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The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from awardwinning writer E. Lily Yu. In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage. At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world. For readers who loved the intelligence and compassion in Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and the dreamlike prose of Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners, Jewel Box: Stories collects the acclaimed short fiction of E. Lily Yu, whose work has been praised in the New York Times as “devastating and perfect.”

E. Lily Yu (Author), Cindy Kay, Ramiz Monsef, Soneela Nankani (Narrator)

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Posing As People: Three Stories, Three Plays

Science fiction is rare in theatrical form, but with Posing As People, three unforgettable sci-fi stories by Orson Scott Card are adapted into powerful stage plays by three different writers. “Clap Hands and Sing” shows us a lonely—but rich and powerful—old man who has only one wish before he dies: To go back in time and take an opportunity for love that he once let slip by. But what will it do to the young girl who used to love him? “Lifeloop” pretends to be reality TV twenty-four hours a day. In fact, they’re really actors. But when your character is you, without any break, how exactly do you have a “real” life? And how can a fellow actor tell you that he loves you, when that’s what the script also calls for him to say? “Sepulchre of Songs” is about a heartbreakingly lovely girl who lost her arms and legs many years ago, and now yearns to be free, not just of the rest home where she lives, but of her body. So is the alien being who wants to trade places with her real or the product of her own imagination? And can her therapist’s growing love for her keep her from fleeing—either into space or the dark recesses of her own mind? Read by Eric Artell, Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Sara Ellis, Kirby Heybourne, Kelly Lohman, Stefan Rudnicki, Lara Schwartzberg, and Victoria Von Roth, the original cast of the stage production, September 21, 2004 at the Whitefire Theatre Los Angeles directed by Orson Scott Card.

Aaron Johnston, Emily Janice Card, Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick (Author), A Full Cast, Eric Artell, Kelly Lohman, Kirby Heyborne, Lara Schwartzberg, Sara Ellis, Stefan Rudnicki, Victoria Von Roth (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La conjuración de las palabras

Descripción - Description La conjuración de las palabras es un divertido cuento de Benito Pérez Galdós acerca de un alzamiento de las palabras del Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua contra los literatos que tan mal uso hacen de ellas. Con un humor y una imaginación desaforadas, el autor nos ofrece una clase de gramática castellana y plantea interesantes juegos con el lenguaje y las ideas. Si alguna vez pensó que Benito Pérez Galdós era un autor muy serio y antiguo, sus cuentos le sorprenderán. La conjuración de las palabras is an amusing short story by Benito Pérez Galdós about an uprising of the words of the Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua against the writers who misuse them so badly. With humor and imagination, the author offers us a lesson in Spanish grammar and poses interesting games with language and ideas. If you ever thought that Benito Pérez Galdós was a very serious and old-fashioned author, his short stories will surprise you. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales. Cover art design: David Rubiales.

Benito Pérez Galdós (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La novela en el tranvía

Descripción - Description La novela en el tranvía es un divertido e imaginativo cuento de Benito Pérez Galdós en el que acompañamos a su desconocido protagonista en el recorrido de la primera línea de tranvía que existió en Madrid, entre la calle Serrano y el desaparecido barrio de Pozas. En el tiempo que dura el trayecto, realidad y ficción van entremezclándose de manera explosiva, mientras se va desvelando la trama de un crimen pasional, a medio camino entre la ensoñación y la verdad, en el corazón de un Madrid que toma cuerpo en los viajeros que suben y bajan del tranvía. Se puede decir que el protagonista de esta historia es un Alonso Quijano Galdosiano que se juega la cordura por la vía de la curiosidad y la imaginación. Si alguna vez pensó que Benito Pérez Galdós era un autor muy serio y antiguo, sus cuentos le sorprenderán. La novela en el tranvía is an amusing and imaginative short story (cuento) by Benito Pérez Galdós in which we accompany its unknown protagonist on the route of the first tramway line that existed in Madrid, between Serrano Street and the disappeared neighborhood of Pozas. During the journey, reality and fiction intermingle in an explosive way, while the plot of a crime of passion is unveiled, halfway between reverie and truth, in the heart of a Madrid that takes shape in the travelers who get on and off the streetcar. It can be said that the protagonist of this story is a Galdosian Alonso Quijano who stakes his sanity on curiosity and imagination. If you ever thought that Benito Pérez Galdós was a very serious and old-fashioned author, his stories will surprise you. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales. Cover art design: David Rubiales.

