epub |eng | 2024-02-11 | Author:Gui Ribeiro [Ribeiro, Gui]

“Do you really think so?” “Don’t take it as a compliment.” “Too late.” Suddenly, they were both laughing alone in the middle of a courtyard, under the dark veil of ...

epub |eng | 2023-12-12 | Author:Miller, Morgan Lee [Miller, Morgan Lee]

Chapter Nine The morning after, I wake with a piercing headache, as if I tossed back a bottle of cheap wine all by myself. I fumble through the medicine drawer ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-30 | Author:Henry Van Dyke

3 Belle Thompson had a catharsis about every other month, or so she use to tell me when I read to her the Shakespeare sonnets. I wondered, as I passed ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-20 | Author:Quigley, Glenn

WITH THE STAR We Sail By locked up tight and Dahlia retired to her bed, Vince and Felix sat in the tiny parlour on the top floor. Nestled at the ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-15 | Author:Amy Paine [Paine, Amy]

Chapter Five “You look very thin,” Maud observed. “What’s the matter? You’re not trying to lose more weight, are you? You young things these days. All you seem to do ...

epub |eng | 2024-03-04 | Author:Rebecca Harwick [Harwick, Rebecca]

18 Ordinary Time 1630-1631 In the quiet hours, after the sun has set, when lovers and children are in bed, I still catch myself wandering time-worn roads back to that ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-09 | Author:Ashley Parker [Parker, Ashley]

14 I help my grandma set the table, doling out nine plates, nine sets of silverware, nine carefully folded paper napkins. Grandma and Grandpa sit at opposite ends of the ...

epub |eng | 2023-12-27 | Author:Jeffrey L. Richards [Richards, Jeffrey L.]

24 As the tattoo needle digs into the flesh of his left forearm, Karel holds his breath. In isolated blocks the number appears like a manifested ghost, then dulls instantly ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-15 | Author:Da Feng Gua Guo [Guo, Da Feng Gua]

After we ate at the restaurant, Bai Rujin took me to visit his house and talk over some shop business. Bai Rujin’s family ranked among the richest in Chengzhou City, ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-14 | Author:Marianne Ratcliffe [Ratcliffe, Marianne]

‘Ann, you seem in good spirits,’ Sarah remarked that night at dinner, observing an unusual glimmer in her sister’s eye. ‘Eleanor and Mrs Lowther visited us today.’ ‘I’m sorry that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Renee King [King, Renee]

At work, I was on cruise control, blankly banging out scripts. I would have congratulated myself on a job well done, if Will didn’t keep walking by obviously trying to ...

epub |eng | 2023-05-31 | Author:Kelley York [York, Kelley]

Sixteen Work remained steady. Throughout the month of November, as the weather went from chilled but bearable to freezing, Lucas piled into the wagon with Barker and Pendleton and delivered ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-02 | Author:Jane Walsh [Walsh, Jane]

Chapter Seventeen Have you never heard of such a thing as a woman desiring another woman?” Maeve asked, struggling to keep her voice even. She lost all pleasure in the ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-14 | Author:Kim Pritekel [Pritekel, Kim]

Chapter Seventeen She was utterly exhausted. “Lesson Two” had consisted of Justice having to essentially recreate what they’d watched through the peephole with Macie, who called it the “missionary position.” ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karin Kallmaker [Kallmaker, Karin]

CHAPTER TWELVE SHE UNLOCKED THE CAR and stood for a moment, aware that folding her overly full stomach into the seat was going to be uncomfortable. It might also make ...