Books tagged: pathos

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Gibbous Moon    by Mick Bannister
Price: $4.00 USD. 42820 words. Published on July 4, 2010. .

Michael is a teenager with a thirst for life, dying to learn as his grandfather is learning to die. Grandfather is dying a slow, painful death. Michael's best friend succumbs to anorexia. Father is an alcoholic. Aunty Joan suffers from Down's Syndrome but this doesn't seem to have impaired her sexual appetite. Michael falls in love with a German exchange student. Is it going to end in tears?
Three Stories About Eccentricity    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 11120 words. Published on August 9, 2010. .

Three stories with three memorably unbalanced narrators. Meet Brose, a professional legal entity for hire, who suddenly finds his lucrative anonymity threatened when a friend buys an RPG for him on Avenue C and 13th Street. Then there's Ophelia, whose fetish is the NFL, and finally you won't forget Ray, whose politically-incorrect father's in the hospital for standing up for his black employees.
Worry Lines    by Bob Wakulich
Price: $4.99 USD. 33730 words. Published by Newave Publishers  on February 28, 2011. .

WORRY LINES is a collection of essays, satires, and commentaries about everything from banks to hemmorhoid surgery. Sometimes humourous and sometimes thoughtful, many of the pieces have appeared over the years in publications as diverse as The Canadian Journal of Contemporary Literary Stuff and Reader's Digest over the past thirty years.
Storage Space: A collection of contemporary poetry    by Darren Stein
Price: Free! 6780 words. Published on March 6, 2011. .

Darren Stein worked in the townships and squatter camps around Johannesburg and Soweto from 1992-1996. His fields included adult literacy, voter education and community policing. His poetry deals with the emotional turmoil of his years in the townships, the psychological toll that this took upon him, and his subsequent immigration to Australia. His salvation is the joy of parenthood and marriage.
Its an Extraordinary Life - Don't Miss It    by Randall Broad
Price: $9.99 USD. 39140 words. Published on March 17, 2011. .

“Live Each Day As If You Have Cancer” is an Unforgettable Message. Randy Broad was diagnosed with Stage 3 Lung Cancer. After he got over the initial shock and fear this knowledge caused him, he decided that rather than fight his cancer, he would choose to live with it. He also accepted his cancer and decided not only that it would not stop him from living, but he would live extraordinarily.
After the Rains & Other Stories    by Kerry Ashwin
Price: $1.99 USD. 57980 words. Published on June 3, 2011. .

This collection leads the reader on a scintillating roller coaster ride of emotions, with a generous serving of laughter, a hint of pepper and spices, and a back taste of deception. With distinctive and captivating voices, the stories give layers of wit and wisdom, and can be enjoyed on their own, or with company.
Love In A Time Of Innocence    by Eleanor Jaye
Price: $1.99 USD. 51310 words. Published by Hank10 Publishing  on October 1, 2011. .

Love makes the world go round. "LOVE In A Time Of Innocence" chronicles all the emotions of love -- Fleeting -- Illicit -- Enduring. The fascinating story weaves through the lives of “ordinary” folk who explore and experience the mysteries of love in its many facets.
Dancers of Epano    by Wynn Parks
Price: $1.99 USD. 6860 words. Published on February 9, 2012. .

To trap an elusive partisan leader,foreign troops lay siege to Epano,his home village.An Englishman in Epano,Reginald Jordon,plots to escape---with his secret lover---from the village's desperate and bloody defense.When the partisan dies,trying to relieve Epano,the ex-pat imagines that he can stay uninvolved as his lover,and all,dance themselves,and their children off the sea-cliffs behind Epano.
The Boys from the Bush    by Ken Baker
Price: $3.99 USD. 85390 words. Published on March 11, 2012. .

The exploits of four friends growing up in post-war Shepherds Bush: pre-TV and computer games yet boredom never existed. Schemes were hatched in "H.Q." - a perilous bombed-out house where only bare rafters remained. David, our storyteller - tales usually involving dead bodies. Reggie, the best sportsman. Joey, asthmatic but immaculate - cherry-blossomed shoes, brylcreemed hair. Ken, the narrator.