Sarah gasped. She picked up the only thing close at hand, a large wooden stirring spoon, and braced herself for his entrance. Hearing footsteps. One, two, three… Jo Jo discovered Sarah shivering and cornered in the kitchen. He took in the situation with aplomb, dropping a handful of wet mail on the counter next to her keys. “Wull ain’t you the dutiful housewife an’ such?” He hefted a metal digging shovel from somewhere, possibly their own garage. Sarah didn't glance back at the swinging door or shout for help. No matter what, she was determined not to reveal that Brenda was in the house. No need for both of them to become Jo Jo's victims... Wash the Spider Out: Drastic Measures Volume Two is the continuing pursuit of all the places the human mind goes when it's cornered. A collection of short stories ranging from humor to horror by 13 extraordinary authors featuring Tommy B. Smith, Larry Lefkowitz, Carl MacKenzie, Anibal Reyes, and more.

Wash the Spider Out: Drastic Measures Volume Two

Literature & Fiction

Day, Holly

Smith, Tommy B.

Parris, Ben

Evtimova, Zdravka

Goldner, Sharon

Worrell, Dwain

Lefkowitz, Larry

Post, Brad

Short Stories & Anthologies

Blueberry Lane Books

Parable of Stones & Other Stories

All Things That Matter Press

Laura and Other Stories

Snuggly Books

“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Roots and wings are the key words that best describe the short story collection, Carts and Other Stories, by Zdravka Evtimova. The book is emotionally multilayered and memorable because of its internal power, vitality and ability to touch both the heart and your mind. Within its pages, the reader discovers new perspectives true wealth, and learns to see the world with different eyes. The collection lives on the borders of different cultures. Carts and Other Stories will take the reader to wild and powerful Bulgarian mountains, to silver rains in Brussels, to German quiet winter streets and to wind bitten crags in Afghanistan. This book lives for those seeking to discover the beauty of the world around them, and will have them appreciating what they have -- and perhaps what they have lost as well.

Carts and Other Stories

Fomite

Sinfonia Bulgarica is a novel about four women in contemporary Bulgaria: a rich cold-blooded heiress, a masseuse dreaming of peace and quiet that never come, a powerful wife of the most influential man in the country, and a waitress struggling against all odds to win a victory over lies, poverty and humiliation. It is a realistic book of vice and yearning, of truthfulness and schemes, of love and desperation. The heroes are plain-spoken characters, whose action is limited by the contradictions of a society where lowness rules at many levels. The novel draws a picture of life in a country where many people believe that “Money is the most loyal friend of man”. Yet the four women have an even more loyal friend: ruthlessness of life.

Sinfonia Bulgarica

Contemporary

<p>Zdravka Evtimova’s novel You Can Smile on Wednesdays focuses on day-to-day lives of three sisters Luba, Sara and Pirina who live in the small Bulgarian town of Radomir. Pirina sings songs that have no tunes, but can ease loneliness and pain; Sara has numerous boyfriends. One of them builds a church for her in which loners go to pray and soon find love. Luba reads all the time, so much that she absents herself from real world, a fact that makes her attractive in some illogical yet convincing way. We never go in the same river twice — the river does not follow the route that universe has mapped out for it; its waters flow with the songs into which the characters have transformed their lives.The Bulgarian poet Valentin Dishev was the first to define Zdravka Evtimova’s fiction as “mythical realism”. In this concept, he includes the author’s ability to create contemporary myths: through sharp realism and subtlety, Zdravka Evtimova reveals truths whose roots go back to the past and talk to the future</p>

You Can Smile on Wednesdays

Literary

Asylum for Men and Dogs

He May Wear My Silence

Genre Fiction

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