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Title: The Incurables

Author: Mark Brazaitis

Narrator: William Coon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: Mark Brazaitis

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and familial love.

Other stories in the collection include "A Map of the Forbidden," about a straight-laced man who is tempted to cheat on his wife after his adulterous father dies, and "The Boy Behind the Tree," about a problematic father-son relationship made more so by the arrival on the scene of a young man the son's age. In "I Return," a father narrates a story from the afterlife, discovering as he does so that he is not as indispensable to his family as he had believed.

Members Reviews:

Mixed bag of fun!

This is my first Mark Brazaitis and it was a really good first meeting! I really enjoy short stories, and these were almost perfect, i really enjoyed the story about the town that suddenly got people that jumped of a bridge to kill them self! Other then that there was a mixed bag of fun, that not always hit me, but there was no stories that made me wish i would not hear it! Mark Brazaitis first meeting with me is a meeting i want again, so i give him a hig 4,4 out of 5!

William Coon is brilliant as he is always! I loved him in Stories to Read While Driving: Kill the King and Other Tales and Changing Michael! I still love him! I said in one of the books that: "He is funny when needed, and not when needed. There is something about William Coon that is had to explain, he has the "x-factor" and that shows so clear in this book" I feel the same here! 8 hrs and 2 mins in William Coon is perfect compony! William Coon is that good!

I was provided this audiobook at no charge for a honest review from the narrator.

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Title: Snowybrook Inn

Subtitle: Book 2

Author: Scott Reeves

Narrator: Scot Wilcox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-13

Publisher: Scott Reeves

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to the magical land of Snowybrook Vale! While you're here, enjoy good company, fine drink, and elegant lodging, all to be had at Vale's premier vacation spot, Snowybrook Inn. But if you venture into the countryside, watch out for shadows! Because Goblins lurk behind every rock, and Imperial soldiers are always around, looking to teach unruly frontiersmen a lesson.

Snowybrook Inn is an ongoing whimsical fantasy series in an episodic format. Each audiobook consists of four to five stand-alone short stories featuring the same main characters. There's not much of an ongoing story, so you can pretty much pick up and start listening anywhere in the series without missing anything crucial.

In this second audiobook, the Snowybrook Inn is haunted by a ghost, Fairdawn is caught out in a Banshee blizzard, and Bubba takes a disastrous day off. Finally, the last god remaining among mortals decides it's time to leave, and Fairdawn seeks a boon from him.

Stories in this volume include: "The Ghost," "The King's Rings," "Bubba's Day Off," and "The Last God."

Members Reviews:

Entertaining But Undeveloped

This is the second issue of the ongoing series Snowybrook Inn, which follows the owners of the Snowybrook Inn as fantasy adventures come to them and impact their lives. The first issue did an entertaining job of setting up the setting and characters, and this second issue built on this. The story was fun, and the characters well used. However, the plot flew by without the depth that I felt could be there. In the space of a few pages, a character is introduced, goes from a object of distaste to being reconciled and becoming good, to dying. In the space of time giving to it, it made the protagonists of the story seem foolish to dislike the oppressive governmental figure, rather than showing any character growth. If this story, instead of being a one-issue standalone, had been given a number of issues to spread out and be fully explored, it could have been much better. However, having enjoyed the first issue, and thinking the second issue wasn't bad, just not all it could be, I will be keeping my eyes out for Snowybrook Inn #3.

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Title: Gracious Lies

Subtitle: Stories by Hilda Lolly

Author: Hilda Lolly

Narrator: Anne Reid, Joanna David

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-13

Publisher: Creative Content

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Gracious Lies, is a collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage. In Hand, Foot & Finger, imperious Leonard and his pale wife Audrey head once again to Aunty Lynnes West Country guesthouse. Can Audrey endure another week of toil on the beautiful beaches of Weston-super-Mare? The New Mrs Barefoot is en route, but for faithful family retainer, Dobbo, life may never be the same as he discovers his employers new wife is not quite the heavenly creature he was expecting. In Lemon, knife-sharp tensions erupt between Claire and husband Trevor, when his reminiscences and red wine consumption look set to ruin a dinner party designed to impress her new boss.

While in Upper Rugless, a life of bucolic tranquillity and Victoria sponge is simply not as delightful as it promised to be as high-spirited Jemima is about to find out. And in Sixty-Six Steps to Mother Gerald and Angela ascend for Christmas lunch. Will it be a case of like mother, like son? And will it be a step too far for the impeccably attired Angela? Peel back the nets and enter, if you dare, the darkly delicious world of Gracious Lies

Members Reviews:

Amusingly tales with a twist

Any additional comments?

A series of short stories, all with a twist, beautifully read by Joanna David and Anne Reid

Gracious Lies

Anne Reid and Joanna David bring these five short stories to life. I loved every minute of this very funny but dark audiobook. After following Hilda Lolly's Ramblings on line, I was overjoyed when I heard that there would be an audio of short stories. Each story is an audible gem from husband and wife Leonard and Audrey on holiday to the redoubtable Dobbo looking after the inheritance of the Barefoot family. A thoroughly 5 star listen. So please Hilda get your computer out and get some more penned.

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Title: A Mother For Emily

Author: Frank Zubek

Narrator: Anjna Patel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-13

Publisher: Francis J Zubek

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A woman who has recently discovered that she cannot have children encounters a homeless teenage mom who is desperate enough to walk away from the newborn she can't afford to care for.

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Title: Under the Magnolia Tree: What Does a Mint Julep Taste Like?

Author: Will Bevis

Narrator: Lynn Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-13

Publisher: Will Bevis

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

About this Short Story:

Come along and catch a glimpse into a world you rarely see.

Perhaps you've seen a hint of it out of the corner of your eye...

but it's better to ignore it.

Isn't it?

In this instance,

It all starts out under a Magnolia Tree...

And ends where?

About the Author: Will Bevis is a prolific writer of short, sometimes controversial "Slice of life" stories, articles, essays and memoirs that make you feel you are right there, experiencing the story as it it happens. His best known story is the Top One Hundred Free for Kindle story, "The Killing of Train-Man Brown." He has written over fifty short stories including, :Then Her Wig Fell Off," "Let the Dog Drive," "Blackbird;" and many, many others. Many are available as audio books.

Note: Twice a year, at Christmas and the 4th of July, the author gives all of his eBooks that he can away free. (16,000 were given away in the last two giveaways. The next giveaway will be the five days before the 4th of July, 2013, and will include a completely new eBook, The Elvis Journals. Go to WillBevis.com for more details.

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Title: Sir Pompey and Madame Juno

Author: Martin Armstrong

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

This new volume of tales show, that show that Martin Armstrong had no intention of abandoning the short story, and it displays, besides, a breadth of treatment and sureness of touch considerably in advance of the Bazaar and the earlier Puppet Show. Like them, it contains a selection which ranges from fantastic farce, as in Aunt Hetty, to grim realism, as in The Patrol. Some listeners say they do not like short stories. This is an audiobook which will dispel their prejudice.

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882 - 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He served in World War I in the British Army in France - a Private in the Artists' Rifles, he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1915 and promoted Lieutenant in 1916. He was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology. He married in 1929 Canadian writer Jessie McDonald after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.

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Título: ¿Existen los monstruos? [Are There Monsters?]

Autor: Tony Jimenez

Narrador: Jose Díaz Meco, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 17 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-08-13

Editor: Sonolibro

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

¿Existen los monstruos? Sonolibro dramatizado con música y efectos especiales.

Un escritor atenazado por el dolor debido a la pérdida de sus seres queridos busca una respuesta. Dolido y carcomido por la rabia, recorre el mundo indagando sobre los monstruos, porque, eso es lo que debe haberse llevado a su familia, ¿verdad? Un monstruo; no puede haber sido otra cosa. Pero existen?

Lejos de ser un audiolibro convencional este sonolibro está dramatizado con distintas voces para cada personaje, música y efectos sonoros, proporcionando al oyente una increíble experiencia inmersiva.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Seven At The Sevens

Author: WritersAnonymous.org, Grant Trenton Gardner (editor)

Narrator: John Lano, Heidi Baker, Andy Barnett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-13

Publisher: Red Planet Audiobooks

Ratings: 1.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

CAUTION: Creativity.

-WritersAnonymous.org

Funny, powerful & moving.

-NPR. Listen now at: radioboston.wbur.org/2012/07/02/sevens-short-storie

Enjoy this delightful new genre of wordplay. [said in exactly 7 words of course]

-Prof. Steven Pinker, Harvard University

Seven At The Sevens is for writers interested in building a successful and supportive literary community.

