Snippets Some Stories Short

“Snippets- some stories short” is a captivating jumble of simple real-like incidents that often escape our attention. The author has delicately drawn out such instances and fictionalized them with a fluidity that keeps the reader absorbed and instinctively flipping pages from one story to the other. Each story has a different hue, flavor and context wherein those interested in variety would find engrossing variegated mix wrapped in one cover. Yet the underlying theme is constant and about human sensibilities, frailty, subtle emotions, common fears, superstitions, faith, flaws and fragility. One may get confronted with commonplace happenings that would otherwise appear innocuous but could be speaking of embedded hierarchies, prejudices and stereotypes that we often take for granted. Then, certain unbelieving instances could catch one unawares that would revive your faith in some supreme power beyond. It makes us understand how experiences mould us in time. Simultaneously, making us realize how everything at the macro level merges into oneness of being - be it be different races of mankind, different religions and castes in India, different colours of a rainbow and so on; all artificial and mortal differences eventually even out. The language used encapsulates the essence of the moment engaging the reader in flow of its simplicity and content. This short story collection specially suits fiction lovers with busy schedules and younger multitasking generation with constricting attention span. A happy reading and a tête-à-tête with latent realities of life.

A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.

"Looking for financial freedom? A perfect plan to drop 25 pounds overnight? How about one simple step to have someone secretly fall in love with you? Sorry... not here, not today. There's already enough of those types of works out there (all with "the" master plan), that's why you won't find that here...." So then, what is this book about? Simply told, Snippets Of A Life is a collection of illustrated short stories, prose and reflections as told by Michael Raymond, an Operations Engineer and retired sailor from the Pacific Northwest. With tales ranging from humorous to the slightly macabre he offers up for the reader different events that, although distinctive to his life, at one time or another could relate in some form or fashion to all our lives. In sharing these stories, the author provides a different perspective of moments we all share, in the hopes that you can take time to relax and not worry so much about "where life is taking you, or why you weren't given instructions and a map at the start line...." Oh, and if you really are interested in fixing those little problems mentioned earlier, the author does offer up an easy solution for all three (it is however, inside the book, so you'll have to splurge a little).

Help little ones learn to look but not touch in this third story in the adorable Wee Beasties series from New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman. Touchy the Octopus LOVES to touch the things he loves. But sometimes, he touches everything. WAIT! Can you show Touchy how to look but not touch? Wee Beasties is a board book series from New York Times bestselling author, Ame Dyckman, featuring silly animals doing the things they love just a little TOO much.

Six short stories from the heart.

In this collection of 30 short stories the lives of men, women, spiritual beings, and a couple of animals are examined.Some of the stories are wry observations of modern society while others examine human foibles.Though there are elements of tragedy, in the end the stories celebrate the human condition.The tale of Sid, is a modern comedy that casts an eye at the wonders of the gender debate and some of the unforeseen consequences.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.