Category: Urban Fiction

Eine Zweier-Medien-WG in Leipzig. Der eine, Sascha, arbeitet bei einem Stadtmagazin und ist dort für die Musikrubrik zuständig, der andere, Manni, ist Morningshow-Moderator bei einem jungen Radiosender.
Beide sind Anfang dreißig, unmarried, und sie verbindet eine Schwäche für Musik, kultige Serien aus den Siebzigern, Hörspiele und - natürlich - das schöne Geschlecht. Allerdings ist Sascha nicht gerade ein Frauenversteher, während Manni über das gewisse Etwas verfügt, das Frauen anzieht. Hals über Kopf verliebt sich Sascha eines Tages in Sarah, die ihm seinen größten Traum zu erfüllen scheint: ein Interview mit Madonna. Der Weg dorthin und zu seiner Traumfrau ist jedoch alles andere als leicht und zwingt Sascha unter anderem im Bademantel seiner Ex-Freundin über die Dächer der Stadt.

Monique is again and in complete influence. Mourning the lack of anyone she enjoyed, she turns her grieving right into a fit urge for food of lust. profiting from her lengthy awaited belief fund, Monique's unlock from criminal sparks a brand new whirlwind of her Grown lady prestige. looking a brand new dating to consider enjoyed she turns her recognition to Troy; one other undesirable boy that would end up to teach her what intercourse, funds, medicines, and quick automobiles has to provide within the streets.
Finding herself combined up in an international that chews and spits out wannabe grown girls like her, Monique has to show to her mom and dad for aid and aid as her new dependancy backs her right into a nook leaving her to behave on her suicidal recommendations or get better from all her soiled secrets and techniques and lies.

David Wagner wandert durch die Stadt, allein, manchmal in Begleitung. used to be ist die Stadt? Wie lässt sie sich beschreiben? Immer wieder stößt er auf die Trümmer der deutschen Geschichte. Wagner erzählt, wie sehr sich die Stadt in den letzten zehn Jahren verändert hat. Er macht ein Praktikum als Türsteher in der "Flittchen Bar", trifft die Füchse auf der Pfaueninsel und einen müden Bürgermeister neben einem Bärenkostüm. Er spaziert durch die Randgebiete und durch den alten Westen. Er geht die Baustellen ab und erinnert sich an Baulücken. David Wagner läuft seit zwanzig Jahren kreuz und quer durch Berlin. Er ist ein Stadtwanderer, "in Halbtrance, gepaart mit dem Willen zur illusionslosen Genauigkeit", wie die Wochenzeitung Die Zeit meinte.

Derrick Davis, CEO and manufacturer, vows to guard Angelique Arceneau from William LeBlanc, III, A.K.A. Trey. Streets are speaking yet that will not cease Angelique's dual brother Andre from stepping into at the motion. He wishes his shot on the crown, too. within the urban of Houston, this struggle makes a decision who turns into king. With Angelique stuck within the heart, will her and Andre's courting stay in tact?

Derrick and Angelique simply wish peace whereas Trey will not permit that take place. no longer with no struggle. in the meantime, will Andre's hustlers mentality solidify his seat at the throne or has he made a mistake?

Bridgette Tate, winning prosecuting lawyer, values many stuff in her lifestyles: God, her paintings as an lawyer, her non-profit paintings with a protect for abused ladies and youngsters, and Rene Anthony Davis. whereas she has an obsession for Rene, she knows that different males try to win her center. should still she decide on the profitable lawyer, her employed body¬guard, or proceed her myth of dwelling fortunately ever after with Rene?

Rene is on a private venture of vengeance which can blind him to seeing the single great thing that he needs—the love and help of a very good lady. Will he abandon his mantra of “No Time for romance” and make allowance Bridgette to aid him paintings via his demons, or will he stay ruthless and cynical and deny his own wishes and desires?