Benito Pérez Galdós (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Un tribunal literario

Descripción - Description Un tribunal literario es un divertido cuento de Benito Pérez Galdós en el que el protagonista somete una novela que acaba de escribir a la severa mirada de tres críticos literarios, ilustres escritores que encarnan distintas visiones caricaturizadas de la literatura: el romanticismo, el realismo, y el clasicismo. Con esta obra en la que la fina ironía de Pérez Galdós pone frente al espejo importantes movimientos literarios de su época, el autor nos ofrece una cómica y fresca reflexión acerca del camino del escritor y de los personajes que pueblan la vida cultural de cualquier tiempo. Si alguna vez pensó que Benito Pérez Galdós era un autor muy serio y antiguo, sus cuentos le sorprenderán. Un tribunal literario is an amusing short story by Benito Pérez Galdós in which the protagonist submits a novel he has just written to the severe opinion of three literary critics, illustrious writers who embody different caricatured visions of literature: romanticism, realism, and classicism. With this work in which the fine irony of Pérez Galdós puts in front of the mirror important literary movements of his time, the author offers us a comical and fresh reflection on the path of the writer and the characters that populate the cultural life of any time. If you ever thought that Benito Pérez Galdós was a very serious and old-fashioned author, his stories will surprise you. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales. Cover art design: David Rubiales.

Benito Pérez Galdós (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El espiritista

Descripción - Description El Espiritista es un breve y divertido relato satírico de Benito Pérez Galdós acerca del espiritismo y los medium, una cuestión muy de moda en su época. A través de distintas entrevistas con espíritus del más allá, el protagonista va desvelando algunos misterios de la historia. Si alguna vez pensó que Benito Pérez Galdós era un autor muy serio y antiguo, sus cuentos le sorprenderán. El Espiritista is a short and amusing satirical story by Benito Pérez Galdós about spiritism and mediums, a very hot topic in his time. Through different interviews with spirits from the beyond, the protagonist unveils some mysteries of History. If you ever thought that Benito Pérez Galdós was a very serious and old-fashioned author, his stories will surprise you. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales. Cover art design: David Rubiales.

Benito Pérez Galdós (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Una industria que vive de la muerte

Descripción - Description Una industria que vive de la muerte es un interesante cuento de Benito Pérez Galdós en el que, durante una epidemia de cólera en Madrid, contrapone la capacidad de sugestión de la música y la de los sonidos de la vida mundana. El autor nos ofrece interesantes paradojas apenas esbozando algunos personajes, y tiene la capacidad de hacernos reflexionar desde un episodio donde la vida se abre paso tras la tormenta. Una industria que vive de la muerte is an interesting short story by Benito Pérez Galdós in which, during a cholera epidemic in Madrid, he contrasts the suggestive capacity of music and the sounds of mundane life. The author offers us interesting paradoxes barely sketching some characters, and he has the capacity to make us reflect from an episode where life makes its way after the storm. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales. Cover art design: David Rubiales.

Benito Pérez Galdós (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La sublevación de Martínez

'La sublevación de Martínez' es un cuento de Blasco Ibáñez que, con un tono irónico, describe los avatares de un humilde hombre del campo mejicano que utiliza la revolución para medrar en la vida. Iletrado, megalómano y dominado por su mujer, la escalada en el poder de Doroteo Martínez refleja la deriva de los movimientos revolucionarios tan comunes en la historia temprana de la República Mejicana. Y si la narración denuncia el caos y la arbitrariedad de las instituciones en Méjico, el retrato del protagonista y de su mujer, la temible Guadalupe, mujer de carácter que ha hecho la guerra con su marido, nos ofrece una mirada divertida pero descarnada a los protagonistas de un tiempo convulso. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales Suárez. 'La sublevación de Martínez' is a short story by Blasco Ibáñez that, with an ironic tone, describes the adventures of a humble man from the Mexican countryside who uses the revolution to get ahead in life. Illiterate, megalomaniac and dominated by his wife, Doroteo Martínez's rise to power reflects the drift of the revolutionary movements so common in the early history of the Mexican Republic. And if the author denounces the chaos and arbitrariness of Mexico's institutions, the portrait of the protagonist and his wife, the fearsome Guadalupe, a woman of character who has gone to war with her husband, offers an amusing but stark look at the protagonists of a convulsive time. Cover art design: David Rubiales Suárez.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El préstamo de la difunta

