"Glimmer Train presents literary short stories by award-winning and upcoming writers. Here are some excerpts: Cheri Johnson Guralnick Whenever one of those little wolves came in on the same pitch as another, the first wolf lifted or dropped its voice to make it sound as if the pack were growing all the time. Susan Perabo Why They Run the Way They Do Sweetie, Tommy says miserably. And right then it becomes apparent that one of us is goi ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts: Terrence Cheng The Merchant All familiar faces, part of a community that worked and lived and fought and struggled together, some behind open doors, some behind closed. Many from the same clans back in Guangdong, so that even here in New York there was a sense of home, of living a familiar life while still dreaming a new one. Vauhini Vara We'll Rise Above the Sk ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writersExcerpts:Karen Outen Inside the Universe of His ParentsUnless he came to know that, unless he came to that new shore just beyond him, that place where he might understand the two of them, then the rest of the world would never make sense. He would never find anchor. Michael SchiavoneGhost PainWe met last summer, the two of us partnering up for The Monkey's Fist Bluefish Tournamen ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts: John S. Walker Among the Least of These She was the kind that would hang on, who had the faith of a mustard seed, but brimmed with a severe hope. His father, the pastor of a congregation of Swedish Presbyterians, had spent hours at her bedside when they believed the fever was finally going to take her. Shimon Tanaka The Suit He had seen much of America--it was all an a ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts: Melanie Rae Thon Saviors The ambulance took seventeen astonishing minutes. Willis and Louise sang the whole time, soft and low, sweet rock-a-bye love songs, as if the man were their first and last and most beloved only child. Armand ML Inezian See Me These old memories--the tastes of candies of his youth, pictures of rooms on other continents, the smell of long-defunc ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:Ingrid HillPavilionA tent maker has just completed a job for the army, the construction of several officers' tents for field maneuvers. He is carrying brown canvas, a color just a little too rich, a little too beautiful, for the army. But dye lots are irregular. What can one do? Jennifer Anne MosesDuty FreeHe remembered a time when he was maybe eleven or twelve when he' ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts: Nellie Hermann Can We Let the Baby Go? Life was confusing and strange and unpredictable, and here, the two of them joined in holy matrimony under this tree in Virginia, here was the proof that we could never comprehend it. K.L. Cook Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard That was how we passed the fall and then winter and then most of the next spring, watching my father and ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts:E. A. Durden Mr. Dabydeen He will buy the goat himself, to curry for dinner he will walk the two miles this morning to Western Beef, where he will see every Hindu woman from Guyana, all there to buy goat. Xhenet Aliu You Say Tomato Shalom meant hello, goodbye, and peace. I used to wonder how people knew which meaning someone actually intended when they said it, but Sue ..."
"Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts: Carmiel Banasky Save In the Mississippi Delta the earth is water-line flat. The earth is no egg. Horizon so far off you have to imagine it's there to keep your heart steady. Hubert Ahn Korean Wedding For Koreans, technically, when someone a year older than you tells you to jump off a bridge, you're supposed to jump off the bridge. Little jewels of knowledge like that g ..."
"Danielle Lavaque-Manty The Safety of Milk She'd begun saying this soon after their wedding, whenever she grew anxious about something he planned to do. William Luvaas Ashes Rain Down Ashes pile in drifts against fences, turn our lawns calcium white, make a foul, acrid soup of water in dogs' bowls. They sift down collars, creep through walls, and form a fine pellicle over the furniture. Al Sim Soledad Enough sunlight filtered in for Ri ..."
Free to create artistic freedom in Europe: Council of Europe report on the freedom of artistic expression by SaraWhyatt 53 Pages, Published 2023 by Council Of Europe ISBN-13: 978-92-871-9315-5, ISBN: 92-871-9315-0
"It reflects the work carried out by the Council of Europe, other international intergovernmental organisations promoting freedom of expression and human rights, and non-governmental, civil society and cultural organisations concerned with ..."
"It reflects the work carried out by the Council of Europe, other international intergovernmental organisations promoting freedom of expression and human rights, and non-governmental, civil society and cultural organizations concerned with ..."