Kurzgeschichten

Valley of FaithValley of Faith brings you five short stories of people who find love and compassion in other people around them. You'll meet characters who somehow manage to find and realize their faith in God by chance, by natural instinct or by dealing with incidents, events or circumstances.There is a group of hobos, a homeless family, two young men who had been friends since childhood, a group of school-aged children who live in a small community near a river, and a boy who is worried about his grandfather and writes a letter to God on his behalf. All bring to life stories of their own experiences and faith... no matter how brief, of what nature, or how deep the conviction.

Autor:innen schreiben für die Ukraine: Unter dem Hashtag "Miteinanda für die Ukraine" setzten Dutzende von Autor:innen ein solidarisches Zeichen und griffen zur Schreibfeder. Ob romantisch, sinnlich, leidenschaftlich, liebevoll, fantastisch oder nachdenklich, alle Kurzgeschichten haben eins gemeinsam: Sie haben ein Happy End und erzählen von Liebe, Hoffnung, Glück und Neuanfängen.Mit dem Kauf der Benefizanthologie "Friedenszeit" unterstützen Sie die gemeinsame Spendenaktion "Wir für Ukraine" der "Caritas" und der "Kleinen Zeitung". Sämtliche Autor:innen sowie der Verlag verzichten auf ihr Honorar und ihre Bezahlung. Alle Einnahmen kommen der Spendenaktion zugute.

In Lori Ostlund s debut collection people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind.In prose highlighted by both satire and poignant observation, Ostlund offers characters that represent a different sort of everyman--men and women who poke fun at ideological rigidity while holding fast to good grammar and manners, people seeking connections in a world that seems increasingly foreign. In Upon Completion of Baldness a young woman shaves her head for a part in a movie in Hong Kong that will help her escape life with her lover in Albuquerque. The precocious narrator of All Boy finds comfort when he is locked in a closet by a babysitter. In Dr. Deneau s Punishment a math teacher leaving New York for Minnesota as a means of punishing himself engages in an unsettling method of discipline. A lesbian couple whose relationship is disintegrating flees to the Moroccan desert in The Children beneath the Seat. And in Idyllic Little Bali a group of Americans gathers around a pool in Java to discuss their brushes with fame and ends up witnessing a man s fatal flight from his wife.In the eleven stories in The Bigness of the World we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away."