'El préstamo de la difunta' narra la historia de Rosalindo Ovejero, un arriero pobre de un valle de los Andes argentinos que, por un incidente en Salta, debe huir cruzando la Punta de Atacama hasta las minas de sal de Chile. En su camino, adquiere una deuda con una difunta, que vendrá a reclamársela apareciéndosele meses después. El relato no solo resulta interesante por lo que cuenta sino por cómo lo cuenta y por el trasfondo que dibuja, desde las tradiciones andinas, al sincretismo cultural y religioso de los protagonistas. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez nunca deja un estilo de narración realista, pero según avanza la historia va recogiendo elementos sobrenaturales que ha ido sembrando en el relato, para terminar sumergiendo al lector en las ensoñaciones del protagonista. Una historia terrorífica y divertida a la vez. Diseño de portada: David Rubiales Suárez. 'El préstamo de la difunta' tells the story of Rosalindo Ovejero, a poor muleteer from a valley in the Argentine Andes who, due to an incident in Salta, must flee across the Punta de Atacama to the salt mines of Chile. On his way, he acquires a debt with a deceased woman, who will come to claim it, appearing to him months later. The story is not only interesting for what it tells but also for how it tells it and for the background it draws, from the Andean traditions to the cultural and religious syncretism of the protagonists. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez never leaves a realistic narrative style, but as the story progresses he picks up supernatural elements that he has been sowing in the story, to end up immersing the reader in the protagonist's reverie. A terrifying and funny story at the same time. Cover art design: David Rubiales Suárez.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Author), Rafael Baena Zapatero (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Días de fantasmas

Trece modernos cuentos de terror: una mezcla escalofriante, provocadora y divertida de relato gótico, metaverso y autoficción, con el inconfundible sello de «la mejor escritora viva en inglés» (Evening Standard) Nuestras vidas digitales e hiperconectadas tienen al alcance milenios de conocimiento, pero ¿qué sabemos del mundo de los fantasmas? Nosotros hemos cambiado, pero ellos no: simplemente se han adaptado y han encontrado innovadores caminos para abordarnos. Habitan en nuestras aplicaciones informáticas y deambulan por el metaverso del mismo modo que antes se escondían en casas tenebrosas, empeñados en difuminar los límites entre la vida y la muerte y siempre a la caza de nuevas formas de comunicarse, de rondar nuestros recuerdos, de vengarse o de asumir el control de nuestra vida. Con un inigualable manejo de los códigos de la narrativa gótica y acompañadas de sus lúcidas reflexiones, Jeanette Winterson nos brinda trece modernas historias de fantasmas. Algunas son ficción, y otras pueden no serlo. La crítica ha dicho: «La mejor escritora viva en lengua inglesa». Evening Standard «Winterson dinamita categorías, vocabularios y convenciones tristes. Una escritora maravillosa». Marta Sanz, Babelia «Una novelista estupenda». Gonzalo Torné, La Lectura (El Mundo) «Cuando leo a Winterson siento con certeza que estamos en el umbral de algo nuevo, de algo bueno». Nuria Barrios «Jeanette Winterson arroja una mirada feminista a la revolución de la inteligencia artificial». Charlotte Cripps, The Independent «Winterson es convincente, está magníficamente informada y escribe en un estilo ligero y coloquial trufado de pequeños chistes [...] y referencias a la cultura popular». Patricio Pron, Babelia «Una novelista estupenda». Gonzalo Torné, La Lectura (El Mundo) «Siempre apasionada y provocadora». New Statesman

Jeanette Winterson (Author), Elsa Veiga (Narrator)

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Space Chase

Not everything they told you is true… …because it was my job to ensure you never knew the whole truth. If the American people understood what really happened, the U.S. government feared life would have irrevocably changed for the worse. In Space Chase, the premier installment of The Palmdale Files, former agent Harold Anderson reveals the true story behind a mysterious Lockheed U-2 'Dragon Lady' crash in the mountains of Nevada and the extreme efforts the U.S. government went through to hide what happened. Space Chase—also known as Event 21 Zeta—is the first in a series of forgotten and buried events the author once destroyed to protect the peace and security of the United States—events the government would rather hide forever. Never heard of Palmdale? The author isn't surprised, and believes you never will outside of these short stories. The Palmdale Files share highlights from Harold Anderson's U.S. Air Force career, where he worked to defend the nation and the world from paranoid hysteria about unexplained phenomena and threats from above.

Harold Anderson, Tom Lyons (Author), Sean Walpole (Narrator)

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The Taking Of Teeth

Forced by accusations of fould play to exhume the body of a recently deceased man, a young detective finds something far worse than he expected. A collapsed jaw, tattered lips and leaking gums, an empty black cavern where once once the mouth had been, evidence that someone had attacked the body with pliers and stolen all of the teeth. In the Taking of Teeth Occult detective Erasmus Crane faces another terrifying case. and a race against time to prevent a murder. A case which will bring him face to face not only with a crazed mad man, but with the darker older forces that drive him.

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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