Experience the power of masterful storytelling with "Pandemic Love and Other Stories". This compelling book invites you to step into the vividly drawn world of four short stories, each depicting people facing crises in their lives. Gaurav tries to save the life of his friend in "Pandemic Love". Nirav is haunted by separation from daughter, who has been taken away by his estranged wife. In "Voices", a surgeon struggles with a debilitating condition and must choose between her work and risking her patients' lives. "His Secret" explores the painful reality of a mother grappling with her son's hidden struggles. "M4M Seeking LTR" follows a middle-aged gay man who has spent his entire life seeking a long-term relationship, now facing old age and mortality. Meanwhile, in "The Curse of the Astral Body", Ramya's family falls apart as she seeks to escape strange coincidences and vicissitudes, wavering between faith healing and psychiatric help. Through the captivating storytelling of these unforgettable characters, you will be transported into their world, grappling with the complexities of love, loss, and the passage of time. With a writing style that is at once spare and lyrical, the author conveys deep emotion with just a few well-chosen words, leaving a lasting impression on the reader. https://www.ananyaseo.com/pandemic-love-and-other-stories/

Story 1 is about the problems caused by the pandemic. Two boys go fishing with poles in their hands. Story 2 is about a family on vacation. Beware of your surroundings In story 3, the relatives have a family reunion, and there is a certain scarecrow in the garden. In story 4, two donkeys are captured. They put their heads together to plan an escape. In story 5, Captain Keenan goes in search of a new place in the universe—a new home! Story 6 is about a time from the Great Depression through the eyes of a young girl who lived it. Story 7 talks about the adventures a young bunny finds when he decides to go exploring.

This book focuses on a story line that stretches from queer rhythms to social stories. This book is not academically a deconstructive frame and arguments of the any anti-dote, rather it structures certain simple dialogues that nurse and converse failures and also narrates the social patrimony in forms often generated as ‘common’.

"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.

Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics examines the world using a systemic and psychoanalytic lens, including concepts of splitting, separation, projection, displacement, and the return of the repressed. They consider what impact the disappearance of some iconic and psychic containers has on individuals' functioning and why we choose populist leaders to shore up our own social defences. They question why the world feels so threatening to the twenty-first-century linked-in citizens when the objective facts suggest that overall much is improving for the global citizen. Building on their previous work, Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee have created a coherent framework in order to conceptualise global dynamics within a matrix form. The matrix contains dialectic dynamic forces for both good and evil, love and hate, creation and destruction. They take a closer look at the plethora of phenomena which they see arising therein. Whilst the matrix holds steady, inside it is a world in constant flux, reconfiguring and rearranging itself, as if in a kaleidoscope, with inevitable and unavoidable turbulence, but - Brunning and Khaleelee hypothesise - with an underlying pattern that is available to be discerned and studied. Aware of this turbulence, Brunning and Khaleelee wish to share their view of the world in the hope of offering a containing reflection, capable of calming the nerves of the readers as well as their own.

Passionate romance stories that are very short, but no less uplifting There are 200 stories in Love in Brief and each one is just two sentences long. The thrilling, bite-sized tales in this collection are presented in three categories: – ‘Single and Dating’. Awe-inspiring stories about those who hope to find someone remarkable and enjoy letting their naughty side run wild. – ‘Relationships Thriving’. Blissful stories about lasting connections full of love and lust. – ‘Relationships Failing’. Eye-opening stories about bonds breaking and the agony that ensues. Meet hopeful people ready to open up their hearts to a significant other and those who crave sensual contact with others. See people who are happy together and whose desire for each other is unconditional. Witness the painful, devastating break-up of partnerships that were once strong. If you’re a romance fan and you like very short fiction, you’ll enjoy Love in Brief. Buy now and discover some of the shortest romance stories around.

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