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Hierdie debuutbundel kortverhale beeld op treffende en insiggewende wyse Mia Ragel Albertyn se grootwordervarings uit – in Kaapstad en op die familieplaas buite Ladismith, van twaalfjarige kind tot ’n jong moeder. Voorop staan telkens die komplekse verhoudings binne die familie, en onderliggend is die helende krag van “storie” en verbeelding in Mia en haar pa se lewe: dit is ook haar redding uit die erflas van depressie.

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Kortverhale op die snykant van die liefde, dit is Izak de Vries se jongste bundel. Kitsliefde oor die internet, ongebreidelde begeerte, oop verhoudings . . . bevredig dit die mens se soeke na die liefde? Begeerte, wys hy, bly lewend deur die onvervulbaarheid daarvan. Die liefde bly daarom, soos skryfwerk oor die liefde, altyd net dit: byna liefde.

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'n Vrou laai vir haar 'n kind en 'n hond langs die pad op, want sy wil nie meer alleen wees nie. 'n Ma besluit om te staak omdat haar man en kinders haar slegter as 'n paradysdonkie behandel. 'n Man begin orrelles neem in 'n desperate poging om God se medelye met hom te toets, maar ontdek dat dit sy eie medemenslikheid is wat beproef word. 'n Predikant verslaaf hom aan 'n rekenaarspeletjie en verloor sy houvas op alles behalwe die geel, rooi, groen en blou blokkies wat hy dag en nag met koorsagtige presisie inmekaar probeer pas. 'n Vrou wat nooit weer aan die huwelik en liefde herinner wil word nie, moet tydens haar skeisaak 'n trourok maak vir 'n aanstaande bruid wat by die dag duideliker oor die buik en bors uitsit.Dis oor boeiende mense soos dié dat Annelie Botes in Trousseaukis skryf – vroue en mans met wie jy jou kan én wil identifiseer. In elkeen van dié dertien stories wys die verteller dat sy die menslike swakheid én goedheid ken, en dat sy weet hoe om met empatie te vertel.

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Mark my words, Leidner is a voice that is here to stay. Has a cult following in indie lit scene. Considered by many to be the BEST at twitter @markleidner. Has many writer connections who will support him.

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Range of styles and moods throughout this collection.Collection contains everything from hard realism to the fantastical to stories bordering on science fiction. Many stories were published recently in a literary magazine (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Baltimore Review; Mississippi Review; New South; etc.)Several stories have been published or are forthcoming in anthologies (2013 Writer's Digest Short Story Competition Collection; Best of Ohio Short Story Anthology)Some influences are Tom Barbash, Stay Up With Me; Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods, and Kentucky Straight; Ben Loory, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the DayMany of the stories feature men and give a male perspective of the culture in which they take place

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Praise for Michael Mirolla: "Intriguing, passionate, sad, hilarious. Mirolla is a master storyteller. . . . Berlin will make you laugh, cry, and cringe."—Toronto Sun "An ambitious novel concerned with the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of fascism and communism."—Quill & Quire "Mirolla . . . is a teller of tales that only the tautest of prose could relate with cohesion and beauty. This book will thrill the mind."—CrimeSpree "Mirolla's book excels."—Rain Taxi "The Facility is a fascinating, thought-provoking novel. If you like quirky, mind-bending books, this one is for you!"—Geekscribe "Mixes theology, cloning, and Beckettlike absurdist alienation. . . . Parallels the division between mind and body, between technology and nature, and between what we can do and what we should do."—Publishers Weekly The Giulio Metaphysics III is a collection of linked tales on the fluidity of identity and the power of the word. A character named Giulio frees himself from his creator in order to write his own story, only to find himself lost and confused, unable at times to recall his own name. He wanders through landscapes both familiar and alien, struggling to return home. Michael Mirolla's publications include a novella, The Ballad of Martin B.; two novels: Berlin (Bressani Literary Prize winner) and The Facility, which features a string of cloned Mussolinis; two story collections: The Formal Logic of Emotion and Hothouse Loves & Other Tales; and a collection of poetry, Light and Time. He is publisher and editor-in-chief of Guernica Editions in Toronto, Ontario.

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Linked story collection, winner of the 2011 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.Very relevant today with the war in Iraq just ended and an entire new generation of veterans living with the after effects of their war experiences. Relevant to contemporary readers because it focuses on the lives of returning soldiers made dysfunctional by the Vietnam War. One of the characters, a veteran, loses his son in Iraq thirty-five years from Vietnam—something else that is a reality for many American families today.This book goes beyond conventional war stories that typically take place in the country where the war is set and explores an interior war, the war of the psyche all soldiers fight when they return from the horrors of combat. For these characters, the war is physically over, but the events linger in their minds forever afterwards. These stories are about what people go through when they return from a combat zone, how they attempt to adapt and how they do or do not survive the nightmare locked in their psyches without the knowledge it takes to heal and alleviate their pain.

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“[Mary] Ruefle . . . brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.”—Charles Simic Fans of Lydia Davis and Miranda July will delight in this short prose from a beloved and cutting-edge poet. Here are thirty stories that deliver the soft touch and the sucker punch with stunning aplomb. Ducks, physicists, detectives, and The New York Times all make appearances. From “The Dart and the Drill”: I do not believe that when my brother pierced my skull with a succession of darts thrown from across our paneled rec room on the night of November 18th in my sixth year on earth, he was trying to transcend the notions of time and space as contained and protected by the human skull. But who can fathom the complexities of the human brain? Ten years later—this would have been in 1967—the New York Times reported a twenty-four year old man, who held an honor degree in law, died in the process of using a dentist’s drill on his own skull, positioned an inch above his right ear, in an attempt to prove that time and space could be conquered . . . Mary Ruefle ’s poems and prose have appeared in Harper’s Magazine , The Best American Poetry , and The Next American Essay . Her many awards include NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. She is a frequent visiting professor at the University of Iowa, and she lives and teaches in Vermont.

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Originally published by Brio, Australia's hip literary indie Hailed as new voice of Australia's avant-garde Skewers hipster / tech culture with humor and a deep love for the characters

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"Candide" is the famous satire and best-known work by Voltaire. First published in 1759, «Candide» is the story of its central character who travels throughout Europe and South America experiencing and witnessing much misfortune on the way. It is within the clever construct of this narrative that Voltaire refutes the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, whose central idea was that life was the best of all possible worlds and that disasters, should they occur, were harbingers of better things to come. Voltaire found this philosophy insultingly ridiculous and within the humorous and satirical construct of this work he effectively exposes the idiocy of a philosophy that was so pervasive in his time. Also included in this volume are the additional short stories 'Micromegas', 'Zadig', 'The Huron (The Ingenu)', 'The White Bull', and the poem 'What Pleases the Ladies'.

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