Genre Short Story. Page - 227

"In a far off land beyond the mountain lay a desert country. To some it was bleak and treeless, to others it was magical. At night the stars sprinkled the sky as if on a dark blue carpet. In the day time the sun beat down on a magnificent landscape of rocks and sand, sand that sometimes rolled in huge dunes towards the horizon. If you were a crow you would look down and see here and there a little patch of green – an oasis where date palms surrounded a well"

This is a nihilistic solipsist short story telling about romance, loneliness, friendship and all of what we considered as a foolish, pointless and unnecessary things we do all the time.

A young woman gets an unsuspected surprise from a client.

A look at the waning phases of innocence, a love of comic books, and the other side of the tracks. A sort of companion piece to Allan Moore's "The Killing Joke".

Attempting to overcome a set of remarkable circumstances, a young man struggles to survive one night in the African bush. (Travel, Comedy)

How do you teach a child not to help a baby bird fallen from it's nest?

Dreams ravaged; wills torn asunder; this novella portrays the plight of a young man striving for survival in the war-torn territory that is Pakistan's Swat region.

Kianna is a preschool aged child who goes to the the hospital to visit her friend, then discovers that she has died. The nurse tells her that her friend has gone to heaven, and that she's a Angel. Kianna doesn't understand or believe that her friend left without telling her. Kianna dosen't know what, or where heaven and Angels are. She learns about heaven and how and why people leave us.

When my cousin kissed me on the cheek and said bye three times i did not expect that would be the last time the tall,handsome 20 year old would walk through our door. He had a curse,one he did not deserve, one even i had but it caught up with him too soon;way too soon.