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The Truth About Gators is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

A sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he’s seeing in secret. When the police pull them over one night, everything changes. Bitch Baby is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

A seventh-grade girl travels to south Alabama where her grandmother is being cared for by incapable extended family members. The mother is overwhelmed with grief. But the girl, busy with her own relationship troubles, witnesses something else disturbing. Her Last Time in Dothan is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Dell gets an emergency call at work: Her best friend’s baby is due today, and something has gone terribly wrong. Speeding across town to beat anyone home, to take down the Welcome Home Baby signs, Dell finds herself revisiting the road that got them both here. The Miracle is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Charles Michael Bryant–Charlie-Bear to his parents–is nine months old and suffers from that age-old and worrisome condition known as colic. The doctors say he'll grow out of it. His father, Sam, wishes he would go ahead and do so...and his mother, Faith, wants a good night's sleep. It isn't gas that keeps Charlie-Bear awake, nor is it heartburn, reflux or a wet diaper. Charlie-bear has drawn the attention of Wicked...a nasty thing who moves as a shadow, speaks only in rhyme and steals the souls of children. He is a monster who creates more nightmares and wants Charlie-Bear to become one.

A woman boards a Greyhound bus to Florida with her ailing sugar daddy on a long journey to meet his mother. In the middle of the night, in the middle of rural Georgia, another passenger disrupts her plan. Seeking Arrangements is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

Maudette works at the state fair. She hates her job, she hates what her mother does for a living, she hates the people in her town, especially one of her mother’s clients, a local deacon. Working the tilt-a-whirl one day, she begins to consider revenge. Honest Work is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

After the death of her father, a larger-than-life preacher, a young woman returns to her hometown to attend his funeral and to clean out his house without the help of his ex, her mother. When a family friend moves in under the premise of caring for her, she begins to question her past. How to Cute and Quarter is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

One wrong turn, two massive egos, and six hundred miles of highway. This isn’t exactly how I pictured my career taking off. But when a cocky, grumpy, infuriatingly gorgeous CEO slams the door on my game-changing pitch, I decide to take matters into my own hands.

The doctor was extremely helpful, and I couldn’t believe just how attractive he was. I was impressed enough by him that when I saw him at a coffee shop a few weeks later, I had to ask him to dinner. I was thrilled when he accepted and I was very thrilled that the evening became passionate. Guess what I didn’t know? Dr. Hawthorne is a billionaire! I had a romantic night with a billionaire, me! I live from paycheck to paycheck. We have nothing in common. What’s going to happen now?

Colleen is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

مع تطور الحياة ووسائل التواصل كان من المفترض أن يصحبه بساطة إنشاء العلاقات ولكن ماحدث عكس ذلك!

قصص واقعية شيقة تحكيها الكاتبة "غادة كريم" تستعرض فيها العلاقات ومشاكلها وكيفية التغلب عليها.

The challenge ahead for Ryan Jordan is to rise above the tragic memories that still haunt him. He sets out on a long uphill climb of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro with a group camping their way through East Africa. It will be three days and nights up into ever-thinning air and cold, forcing himself to go slow to acclimate and ensure success.

The War is over, but for petty criminal Charlie his darkest days are only just beginning. Charlie Briggs is never off-duty, even when a botched job means he's forced to lay low in a sleepy Hampshire town for the holiday season. Always searching for his next unwitting victim, or a shiny trinket he can pilfer, he can't believe his luck when he happens upon a rare book so valuable it will set him up for life.

هذا الكتاب عبارة عن تجربة ثرية كتبها لنا مجموعة من المؤلفين الشباب الموهوبين. عشر قصص محكمة البناء مشتعلة الأفكار فعلاً ومحتواها من التفاصيل الدقيقة،وربما المخيفة والمرعبة التي سوف نستمتع بها. عشر قصص نبدأها تحت ضوء القمر وقصة حول كائن ظلامي ثم ننتقل إلى إمرأة مسجونة ودجال يحاول سرقة روح ابنها،وهل تُسرق الروح؟ وماذا عن طلسم الدرويش شاهين. فهذه قصة أخرى تثير الرعب والخوف في طلاسمها. الميراث...أن ترث مالاَ فهذا شيء عادي لكن ماذا لو ورثت شيئا من عالم آخر. ثم نذهب للضحية الأخيرة وفتاة تتمنى العودة بالزمن،لكن هل يمكن

Prepare for another unforgettable journey into the shadows in Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise Vol. 5. Eloise, the restless ghost of the Anderson house, continues to explore the chilling secrets of the house she haunts. With each passing day, the veil between life and death grows thinner, and Eloise is drawn deeper into the eerie mysteries that define her afterlife.

تتناول كل قصة موضوعاً وشخصيةً مختلفة ومتفردة، وتواجه أحداثاً تؤثر فيها لتتدرج القصة بعد ذلك في سرد سلس وممتع وقريب حتى يكاد يشعر المرء أنه يراهم أمامه كأنهم في ألبوم صور واضحين بملامحهم وهيئتهم في قصص قصيرة تمتاز بالزخم والخيال لتبرز جماليات القصة القصيرة ومكانتها كفن رفيع المستوى على قدر عال من الرقي والتفرد.

يتميز اسلوب إحسان عبد القدوس بالسلاسة والبساطة على الرغم من قوة وعمق المواضيع التي يتناولها، فتتوالى الصفحات والسرد دون أي عناء وبمتعة كبيرة وتتناغم مع الأحداث والشخصيات، دون إطالة وتفاصيل مملة تنفر القاريء بل من خلال وصف يشبه كاميرا سينمائية ومشاهد ممتعة بالإضافة لحوار مميز وجريء يأتي أحياناً باللغة العامية المصرية وفي أحيان أخرى بالعربية الفصحى، ويرى إحسان عبد القدوس المجتمع من زوايا كثيرة ووجهات نظر متعددة فيستخرج منها قصصاً وروايات أمتعت الكثيرين ولا تزال حتى اليوم يعاد طبعها وتباع على نحو مستمر.

بسمة العوفي هي كاتبة وصحفية مصرية، تخرجت من كلية الآداب قسم علوم الإتصال والإعلام - شعبة إذاعة وتليفزيون ٢٠١٠. عملت في مؤسسات متنوعة مثل مجموعةMBC ، وشبكة الصحفيين الدوليين، وأكاديمية دويتش فيلة الألمانية.

هذه مجموعة قصصية تتكون من ست عشرة قصة للكاتب المميز محمد المخزنجي، وتأتي عناوين القصص مميزة ومثيرة للاهتمام وتتسم بالغرابة ومنها: كيف صرت طاهراً ماهراً في ليلة واحدة؟، ابتسامة أم كيسنجر الوحيدة، مصرع ساحر الزجاج، صياد النسيم، وزة نهاية العالم، شجرة الباوباب، عارية على حصان أمام البرلمان، كرسي يمشي على رجلين بكبرياء، خمسون صوتاً تحت شمس الشتاء الصغيرة، سيل الليل، عري أحمر، وقصص أخرى.