epub |eng | 2024-07-29 | Author:Shannon Bowring

REGIMEN It starts with Trudy dragging him by the elbow around the yard one evening. Clouds like spun sugar. Birds chirping and shrieking in the forsythia bush. “I’m not a ...

epub |eng | 2024-10-14 | Author:Arjun Basu [Basu, Arjun]

Chapter 21 The sun finally hits summertime strength. Dee has just felt it and she wiggles out of her shorts, takes off her top, and Val whistles. Dee slaps her, ...

epub |eng | 2024-05-17 | Author:Bart Yates [Yates, Bart]

epub |eng | | Author:Iris Mwanza

Chapter Twelve It was the third night that Grace wasn’t able to sleep. The season brought almost constant rain, but this night, the usual mild patter of raindrops suddenly became ...

epub |eng | 2024-04-09 | Author:Samuel Burr [Burr, Samuel]

* * * — Back at the Lancaster Court Hotel, Clayton felt oddly deflated, like all the air had gone from his balloon. He’d placed the envelope Nancy had given ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Ka Moll [Moll, Ka]

Chapter Nineteen Courtney switched off her bedside lamp, fluffed her pillow, and lay back in hopes of getting some sleep. She had to admit that she had been sleeping better. ...

epub |eng | 2024-06-11 | Author:Tomas Moniz [MONIZ, TOMAS]

Violet Flores Told This Story about Elias to Chino The first time your father saw you, arms chubby and legs fat like little sausages, he poked at you and said, ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Douglas Martin

19 Field Trip THEY ALL LIVED TOGETHER, a bunch of men, there at the fire department we leave school to go visit. They had to, I’m telling you, even sleep ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-02 | Author:Victor Lodato

26 Say Nothing She has a dinner party to return to, but she’s paralyzed in the hallway of her father’s house. She’s standing at the bottom of the stairs, where ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-23 | Author:Mona Black [Black, Mona]

22 ZAYNE My head has been all over the place—not just this week, but for the past year and a half. Okay, let’s be honest here: ever since Ronin walked ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cormac James

PIERRE’S ROOM WAS STILL EMPTY when Lil got back to the ICU. The nurse’s station, too, was unmanned. She stood in the corridor listening for some sign of life in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Victor Heringer

41 The egg room had a weird smell now. Since Mama had moved in there, she only left to go to the bathroom or have a shower. She’d polish her ...

epub |eng | | Author:Temim Fruchter

Eleven At this point in the telling, it bears explaining that laughter is a cosmically moderate element, wispy as lace. But when enough of it amasses, it becomes substantial. Palpable, ...

epub |eng | 2023-01-03 | Author:Crewe, Tom

XVIII TRAVELING TO HOLBORN VIADUCT was like journeying to the center of the earth. The train from Brixton seemed to move under rather than over ground: the fog pressed round ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-10 | Author:Romeo Preminger [Preminger, Romeo]

I WAS DISTURBED on a number of accounts that morning. The way Virginia talked to Chase and Dinah was a big one, and maybe I shouldn’t have expected anything better, ...