story collection

This book is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora. It is a book centered on one extended family - the Bele?ns - across multiple generations. It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa - and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too. It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical - and its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity.

A family curse that turns spoken prophecy into truth. A world where your soulmate?s feelings appear as words on your skin. A boy who has to decide whether or not to attend his brother?s wedding even though their parents have forbidden it. A girl who encounters the boy she loved and lost and realizes where her heart truly lies. These genre-bending stories focus on the magic (and tension) of the biggest family gathering. Both award-winning and debut authors share stories of broken hearts, rekindled flames, unlikely romances, and one particular auntie who loves to meddle. From jewel-toned kurtas, music and dancing, to the aromas of cardamom and sugar, one thing is for certain: It?s going to be an incredible season.

Secure. Contain. Protect. The SCP Foundation strives to contain, study, understand, and if necessary, neutralize the world's anomalies, be they creatures, people, objects, places, or concepts. Inside is a collection of three SCP stories dealing with different types of feelings, from feelings of toxicity and love, to the bonds of family and friendship, to the feelings of obligation and protection. Each story focuses on a different SCP. Stories included are: 1. Please (SCP-035) 2. Behold (SCP-096) 3. The Right to Bear Arms (SCP-2295).

"Two murderous pirates find a child stowaway on board and attempt to balance pillaging with co-parenting. A woman raised by wolves prepares for her parents' annual Thanksgiving visit. An aging mutant superhero is forced to learn humility when the mayor kicks him upstairs to a desk job. And in the hard-boiled caper--The Big Nap--a weary two-year-old detective struggles to make sense of a world gone mad. Equal parts silly and sincere, New Teeth is an ode to growing up, growing older, and what it means to make a family"--.

"A collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars. Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, "Spoiled Brats" is about a generation of narcissists--and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way"--Back cover.

"A collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars"--OCLC.

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida?its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind?becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury?the moments that make us alive.

Four short stories expand the Delirium world, untangling the mysteries surrounding Lena's mother, exploring Raven's rebel group in the Wilds, and detailing the summer before Lena and Hana are to be cured.

A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.