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Ein schwuler Highschool-Footballtrainer zu sein, ist nicht einfach, besonders in einer Kleinstadt. Fünf Jahre lang hat Justin seine Sexualität verdrängt, um den Job zu behalten, den er liebt. Seine einzige ernsthafte Versuchung ist der Vater seines Star-Running Backs. Zwischen den beiden Männern fliegen die Funken, und an einem Freitagabend nach einem siegreichen Spiel kann Justin einfach nicht Nein sagen.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society.An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling – when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.‘An Old Woman and Her Cat’ brilliantly combines Doris Lessing’s unforgiving examination of our society – and those it cannot accommodate and ulitmately fails – with a wonderful portrait of her favourite animal – the cat.This story also appears in the collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mrs Lancaster doesn’t believe in ghosts. She moves her family into a house that has been derelict for years, unconcerned about the story of the young boy who lived there and starved to death. But her own young son is fascinated by his new friend that lives in the attic all alone…