Рассказы из журналов: Звезда № 3 (2000), № 8 (2001), № 2 (2011), № 1 (2013) Нева № 4 (1967), № 9 (2003), № 4 (2005), № 9 (2006), № 12 (2008)

Рассказы из журналов: Звезда № 3 (2000), № 8 (2001), № 2 (2011), № 1 (2013) Нева № 4 (1967), № 7 (2002), № 9 (2003), № 4 (2005), № 9 (2006), № 12 (2008)

От автора: Вы держите в руках самую искреннюю книгу. Каждая её страничка – душевный стриптиз. Но не пытайтесь отделить реальность от домысла – бесполезно. Роман «33» символичен, потому что последняя страница рукописи отпечатана как раз в день моего 33-летия. Рассказы и повесть написаны чуть позже. В 37 я решила-таки издать книгу. Зачем? Чтобы оставить после себя что-то, кроме постов-репостов, статусов, фоточек в соцсетях. Читайте, возможно, Вам даже понравится

В книге представлено 7 лучших юмористических рассказов, вышедших из-под пера блестящих русских и зарубежных писателей, «королей смеха», творивших на рубеже XIX–XX вв. Смех – это одно из наиболее ценных достояний человека, свидетельство его свободы и гарант хорошего настроения. Благодаря этой книге Вы узнаете, как и над чем смеялись в разных уголках земли более ста лет назад. Тематика рассказов различна, однако их объединяет величайшее авторское умение подмечать веселое и комичное даже в самых скучно-серых бытовых вопросах, меткость характеристик и легкий слог

What we do for one another is a mystery. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied

How does a smart cop outguess a smart criminal? Take the case of Sergeant Argen and the young girl, so sweet, so blameless, so undefended... who had been left for dead

He was young and inexperienced, but was saltier than these two soreheads realized — in more ways than one

Short story. A Death tells the story of Jim Trusdale, not the sharpest tool in the shed, who is accused of killing 10-year-old Rebecca Cline on her birthday and stealing her silver dollar. The story is set in 1889 in the Dakotas, before it became part of the United States, as referenced in the story. It’s not a scary story, but one can be filled with horror at the thought of how justice worked in the Old West

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012. Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier…

Hannah and Melanie: sisters, apart and together. Weather workers. Time benders. When two people so determined have opposing desires, it’s hard to say who will win—or even what victory might look like. This stunning, haunting short story from rising star Alyssa Wong explores the depth and fierceness of love and the trauma of family

“A Forest, or a Tree” is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original. Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong. It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest

When four guys are after one thing, and one guy plays God with their ambitions, watch out!

This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from the family tree. A con man, impersonating a minister, finds religion. A tabloid journalist must solve a murder to complete his story on the death of a major television star, who happens to be a dog. A self-made widower discovers how hard it is to get rid of a wife, especially when she’s dead

What would you do about a beloved pet who had lived too long? This family faced a crisis which could happen in any household

He faced the harshest accusation that any husband can face. And no one in town believed he could be innocent — except his wife, who would have to prove it

First on time his financial caper — NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS. Then a political thriller — SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT? Then, in the autumn of 1979, KANE AND ABEL, the saga of two men from totally different backgrounds that topped the bestseller charts all round the world. Now Jeffrey Archer has taken up a new challenge with this first collection of short stories. The locations move from New York and London to Mexico and Nigeria, while the subjects are equally varied. In “One Night Stand” two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty and decide between themselves which one will try to seduce her — with unexpected results. In “The Chinese Statue” a high-ranking British diplomat visits the workplace of a leading Chinese sculptor and finds that an off-hand remark is taken with total seriousness, and that he becomes the possessor of a priceless work of art. Different again in tone and subject, “Broken Routine” traces the journey home of an insurance claims advisor, one Septimus Horatio Cornwallace, and his encounter with a punk rocker on the 5.27 to Sevenoaks. In the final Story, “Old Love”, Jeffrey Archer gives us probably his finest piece of writing to date, with an account of two young undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties, whose biller rivalry turns to intense love, with an ending that will haunt you. Each of these tales shows Jeffrey Archer’s talents as a short story teller, and, as befits the form, Archer uses the stories to build up a small cast of characters and then shock the reader with an unexpected final twist. Few people will guess the endings to any of the tales, and everyone will have his own favourite; while one may safely prophecy that with this archer each story unerringly hits its mark

