The first two stories, "Bragg and Minna" and "A Gift of Mercy" both detail the marriage of a homosexual (or perhaps bisexual) man named Bragg and his wife Minna. In "Bragg and Minna", the two have a child (though Bragg is opposed to the idea), and it is born with six digits on each extremity and mental disabilities. Minna, after having left Bragg and moving to Australia in search of a family to take care of their child, dies at a very young age, and Bragg travels across the Pacific Ocean to pick up her ashes and then spreads across the lands of the Ku-ring-gai (an indigenous people native to Australia).
"A Gift of Mercy: details how the couple met. Minna, working in a diner on Queen Street, saw Bragg walk into the diner in which she worked and is refused use of the telephone by the propitiator of the diner. Minna follows Bragg out of the diner and introduces herself. The two move from Queen Street, a decision made by Bragg who wanted to remove Minna from the influences of the area, but Minna still frequents the area and one evening brings a homeless woman home. Bragg is furious and eventually throws the woman out. Though the couple had been sleeping in separate beds at this point in their marriage, after Bragg returns the homeless lady to her dwelling on Queen Street, he brings home a man he picked up at a bar.
In the story "Foxes", a Professor Glandenning, who is a reclusive communications expert who visits the Royal Ontario Museum to examine some masks acquired from Japan which were used in an ancient play and depicted the transformation of fox into a human. The professor actually tries the masks on and on his way out, one of the employees offers him polite goodbye, which Glandenning practically ignores. On his way out, the employee asks one of her fellow employees if she smells something, to which she replies “dog”, hinting that there is some sort of actual transformation taking place in Glandenning.
"The Sky" details the life of a Kafkaesque protagonist (Morrison) who throughout the day witnesses random items fall from the sky (which he calls sky bolts), whilst considering issues in his life (one such issue is the affair he believes his wife and his brother are having, which he believes is best left unchecked). Morrison, who frequently attends symphony performances and falls in love from a distance with a redheaded performer in his youth. The story goes back into Morrison’s personal narrative and details how he met his wife, who being redheaded herself reminded Morrison of the woman he loved from afar. Upon the narrative's return to the present tense, Morrison causes a scene at the symphony, then returns home and unhappy with his life, he sits on the steps of his house drinking and crying.
"Dreams" details the lives of pair of psychiatrists who are married to each other. The husband handles schizophrenics, and the wife treats autistic children. Both are working with very troubled cases throughout the narrative. The wife witnesses the death of a child who she had come to care about, and the husband has been losing sleep because he has been having nightmares about his patient killing people. At his hospital, his patient has been waking up covered in blood, but there is no source for the blood, and the husband begins losing sleep, worried that his dreams are giving his patient a medium in which to cause harm to others. After the patient dies, the doctor wakes up covered in blood, and his wife agrees to wait with her husband in the bathroom ‘until they both wake up’.
In the stories, "The Name’s the Same" and "Real Life Writes Real Bad" both tell the story of two brothers, Bud, and the first-person narrator Neil. In the first story Neil takes on a voice that seems very much to be a homage to Holden Caulfield, protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye. In it, it tells of Bud’s reluctance to work and the relationship he has with a woman named Kate. In "Real Life Writes Real Bad", Bud’s partner Kate dies of cancer, and Bud, rather than dealing with the tragedy, chooses to believe that his wife has abandoned him and refuses to believe that she has died. Bud becomes even more reclusive and ends up starving himself to near death. He spends the rest of his days in hospital care and has little or no memory or awareness of what is going on around him. The narrative tone, though still first-person, is very much different from the first story.
"Alymeyer’s Mother" tells the story of a woman who has kept her personal family history a secret. Her father had left their mother after their two sons both died in a car accidents and took on a new relationship with a girl the same age as herself. She wonders to her son what would have happened to her had her father not found another girl of her age.
"Stones" tells the story of a man who volunteered for WWII, and while he had been much loved by his family before the war, when he returns home afterward he is no longer the same person, quick to violence and vulgar tones, a stark contrast to the way he had behaved before. It turns out that at the raid of Dieppe in WWII, upon seeing the futility of the battle, the patriarch of the narrative falls back, and is eventually dishonourably discharged from military service. At the end of the narrative, the patriarch who had lived apart from his family after having tried to kill his own wife, dies and the youngest son, who is the first-person narrator of the story, brings the ashes of his father to Dieppe and spreads them across stones which had neutralized the tanks and lead to a slaughter of the Canadian forces in WWII.
