiobook invites listeners into the bleak yet vibrant world inhabited by a young man--a homeless drifter navigating the harsh realities of urban life. Through vivid imagery and poignant narrative, Crane captures a raw day in the life of this young bum, exploring themes of despair and fleeting hope against the backdrop of a bustling city struggling with its own complexities.

రచయిత్రులు అందరిలోనూ ఓల్గా కి ఒక ప్రత్యేకమైన స్థానం తప్పక ఉంటుంది. తనకంటూ ఒక శైలిని ఏర్పరుచుకొని స్త్రీ వాదాన్ని బలంగా వినిపించిన రచయిత్రులలో వోల్గా ఎప్పుడూ ముందు వరుసలోనే ఉంటారు. ఆవిడ కథలు అన్నీ స్త్రీల చుట్టూ, వారి ఆలోచనల చుట్టూ నే తిరుగుతాయి. రాజకీయ కథలు అనే పేరు మీద ఆవిడ స్త్రీల శరీరాల చుట్టూ, స్త్రీలకు తోటి స్త్రీలతో, సమాజంతో, తమ పురుషులతో వుండే సంబంధాల చుట్టూ కథలను రాయగా, ఈ "ప్రయోగం" ఆ కథలకు సంబంధించిన రెండో సంకలనం. ఇందులో కూడా ఆవిడ సహజ సిద్ధమైన శైలి లో స్త్రీల శరీరం చుట్టూ కథలు అల్లి కొన్ని నిజాలని కళ్ళకి కట్టినట్టు చూపించే ప్రయత్నం చేశారు.

A desperate scientist's radical attempt to cure his dying daughter unleashes an ancient, predatory potential within humanity, forcing him to confront a shadowy conspiracy and the monstrous consequences of playing God before his creation reshapes the world. Dr. Marcel Johnston, a brilliant scientist driven by the imminent loss of his terminally ill daughter, Calista, stakes everything on Project Fledge—a revolutionary serum designed to unlock humanity's ultimate potential and conquer disease.

"Doctor Ox's Experiment" is a short story by Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a new gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town: Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, the offer is gladly accepted. The hidden interest of Dr. Ox is however not lighting, but large scale experiment on effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans.

The quiet community of Quiquendone can't be found on any map. There is no crime, no raised voices, no conflict of any kind. And when the enigmatic Dr. Ox ventures into the town and proposes to light the town with a mysterious gas at his own expense, the town elders applaud the proposal. But soon it becomes evident that the secret gas feeds on a different sort of combustion.

An Experiment in Luxury is the book end of all this as a young man visits his rich friend and his millionaire family. It is a conventional scene where the young man's friend, son of the household, encourages him to speak only conventionally to his mother or he will get on her bad side. We see her preoccupied with her worries and the husband/millionaire taking his mind off of it all by playing with a kitten.

"An Experiment in Misery" in a story similar to "The Men in the Storm" except that it focuses on one character, and a new fellow traveler called the Assassin, who struggle for warmth and a place for the night. The main character stops first at a saloon for free soup with a beer, where he meets the Assassin. The Assassin accosts the man seeking a few cents for a room.

This is the story about a 35-year-old man that was initially abducted in Fairbanks, Alaska only to wind up in the middle of a cornfield. After removing an implant from his body, he attempted to relocate to a small town in northern Michigan known as Alpena to escape further interaction with aliens. Unfortunately once the aliens choose someone it is more than difficult to start over somewhere new.

Dr. Heidegger invites four elderly friends to his macabre study. He claims to his friends to have found liquid from the fountain of youth! The friends are skeptical, but choose to drink the liquid anyway.

Sterling is a gay, Black medical school student from Chicago's Northside neighborhood. Sterling has childhood trauma related to white women when his mother loses her company to Mrs. Beck. He is then later traumatized again at a college party being hosted by the Kappa, Kappa, Kappa sorority Inc. Sterling develops an A.I. program that puts these girls through a rigorous test. Sterling then tests a heinous social experiment, that will push him and his victims to the brink of destruction.

In this short story collection, nice girls attempt to kill their husbands with cake, and fantasize about their funerals; life models are commanded to stay still, no matter the circumstance; dommes recruit and corrupt their young apprentices. Women’s bodies are canvasses on which they display and demonstrate their dissatisfaction.