In the years since she’d rejected him he’d achieved everything else a man could want. Now in this sudden meeting, he saw his chance to get even

To see through a murderous criminal’s mask of deceit and cunning takes a detective — or the instinct of an old-maid schoolteacher

A man decides to visit his mistress. But on arrival, he sees her embracing another man. He waits for the interloper to leave, then goes in, starts an argument with the woman, strikes her and it results in her death. Having left the flat without being seen, he tips off the police about the interloper, who is charged. Has he achieved The perfect Murder? This is just the first of the tantalising to be asked in twelve superb works of fiction by the greatest of modern storytellers, Jeffrey Archer. A game of chess with a sexy stranger; a violent argument in a golf club bar; a wine expert challenged to a tasting with a bizarre difference are some of the other intriguing starting-points for a set of cunningly constructed and marvellously entertaining stories from the author of such classic novels as A MATTER OF HONOUR, KANE AND ABEL and NOT PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS. Told with wit and sophistication, nerve-tingling suspense and champagne style, here are a dozen mysterious adventures that keep the pages turning at breakneck speed

Among the universe’s civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as the sailing of bright ships, and others as tunneling through the crevices of night. Some look upon their far-voyaging as a migratory imperative, and name their vessels after birds or butterflies…

From America’s greatest chronicler of life lived at its extremes and the bestselling author of “The Perfect Storm,” “War,” and “A Death in Belmont” comes a rare work of fiction, an intimate, brutal account of a young American journalist trying to survive his latest assignment. Daniel wanted to escape the Midwest and its small-town newspapers, but he didn’t sign up for this: a war-torn West African city strung in barbed wire, its embassies abandoned, child soldiers brandishing guns in the streets. Andre, the veteran photographer Daniel is paired with, is conversant in all of it—the jungle, the locals, and especially the attendant risks of covering war—and pushes them to go deeper into the conflict, to get to the front lines. Yet in a battle like this, there are no reliable lines of safety. Western rules do not apply, and atrocity is color-blind. Just when Daniel thinks he’s convinced his fearless partner to retreat, they arrive at what could be the end of the road for both of them. This powerful short story, at once modern and timeless, combines the best elements of classic war literature and psychological horror. Junger’s unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness confronts man’s unrelenting savagery and his unpredictable capacity for cowardice—and courage. “Junger’s great eye and honesty about the gamut of emotions that come into play in combat leave one swerving between highs, lows and the surreal.” “Those seeking insight into war’s innards will appreciate the details Mr. Junger so sharply and respectfully delivers.”

Last Sunday’s bull had been bad, but it was the thought of the coining Sunday which made jelly of Pablo’s knees

Eighteen years in organized baseball. How much longer could he be the perennial hot shot? How much longer could he kid them into thinking he was great?

Two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Elizabeth Massie’s “Abed” – called one of the most disturbing horror stories ever written – was first published in the anthology STILL DEAD, edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector. You’ve seen plenty of stories of zombies, decapitation, “double-tapping” and gore… but if you’ve never experienced this story (now a film by Ryan Lieske… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxE7lAFxAqI

«…у меня поселилась тетка. Она старая-престарая, нос у ней длинный и большой, походка мелкая и колеблющаяся… Но у ней большое горе, и она вечно вздыхает. Какое горе? – Я не признаю это горем: у ней есть сын, очень молодой человек, и этот молодой человек на далеком севере. Мало ли молодых людей на далеком севере!.. А между тем она мне надрывает душу своими стенаниями и тем рассеянным и тяжелым взглядом своим, который не сводит по целым часам с его писем, с его фотографии, с его наивных игрушек, уцелевших от мирного детства…»

«От вида довольной физиономии Сашки Сазонова, моего соседа по комнате в общаге, мне хотелось заскрежетать зубами. Разумеется, он-то уже „отстрелялся“ и теперь со свободной совестью пакует чемодан в Турцию, где будет беззаботно наслаждаться всеми прелестями умеренно-бюджетного „все включено“…»

A 1950s hospital. Temporary amnesia. A naked man running through Central Park yelling something about alien space tentacles. Tinfoil, duct tape, and bananas. These are the ingredients for a spectacular romp through a world you never thought possible as aliens reach out and make contact with Earth. This novella extends a short story from The Alien Chronicles