-Princeton University Alumni Magazine

If you love writing, this book will make you feel connected with a passionate & funny group of people who share your love. The illustrations are memorable, & sometimes haunting. The quotes from Hemingway & others will inspire you. Goes with Charlie Haden's American Dream.

-American novelist Barry Eisler, San Francisco

A stroll down Charles Street in Beacon Hill feels like a step back in time the 19th century, in fact. Stop at 77 Charles St. & you'll find yourself at The Sevens Pub, a historic establishment that opened in 1933. If it happens to be a Tuesday night at 7, you'll often see a group of writers huddled in the left window of the pub, discussing everything from Walt Whitman to the origin of the universe. They are WritersAnonymous.

-Boston Globe

As you savor these succinct musings, you realize you do not need a lot of words to convey something poignant and powerful. It is above all the brevity of the language that is the engine that provides the inspiration that perhaps, will enable you to embrace the challenge with both trepidation and delight.

-Publisher/Editor, Norman Goldman, Montreal

Due to this volume our campus book club is now a writers group.

-Student, Dartmouth College

On most good days, if we're not trying to suck the cerebral cortex out of some wannabe writer's eye sockets, at The Rag we like nothing more than the opportunity to vomit chunks on some new book. But this isn't the case with Seven At The Sevens. Buy it & read it.

-The Rag, Lower East Side, NY

Critic Reviews:

"Elvis Costello, Angelina Jolie, Jason Schwartzman and Michelle Obama were all spotted recently with a new book believed to be a copy of SEVEN AT THE SEVENS, often described as Hemingway meets Kerouac and all hell breaks loose. The writers of WritersAnonymous.org are indeed living a satire of their own lives. However, this statement is both unsubstantiated and confusing." (The Onion, Chicago/NYC)

"It's in your best interest never to underestimate beautiful women or this beautiful book." (Student, NYU)

"The constraint of having to limit utterances to seven words is inspiring. They resemble the one-line poems of John Ashbery. Highly collaborative, like a friendly game in which everyone wins. The ultimate result is hilarity." (Writer's Digest - this text refers to the paperback edition)

Members Reviews:

Seven "chapters" of prologue? No thanks.

I was curious what this free, quirky title might be about.

After 20 minutes of "what they have to say" and "how this came to be", I was no longer curious.

I still don't know, but now I don't care. Tedious introductions ruined it; I hope your experience is better than mine was.

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Title: Born of Corruption

Author: Pierce Novak

Narrator: Pierce Novak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-13

Publisher: Novak

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

At the edge of fatigue on the last vestiges of sight he sees it. Carrying the purest blade ever forged he pursues it. Filth. Vile and wretched creature. He spits. Born out of corruption and slavery. Grass blackening. Uncertainty. Who is he? Does he have what it takes?

Members Reviews:

I managed to get back to this earlier book, and I am glad I got the beginning.

I have read the later versions of his snapshots of a longer work. I finally got back to the beginning before I got on this site to read off my kindle. His backdrop of the beginning further enhanced my wishes to keep reading his descriptions and story-line of this enslave person and see his out come in the story. All of the questions will someday be answered, as the author keeps us on the edge waiting for the outcome. I was not disappointed.

didn't get it

I didn't get this one either. It was written very well but I didn't follow it so I will not purchase the book. I think it was a short teaser into the full story. Sorry.

Two Stars

not interesting and too evil

A good taster

This short story was very good and left me wanting more. I look forward to more of the same well done.

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Title: Skördebrev [Combine Letters]

Author: Helena Granström

Narrator: Helena Granström

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-13

Publisher: Novellix

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Jag skriver till dig med mina fingrar, med mina koögon och mina flugor. Med min boskapshunger och juverblick, med min bokstavsspilta och min klöver. Med mina klövar och min bakdel. Med min bakfot, med min mening. Minns du hur det var att vara pojke?" Det här är en ljudnovell frn Novellix, inläst av författaren själv. Novellix ger ut nyskrivna noveller av svenska författare, skdespelare och musiker. Novellix-novellerna finns i tre format - som tryckt bok, e-bok och ljudbok. Läs mer p novellix.se

Please Note: This audiobook is in Swedish.