Showing results for title "The Cut" in Literature & Fiction

After weeks of torturous teasing and making her wait, Mr. Edwards finally gave Abby everything she'd been waiting for, but just as things looked like they were going her way, everything changed. What is she going to learn when the couple returns in the morning? Will her plans change again? Will she lose all that she's gained with her new daddy? How will her story end?

Look closely. Closer. Do you see the cuts? It's not just this writer, they're on everybody. Tiny little slashes of pain from being ignored, forgotten, rejected, overlooked, called out, betrayed, victimized, demoralized, humiliated, afraid.... Through Cuts on Me, Adrienne Ijioma reports on her assemblage of wounds bitterly formed by events experienced navigating through Life.

It's 2016. Lance Alcocke, sole heir to an iron ore fortune, 40-ish bachelor, has just lost control of his life's work. His newly opened mine, Madeleine's Monster, named after his pioneering, iron-fisted grandmother, was supposed to be a workers' paradise in the Pilbara. But the Monster can't cover its costs, and Lance's Korean financiers are trying to steal his company out from under him. They've appointed administrators to APC Minerals, and Lance's 1,200 workers have lost their jobs.

Welcome to Cherry Run, Pennsylvania, the epitome of a “blink and you’ll miss it” American town, where the jobs are dead-end, the ultimate dream is hitting the lottery, and the only apparent escape is drinking at the Ruffled Grouse. In story-like chapters, Strip Cuts spans a seven-year period, beginning with and centering around Seth Hardy, a young man struggling to come into his own despite a dreaded nickname and the low expectations of those around him.

We meet Evelyn as she is dumping a "male" friend who, in today's world, would be considered her lover. He probably was, but in 1920, they just did not say that in polite literature. Meet the bowl. It was a wedding gift to Evelyn from another suitor she dumped when she married Mr. Porter. As you might guess Evelyn is a beautiful yet rather shallow person. The male friend was about to leave but, unfortunately, Mr. Porter is walking up the drive. Evelyn hides her friend in the closet, but when he decides to leave he bumps into the bowl and it gives off a resounding alarm.

Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand splash who is also a man sinking into his own sovereign darkness. And Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress, who sees something in Xas that no one has ever seen before, not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed.

How far do you have to run to escape your past? Frank Sedrick needed to find out. Sailing single-handed from Newport to the Caribbean in his custom sloop, he thought he was free to pursue new desires, only to find Ensign Tom Nichols of the U.S. Coast Guard hot on his tail. As you listen to Cut from the Fold, you will find that murder seemed to follow Frank. Frank was happy to sail away from Newport. Ensign Nichols of the U.S. Coast Guard wasn’t deterred in his search for justice as the bodies kept piling up in the Caribbean.

Just after dawn Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for the past four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug by the fence bordering the sugar cane fields. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long after, he calls her to say it's something else. Something terrible. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.

This delightful narrative takes readers on a powerful search to unlock the secrets of dog cognition, based on evidence from trainers, owners, behaviorists, and the animals themselves. With in-depth reporting and more than a few personal adventures, bestselling author Jennifer S. Holland digs into what intelligence really means.Readers will meet a pack of genius dogs embodying all types of smarts. Holland heads into the field with a cadaver dog and his trainer to learn about "nose intelligence.” To unpack emotional intelligence, she examines how dogs help people dealing with trauma. To ...

The first time Joe plays Percy one of his songs in his college room in 2000, she instantly realises three things: One, she is watching a star in the making. Two, she can shape his music into something extraordinary. Three, she will always be on the sidelines. She swallows her jealousy and throws herself into collaboration, transforming Joe’s songs into indie hits with her blistering critiques. But there’s an undercurrent to the music they’re making – something undeniably electric, hurtling toward love. And then, almost inevitably, towards heartbreak.

Wax on, wax off. They didn’t make films in the 80s. They made movies – enchanted windows of wish-fulfilment, in which impossibly attractive characters, subtly highlighted by golden sunlight or the opulent colours of fairgrounds and amusement arcades, led us into adventures that were worlds away from our humdrum classrooms and playgrounds. Wax on, wax off. Their appeal might be baffling to everyone who has grown up with the sterile perfection of digital media. But my generation keep revisiting the same familiar faces - the Goonies, the Extra Terrestrial... the Karate Kid. These were the ...

Welcome to the podcast dedicated to demystifying the audition process and uncovering the art of directing in Film, TV, and Theatre. I'm your host, Marion Githegi, and this show is an immersive experience into the world of storytelling and the art of casting. Whether you're an aspiring actor, film enthusiast/buff, or just curious about the industry, this podcast offers something for everyone. In each episode I delve deep into the minds of directors, unravelling the intricacies of their decision-making process when choosing actors. Then I take you behind the scenes, offering a front-row seat to ...

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Scientific discovery is often a collaborative experience. But for a group of men in the early 1800s studying birds of North America, it was a messy and chaotic effort to identify and write about many different species as possible, all while trying to outdo each other. Naturalist Kenn Kaufman writes about what John James Audubon and his peers discovered (and what they missed) and how it impacts our understanding of the world today. His book is called, The Birds That Audubon Missed, and Kaufman joins us to discuss.This episode is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar

Black Market Voices proudly presents Surrogate: The Director's Cut - The Podfic!Fully scripted, cast-acted and with audio effects, some of the fandom has come together to attempt this monumental task, and we are overjoyed to finally let you hear it.What is it? Well, you'll have to listen and find out won't you? Make good, peons, I don’t have all century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

English literature teacher and erotica writer Mark Jones grows up not knowing much about his family. This curiosity has left him with a void and desire to know love and his history in a profound way. Fate steps in one day when Mark meets Miranda Parker who he falls for but soon discovers she holds a dark secret. Through an odd twist of fate, Mark discovers from one of his students’ papers some disturbing news about who Miranda is and the life she leads. Will fate be enough to keep the couple together once the shocking discovery is revealed?

Der Deutsche Chris und der Kurde Ali sind beste Freunde seit der Kindheit. Bis zu dem Tag als die beiden beim Angeln am Main, eine schwere Eisenkiste finden. Der jüdische Goldschmid Abi Goldberg hatte die wertvollen Aufträge seiner Kunden in den letzten Tagen vor der Enteignung durch die Nationalsozialisten hier in Sicherheit gebracht. Ein beigelegter Handzettel dokumentiert diesen Vorgang. Der alte Buchladen-Besitzer Fred Stern übersetzt die fremde Schrift für Chris, dieser ist danach sichtlich ergriffen und dafür die Schmuckstücke, an die rechtmäßigen Besitzer bzw. deren Nachfahren zurückzugeben.

A compilation of five of my latest short stories, available in audio format. Included in the collection are "The Candy Bar", "Maid to Order", "Sight Unseen", "Getting the Boot", "Good Help Is Hard to Get", "Vigil-Auntie", and "Where've You Been".

The Reaper did not speak. He did not even move, for what need did he have to chase anyone? Everyone comes to him eventually. Men, women, and gods all are consumed in his ever waiting black. Clive, sighing deeply, turned to look Death in the face. In the form he took for Clive, Death stood around seven feet tall, the hood of his monk’s cowl falling to just above the bridge of the nose, had there been a nose to speak of. Instead, there was simply a hole, a cavernous nothing, like death itself.

A show about comic strips, comicbooks, & comic characters. Each guest brings a panel from a comic. The panel try and guess where it's from, then talk about it. Hopefully we all go away learning something about comics we didn't already know, or maybe we've just showed off a bit. Hosted by Kev F Sutherland, writer & artist for Beano and Marvel, now busy adapting Shakespeare into graphic novels.