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety.
Tochmarc Étaíne, meaning "The Wooing of Étaín/Éadaoin", is an early text of the Irish Mythological Cycle, and also features characters from the Ulster Cycle and the Cycles of the Kings. It is partially preserved in the manuscript known as the Lebor na hUidre, and completely preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan, written in language believed to date to the 8th or 9th century. It tells of the lives and loves of Étaín, a beautiful mortal woman of the Ulaid, and her involvement with Aengus and Midir of the Tuatha Dé Danann. It is frequently cited as a possible source text for the Middle English Sir Orfeo. Harvard professor Jeffrey Gantz describes the text as displaying the "poetic sense of law" in Irish legal society.
Face to Face is a 1976 Swedish psychological drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List.
England, My England is a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I. Most of these versions were placed in magazines or periodicals. Ten were later selected and extensively revised by Lawrence for the England, My England volume. This was published on 24 October 1922 by Thomas Seltzer in the United States. The first United Kingdom edition was published by Martin Secker in 1924.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
The Pirate is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott, based roughly on the life of John Gow who features as Captain Cleveland. The setting is the southern tip of the main island of Shetland, towards the end of the 17th century, with 1689 as the likely date of the main incidents.
"The Mistake" is the eighth episode of the second season of House, which premiered on Fox on November 29, 2005. The episode is told in flashbacks when the hospital and Chase's career is on the line.
Chronicles of the Canongate is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh.
The Decameron is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights. Each film was an adaptation of a different piece of classical literature focusing on ribald and often irreligious themes. The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humour.
Astitva – Ek Prem Kahani was a Hindi soap opera that aired on the Zee TV channel for more than three years. The story focuses on the concept of a woman's identity through the character of Dr. Simran, who embodies patience, consistency, and suppression in a subtle way. She is a gynecologist who enters a complex situation when she marries a man ten years younger than herself. The show depicts the ensuing struggles in her life.
Life Is Elsewhere is a Czech-language novel by Milan Kundera finished in 1969. It was first published in French in 1973. Set in Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the Second World War, it tells the story of a young poet Jaromil and his mother who cling to each other as Jaromil tries to find artistic fame and advance the revolution at the expense of his most intimate relationships.
Elephant and Other Stories (1988) is the last collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver. They were the final seven stories Carver wrote before his death, and only appeared as a separate book in Great Britain. The book was published by Collins Harvill in London on August 4, 1988, two days after Carver's death.
The Grave of the Female Stranger is a famous historical oddity, local landmark and visitor's attraction in St. Paul's Cemetery of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. First published in 1859, it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates. Our Nig has since been republished in several other editions. It was long considered the first novel published by an African-American woman in North America, though that record is now contested by another manuscript found by Gates, The Bondwoman's Narrative, which may have been written a few years earlier.
Home is the tenth novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf. Set in the 1950s, Morrison's Home rewrites the narrative of the time period. The novel tells the story of 24-year-old war veteran Frank Money as he navigates America amidst his trauma from serving in the Korean War. After receiving a letter that alerts him of the danger his younger sister, Cee, has found herself in, he sets out on a journey back home to Lotus, Georgia.
She Devil is a 1957 American widescreen science fiction horror film, shot in RegalScope, from Regal Films, that was produced, written, and directed by Kurt Neumann. The film stars Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, and Albert Dekker and was theatrically released by 20th Century-Fox on a double bill with Regal's Kronos.
Sleeping Beauties is a novel by Stephen King and his son Owen King, released on September 26, 2017. The book was first mentioned during a promotional appearance on the CBC radio program q. Of the novel, Stephen King stated, "Owen brought me this dynamite idea and I've collaborated a couple of times with Joe. I'm not going to say what the idea is because it's too good."
About Endlessness is a 2019 Swedish drama film directed by Roy Andersson. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. At the Venice Film Festival, the film won the Silver Lion for Best Direction.
Ice Cream is the second collection of short stories written by English author Helen Dunmore and published in 2000 by Viking Press and in the United States by Grove Press in 2003.
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