The stories in Teardown seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign - a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC ferry, a father chaperoning his daughter's class on a field trip, a young waitress's burgeoning friendship with a co-worker - but are in fact fraught, often pivotal times in her characters' lives. The stories in this arresting debut collection are populated with people you know and people you've been. They're arguing about lamps in IKEA, drinking gin and tonics on a doc...
Fifth Business (Deptford Trilogy, #1) (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
by Robertson Davies
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of car...
The Rapturous Moon (Minorie Raine: Trials & Tribulations, #2)
by Tara D W Tine
Entre Realidad y Fantasía. Cuentos cortos. No es todo lo que parece
by Mf Peñaloza