Short Story Press presents 'Road to Justice', by Kim Cruea.
- A young girl's family is murdered, leaving her an instant orphan.
- When her aunt realizes the child's trauma had left her mute, she decides the trouble isn't worth the financial incentive.
- Justice is placed into a foster home on a beautiful Texas ranch where she meets Bruce, the ranch hand, and Cammy, the housekeeper/nanny.
- Her passion for the horses and ranch hand's dog begins to tear down the walls she'd been stuck with since the tragedy.
- The bond between Justice and Bruce grows.
- The bond between Justice and Cameron grows.
- A passion is ignited between Cammy and Bruce.
- When a family decides to adopt the girl, after months of being at the ranch, Justice runs away.
- Cameron and Bruce search for the child in the downpour and return with her to the ranch only to learn the adoptive parents no longer want Justice. Neither does the foster family.
- When the social worker prepares to remove the child from the ranch, Justice pleads them not to go. After months of not speaking, the passion in Bruce's heart ignites, and he confesses his love for both Cameron and the young girl.
- With love confessed, Cameron marries Bruce, and they adopt Justice.
Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
Julia has been let go from her job of 20 years, as a ground water geologist in Eastern Washington and must find a new way to support herself. She decides to pack up her belongings and return to her family's cottage on Pine Island. There she hopes to find a new meaning to her life, while living in the peaceful and serene setting that she always experienced in the northern woods of Canada.
She is surprised to discover that her old buddy, Andrew, still spends every summer across the river on Brown's Island, where he spent his youth with his family. The two had always spent their childhoods playing, fishing and enjoying the tranquility of island life as children. Once again, they share time enjoying the love of the great north.
Julia had left for college over two decades ago, to make a life for herself working on the plutonium ground water cleanup project left from the atomic bomb processing, at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Richland, Washington. There she had made a life for herself; not returning to the island she loved so much. Destiny forced her to reevaluate her life and priorities encompassing many changes in attitudes and lifestyle.
Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
'On The Way to New York' is the story of a workplace romance that takes more than seven years to develop. Ella is an ambitious, advertising executive vying for a promotion to an office in New York City, effectively escaping Cleveland, Ohio. Only one man stands in the way of her realizing her dreams.
Cameron, also ambitious to make it in New York City, is the immature competition Ella must surpass to earn the promotion. With the help of her wily assistant Marie, Ella is able to land a meeting with a representative of an extremely large account for her firm. Success with this potential client could make her career and secure her promotion to New York.
Cameron, a habitual jokester and charmer, weasels his way into Ella's big meeting. He claims he only wants to help her, but she finds that hard to believe. Out of the blue, Ella and Cameron click in a way they never anticipated. A building attraction and mutual respect is found to exist and the sky is their limit. After landing the firm's largest single account they are offered the opportunities of their lifetimes.
Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
In this story, you will experience a wide range of emotions while applying to the consistent theme of maintaining a positive outlook even in times of negativity and disarray. The story takes the reader and main character through a story that exemplifies:
● The relatable occurrence of sadness that all beings have experienced
● The importance of keeping a positive outlook in order to pull yourself out of the depths of sadness
● The implication to not cling or hold on to the past and look towards the future
● The ideology that serving and giving yourself brings happiness
● The power of a relationship and bond between animal and man
● The heavy weight of expectations that comes from friends and family that can keep people from following their dreams
● Beautifies family relationships and the need for understanding as a person who is an introvert and desires to be alone
● The ideology that action is important, and to take action immediately
● The Buddhist ideology of having the option to be running from darkness to brightness or from darkness to more darkness - you decide.
● The concept that all things rise, stay for some time, then pass away indicating there is no need to hate something viewed as negative or even love and attach oneself to something positive
● A story that shows there is happiness where you look for it, and sadness if you desire it.
All the ideas portrayed in the story of Peter are to help the world today find the most out of the life they live. To realize they can give themselves if they feel that they don’t have enough and there is someone who needs it more than you know. It indicates to not wallow in sadness, even if it is all you have. It shows to take action and do good as this will be the best thing to heal you from your darkness. Stay bright!
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'Prowler' is a marriage of supernatural horror and psychological thriller, a story about how our personal issues can manifest in strange and unnerving ways.
• Our protagonist, Victoria, is a successful businesswoman.
• She has a history of mental illness, but that's behind her now, despite what her distant husband might say.
• What starts out as a normal day at the office is turned upside down by the appearance of a mysterious figure that only Victoria can see.
• It soon becomes clear that this being, whatever it is, is following her.
• As Victoria tries to make the creature go away, her demons begin to creep up on her again.
Surrounded by people who don't believe her and struggling to keep herself together, can Victoria figure out who this being is before her sanity deteriorates?
About The Writer
Isabella Bailey is a senior at New York University, where she studies film and television. A lifelong storyteller, she began to write when she was in the first grade, and has been honing her craft ever since. She was first published in Excellence, a 2006 poetry compilation, and her writing has since appeared in places such as Baedeker Travel Magazine, 401kWire.com, MFWire.com, and Mindfray.com. Her television screenplays were finalists in both the 2017 and 2019 Fusion Film Festivals, and is writing a novel in her spare time. She hopes to continue to professionally pursue narrative storytelling, and is thrilled to share her work here.
Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.
This is an imaginary drama in verse in which US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pleads with President George Bush Jr to be allowed to chronicle the glorious presidency of Mr Bush after his second inauguration. Of course, he is allowed to do so. Thus emerges a gentle satire which is also a social commentary of our time, replete with a large cast which includes Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, the Ghost of Saddam Hussain, and others, not to mention a sombre 'Chorus of the Homeless' providing a rational commentary throughout. An echo of Greek tragedies of yore.
Clarence Thomas, the pious altar boy, seemed the right person for this 'heavenly' task of penning a Gospel. The U.S. Supreme Court is a comfortable place, but not necessarily a redemptive place that Thomas craves.
As a footnote, the new presidency of Joseph Biden seems a proper moment to re-visit the initiation of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. Mr Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time and denied any corroborating witnesses to Prof. Anita Hill who had accused Thomas of Sexual misconduct, thereby assuring Thomas's nomination. One might say that this act of Senator Biden's set the precedent for the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, after Kavanaugh had also been accused of sexual misconduct.
Algo que siempre ha caracterizado a los narcotraficantes es el modo en el que llevan la droga a Estados Unidos, con ideas ingeniosas que parecen salidas de una mente maestra.
Otro de los atributos es el de esconder el dinero, armas y droga, las llamadas caletas. De ello hablamos en este libro. Ya es mucha la literatura que llena las librerías que habla del Patrón y su cartel y la huella que dejó en Colombia.
Libros escritos por la esposa, la amante, el hijo, el sicario, y tantos otros implicados en este tema, todos dicen más o menos lo mismo, la vida del hombre, sus crímenes, algunos, engrandecidos para desatar el morbo de los lectores y otras reales que muestran la crueldad del capo.
En algún capítulo, entre líneas han mostrado las caletas del Patrón, pero no dedican la atención que merece. Por ello se publica este libro, donde se habla de las caletas del Patrón.
Se denomina caleta a aquellos escondites donde los narcos esconden sus valores, armas, droga, dinero, puestos a simple vista de todos, pero escondidos con sofisticados sistemas.
A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989).
Includes a conversation with playwright Jeanne Sakata and four of the attorneys from the Korematsu v. United States case: Lori Bannai, Peter Irons, Dale Minami and Don Tamaki.
For Us All is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in January 2021.
Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Edward Asner as John J. McCloy
Brooke Ishibashi as Karen Korematsu
Tess Lina as Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Times Analyst, Clerk
Mike McShane as Lt. General John L. DeWitt, CBS News Anchor, ABC News Anchor, NBC Reporter
Derek Mio as Dale Minami
Joy Osmanski as Lorraine (Lori) Bannai, Maya
Jeanne Sakata as Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
André Sogliuzzo as Edward Ennis, Victor Stone, NY Times Reporter
Josh Stamberg as Peter Irons
Greg Watanabe as Fred Korematsu, Eric Yamamoto
Paul Yen as Don Tamaki
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Prepared for audio by Mark Holden and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Editor: Neil Wogenson
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner
Daniel Dafoe zählte zu den produktivsten und erfolgreichsten Autoren des 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit der Erzählung über den schiffbrüchigen „Robinson Crusoe“ bereicherte Dafoe die Literaturgeschichte. Von vielen wird aber sein Pest-Tagebuch, dass die Ereignisse in und um London, während der großen, verheerenden Pestwelle von 1665/66 schildert, für Defoes beste Arbeit gehalten. Um ungefähr ein Fünftel wurde die Bevölkerung der britischen Hauptstadt während dieser Zeit dezimiert. Die Detailfülle dieses Buch verführte selbst wohlunterrichtete Wissenschaftler dazu, in ihm eine historische Quelle für die damaligen Zustände zu sehen. Dafoe besaß im allerhöchsten Maße die Gabe, die man »Wirklichkeitsphantasie« nennen könnte, d. h. die Fähigkeit, sich in eine erdichtete und bloß vorgestellte Umwelt ganz und gar hineinzuversetzen und so völlig in ihr aufzugehen, als ob er tatsächlich darin zu leben und sich ihr anzupassen hätte.
“For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates.”
Baptista Minola has two daughters: Katherina and Bianca. Bianca is the “ideal wife” – beautiful, kind, submissive, and eager to wed. She has many suitors asking for her hand in marriage. The only thing standing in her way is her father’s promise not to let her marry before Katherina – and Katherina wants to anything but become a bride. Katherina is assertive and domineering, and unwilling to change her personality to attract a husband.
When a man named Petruchio comes to town, Katherina finally feels she has found someone she can live with – he is quick-witted like her, and doesn’t seem to take offense to her brash communication. However, as soon as they are married, Petruchio begins “taming” her by gaslighting her and undermining her at every turn and denying her necessities like food, sleep, and clothing.
This plot runs in sharp contrast to Bianca’s, who is able to woo an array of suitors after her sister is finally wed. Many men are running around and trying their best to deceive and bribe their way into Bianca’s heart, when she only has eyes for one called Lucentio.
Between the comedy of a gaggle of men running around wildly to attempt to wed Bianca and the over-the-top portrayal of Katherina’s “taming,” The Taming of the Shrew is a humorous play that offers a fascinating look at the 16th century’s views on women, marriage, and domesticity.
The Cid, written by Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), is one the greatest theater play from France (Le Cid). Recorded for the first time in English language, this Studio Cast Album Recording stars David Serero as Don Rodrigo, in his own adaptation.