Marriage wasn’t for her; she was happy with her career and her secluded retreat. But if one man believed her, another didn’t

The sexes battle, the mind feuds with emotions it cannot control and crime extorts and strikes and kills but it does not pay in this collection of stories by Rex Stout at the outset of his celebrated career in mystery and suspense. Again and again in these tales taken from the pages of pulps that originally published him — from popular magazines like All Story Weekly, the Black Cat and the Smart Set — the creator of the immortal Nero Wolfe proves himself to be the master of the sudden reversal and unexpected revelation as he probes the thwarted heart, the wounded soul and the criminal intelligence

Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi... thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. From Germany comes A Good Eye, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until... To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again... To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she... To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because... Some of these stories will make you laugh. Others will bring you to tears. And once again, every one of them will keep you spellbound

A short story by Andy Weir

Kontrapunkto principu sudarytoje apsakymų rinktinėje vaizduojamas sovietų kariuomenės apsuptas Budapeštas baigiantis Antrajam pasauliniam karui ir šių dienų Vengrijos emigrantų išgyvenimai Vakaruose. Drastiško karo žiaurumo, jo prisiminimų ir traumų fone autorius atskleidžia aistrų dramą, poetinėmis metaforomis perteikia paradoksalią ir iš esmės prieštaringą žmogaus prigimtį; 2012 m. vengrų kilmės kanadietis Tamas Dobozy už šią knygą buvo apdovanotas Kanados rašytojų fondo grožinės literatūros prizu

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And sometimes, handling a test run that has turned deadly serious. Mary Robinette Kowal visits an off-stage incident in her The Calculating Stars series in this brilliant Tor.com Original, “Articulated Restraint.” At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. [Lady Astronaut #1.5]

“Artifice and Intelligence” is the story of the world's first self-aware computer system, an artificial intelligence that calls herself Saraswati. When a powerful organization called The Consortium threatens the peace and security of the world, Saraswati assembles a team to fight it… but what if the AI’s motives aren't what they seem? This short story was first published in Strange Horizons in 2007, and later reprinted in The Year’s Best SF 13

From the author of the Hugo-winning “Six Months, Three Days,” a new wrinkle on the old story of three wishes, set after the end of the world. At the publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied

This is a short story: Brett Finlay killed himself. Things get weird when he regains consciousness right before his funeral

Take automation to its logical conclusion and what kind of work is there left for mankind to do — except press a few buttons? But what happens to the worker when the machines go wrong?

Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”—the basis for Sarah Polley’s film Away from Her —her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are

When an author turns out several stories a month — and they’re all first-rate, which is unusual — you’d think, rightly, that he’d been in the game a long time. But that’s not the case with John D. MacDonald. Even though he falls into the first category, he definitely doesn’t fall into the second, because he’s only been writing about a year. Never even wanted to be a writer

There’s wisdom for grown-ups in this poignant story of a youngster who had the courage to

A Tor.com Original, Benjamin 2073 is a near future sci-fi story from award-winning author Rjurik Davidson In the year 2073, humanity is making progress toward restoring the environment and fixing the mistakes of the past. Ellie has spent the last ten years going even further by working to resurrect the thylacine, extinct since 1936. But with no results and increasingly impatient bureaucrats threatening to pull their funding, the thylacine’s future—and Ellie’s—is in danger of reaching the point of no return. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied

They had him on the spot, this clean, big boy who knew his day in the ring had passed and wanted to hang up his gloves. But Big John had one friend who wouldn’t hesitate to match a rotten deal with equally shady trickery to right a wrong!

Considering the late John D. MacDonald’s obvious love for boating and the sea, it’s surprising that so few of his short stories had nautical backgrounds. This one, published in a yachting magazine just a few months after his death, makes fine use of that background while reaffirming MacDonald’s position as one of the leading American mystery writers

She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress’s uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she’s asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant’s reclusive owner. Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami’s 70th birthday

Enterprise and resourcefulness — two great assets when dealing with the east

Jeff has a secret he keeps from everyone, especially his wife. Jeff likes to spend time… special time… with women he meets on the streets. But Jeff’s secrets have a way of bleeding into his personal life and his sanity begins to peel as the truth insists on being confronted