the genuine that means of all started on the backside, and now "SHE" is right here! Sarah (Syren) Stewart was once born right into a global of chaos, yet with will and resolution she turned the guts of anarchy within the urban of l. a.. a narrative that travels throughout the process her lifestyles from her amorous affairs to a few of the main vicious battles that one lady has ever engaged into. From crooked politicians and police officers, rival gang participants, eastern mafia, all the way down to the main trivial conflict Syren might be in.
No one is secure, while the forty five is loaded or the blade that's moment nature to her palms. Bloodshed and violence will disguise the streets signaling that no-one is secure. excessive octane gun battles, motor vehicle chases, seduction at it is best will preserve you short of extra. Syren is the single legal that you'd wish while your in a struggle on your existence, but additionally the single one that will convey you so you might don't have anything but if the stakes are excessive you usually have extra.
Always comprehend your atmosphere, yet consistently be aware of that its now not a nasty factor to have a pleasant piece of metal cocked, locked, and able to fireplace.
Laugh, cry, and suppose the strength as you're taking the journey of your existence in the depths of Honor, demise, and a SH*T load of Vengeance.
Clip up, take the trip and switch in your Syren's...

Hartmut El Kurdis Geschichten und Kolumnen sind komische, erfrischend wütende, mitunter selbstironisch-sentimentale Exegesen des alltäglichen deutschen Irrsinns. Sei es in einem Kommentar zur Beschneidungsdebatte, in einem Dankesstoßgebet zum angekündigten Ruhestand des Kinderlieder-Satans Rolf Zuckowski oder in einer satirischen Meditation über Fitnesswürste mit rechtsdrehender Milchsäure - immer wird das Allgemeine mit dem Privaten und Persönlichen verwoben.

during this choice of thirty-four sketches, the writer captures the intense variety of individuals, stories, locations and emotions that's big apple urban -- town at the back of the glamorous facade of new york, inhabited via those who take note whilst this was once "a nice titanic terrific city and so they have been younger in its streets."

These sketches, many in accordance with genuine incidents, take as their topic the "smaller dramas" of mankind, the opportunity encounters and random episodes that tell one's existence; usually twisting without notice, strangely, on the finish, they impart powerful emotions in little space.  utilizing all of latest York as his extensive canvas, Pete Hamill recreates the baffling array of human feelings, from disappointment and nostalgia to domestic and love, with affection, grace and wry understanding.

«Cè un giorno dellanno, tutti gli anni, in cui ogni cosa è illuminata proprio della luce giusta, e tutto sembra in armonia con il mondo. È il giorno in cui so con certezza di aver riempito lultima casellina del piano editoriale dei prossimi dodici mesi. Questo progetto mi allunga l. a. vita, è il mio progetto in line with lanno che viene, e mi piace da impazzire».«Con il lavoro che ho scelto di fare, mi aspettavo che l. a. mia vita sarebbe stata diversa. Mi immaginavo lunghe giornate a leggere manoscritti che avrebbero cambiato l. a. storia della letteratura, conversazioni rivoluzionarie in fumose bettole del centro storico con scrittori leggendari, illuminanti riunioni di redazione che sarebbero proseguite con memorabili serate in trattoria. Avevo creduto di poter ripetere facilmente lesperienza del New Yorker di William Shawn, della Shakespeare & corporation di Sylvia seashore, della urban lighting di Ferlinghetti, dellEinaudi di Vittorini-Calvino-Pavese. Avevo dimenticato che leditore non è solo un appassionato di libri, un animatore culturale, ma è fondamentalmente un imprenditore, con tanto di partita iva, obblighi fiscali e bilanci depositati».

cemetery omit you recounts the 1st 12 months or so of a Pakistani illegal's stories in Hong Kong. The paintings starts via detailing the boy-man's middle-class stories in Pakistan, ahead of he is all-but-forced to escape where after taking pictures a guy severally point-blank within the identify of kinfolk honour. His lifestyles in Hong Kong starts as a lifetime of poverty, residing at the streets. below a yr later he is deciding to buy rounds of beverages at the height, using round in deepest vehicles, spending hundreds of thousands of bucks on sneakers, and making commonplace brief journeys to mainland China.
Saa Ji, a reputation followed by way of a number of Indian Subcontinent illegals and refugees in Hong Kong, tells not just his personal tale, but in addition the untold tale of such a lot of peripheral figures in Hong Kong, figures forced into unimaginably tricky underworld networks—and now not as a result of moral unsoundness or suspectness. as an alternative, those ceaselessly marginalized and institutionally determined figures haven't any different strategies. Saa Ji speaks of alterity in Hong Kong, of the otherness all of us forget about.