A dying child counts angels in her room. A teenage boy stuns doctors by recovering from a massive brain injury. A bubble of protection surrounds a man about to be hit by a car...These miraculous accounts and twenty-nine more are recorded in Miracles: 32 True Stories.
Slyly and perspectively, Carol Shields surveys the whole range of life's surprises, the quirks of chance and coincidence, the setbacks and improvisations. The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life: the housewife who transforms herself into
Fourteen audacious explorations of the fantastic, the magical and the horrific by one of SF's greatest writers. Contents: - The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories (1970) - Alien Stones (1972) - La Befana (1973) - The Hero as Werewolf (1975) - Three Fingers (1976) - The Death of Dr. Island
Naughty What can I say? I’m not a nice person. When I walk by, people call me a slut, and I’m okay with that. I believe in calling a spade a spade. I am a slut. With the holidays approaching, I miss belonging to The Last Riders. Drake’s keeping me warm, but he wants more than I can give. He wants
