Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...

Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fau...

Curt, a depressed student is at the end of his school year in university. As he gets ready to leave ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revoluti...

In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide...

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in re...

In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, Will...

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...

When a circus trio have a particularly disastrous show, Mandy the Acrobat must decide whether to run...

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends wh...