Humor
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

On the last Saturday in February, Nell took the Greyhound bus up to Stiles. It was already the afternoon: Tig and Oona had decided that Nell shouldn’t try to spend ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK You thought everybody in America had a car and a gun; your uncles and aunts and cousins thought so, too. Right after you won the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:David Guterson

* * * Paul, in the morning, put the piranhas in the hot tub. They died immediately; he left them there. He told Ken about it. They skipped school in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-29 | Author:Adam Haslett

Table of Contents Book design by Gretchen Achilles
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Steven Millhauser

Snowmen One sunny morning I woke and pushed aside a corner of the blinds. Above the frosted, sun-dazzled bottom of the glass I saw a brilliant blue sky, divided into ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-08-13 | Author:Russell, Karen [Russell, Karen]

Finally, we have reached the bluffs. From up here, we can see the midway point, the alkali desert of the Great Sink. It’s a tough landmark to celebrate. The Great ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Robin Black

When Brooke returned just before dinner, she was as unruffled as her bedroom had been. All but her hair, which was a mess. She disappeared upstairs for a few minutes, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-11 | Author:Dave Eggers

YOUR MOTHER AND I I TOLD YOU about that, didn’t I? About when your mother and I moved the world to solar energy and windpower, to hydro, all that? I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Loory, Ben [Loory, Ben]

THE MARTIAN A MAN AND A WOMAN GO TO VISIT A FAMOUS ASTRONAUT. What was it like on the moon? says the man. Did you see any Martians? says his ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Anton Chekhov & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

VII Now, as I write these lines, my hand is restrained by a fear nurtured in me since childhood—of appearing sentimental and ridiculous; when I would like to caress and ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-07-03 | Author:Truman Capote

FOR TWO DAYS FOLLOWING OREILLY’S arrest Sylvia did not leave her room: sun on the window, then dark. By the third day she had run out of cigarettes, so she ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Junot Diaz

FROM THE TOP OF WESTMINSTER, our main strip, you could see the thinnest sliver of ocean cresting the horizon to the east. My father had been shown that sight—the management ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Anton Chekhov & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

A monk dressed in black, with gray hair and black eyebrows, his arms crossed on his chest, raced past … His bare feet did not touch the ground. He was ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Julian Barnes

Marriage Lines THE TWIN OTTER was only half-full as they took off from Glasgow: a few islanders returning from the mainland, plus some early-season weekenders with hiking boots and rucksacks. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Ha Jin

To my relief, my boss gladly allowed me another afternoon off, saying his daughter had graduated from Barnard College, so he liked the idea that I would accompany my former ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )