Stories with a Twist is a collection of 15 fascinating stories, the "twist" adds a new meaning to the lives of the characters . . . and the readers. Innovative and heart-warming, these stories encourage learners to express important things about themselves, their lives, and their world. Each story sparkles with a visual introduction; generates lively discussion; includes a variety of vocabulary and comprehension exercises; encourages independent expression; and caters to all four language skills. The all new CD features a lively reading of each of the fifteen stories, professionally recorded in American English.

How to Write Stories With a Twist will help you understand and master the techniques of writing twist plots for short stories and novels. Packed with advice, tips, writing prompts, exercises and story examples, this book explains the mechanics of twist plots and shows you how to create twist stories of your own. Tales with a twist are fun to produce and because they are so popular with readers, there are plenty of markets for this type of fiction, which makes it a lucrative form of writing. In this book you will discover the six main types of twist: the Unreliable Narrator, Reversal of Identity, Reversal of Motive, Reversal of Perception, Reversal of Achievement, and Reversal of Fortune. Using story examples, including two classics of short twist fiction, you will learn how to analyse stories using a framework that can be used to develop your own twist plots. With chapters on twist ideas, building and outlining a story, sowing clues, using the art of misdirection, editing, proofreading and submitting your manuscript, How to Write Stories With a Twist includes everything you need to get started as a writer of twist fiction. Jane Bettany is a freelance writer, publisher and creative writing teacher with more than twenty years experience of writing fiction. Her stories and non-fiction articles have appeared in women's magazines, literary magazines, newspapers and online. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is a qualified teacher.

Amazing, Uncanny and Spectacular Short Stories is a collection containing various short stories, which have humour, mystery, romance, ghosts and more. Expect unexpected twists in many of the stories. A man starts reading a ghost story in the middle of the forest without realizing that he is part of a ghost story. A boy goes to his kitchen at night and finds a girl there. Is she a ghost? What does she want? Will a boy, who has given up on romantic love, find love again? A person starts telling a story, which is supposed to have an unexpected twist in the end. What will be the unexpected twist? All this and much more is inside this amazing book, that you will never forget.

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Critics call it controversial, twisted, and just plain messed up. Brain parasites, an insane planet ruled by retarded monkeys, violent video games turning teens into...something else, and a bio-weapon that will make you lose your appetite, for a little while. It's all here. Read it now. You know you want to. Stories from the Theater of Science Fiction.

At what point do we make a distinction between illusions and hallucinations? How does the mind distinguish between the two? The short stories in this book mesh them together. They make you rethink; what is an illusion and what is a hallucination?