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ABOUT THE BOOK40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe.Why novelettes? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out.REVIEWJacob Appel, deeper and creepier.Jacob Appel dares to shock his readers once again. If you are looking for solutions, stop here. The author of Vicarious Pleasures doesn't answer, but he asked the most important questions.Can you image a more trivial situation than a naïve girl who spends her saturday night babysitting the little sister of the boy she is in love with? Appel, as usual, begins from such a homely picture to show how weak our certainties are, how creep our lives can become, how thin is the line between sanity and insanity. Take a last look at your dream, they are crashing down like your image in a broken mirror. ABOUT THE AUTHORJacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia. He has published short fiction in more than one hundred literary journals. His short story, Shell Game With Organs, won the Boston Review Short Fiction Contest in 1998. Another story, Enoch Arden's One Night Stands, won first prize in the New Millennium Writings competition in 2004. A third story, The Ataturk of the Outer Boroughs, won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom short story competition. His story about two census takers, Counting, was short listed for the O. Henry Award in 2001. Other stories received "special mention" for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2007. Other Appel's 40k are "Fallout" and “The Responsible Neighbor”.ABOUT THE PUBLISHER40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into two categories: Essays and Stories. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world.