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Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia by Jessica James
epub |eng | 2008-04-11 | Author:Jessica James [Jessica James]

Chapter 37 “Even God cannot change the past.” – Aristotle Andrea lifted her eyes from a book to gaze at the rays of soft sunlight drenching the lawn in a ...
( Category: Military December 28,2015 )
When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories by David Benioff
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:David Benioff [Benioff, David]

2 Fourteen years later I was at home by myself, watching a rental movie on the VCR, an old James Cagney gangster flick. Midway through came a few seconds of ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2015 )
Fugue State: Stories by Brian Evenson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Brian Evenson [Evenson, Brian]

A month later, by cutting a few corners, Kossweiller had hit his own ninety over ninety. He had several hundred manuscript pages, all of them terrible—even the recipes led to ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2015 )
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

CHAPTER 24 The Minefields The whole fourteen-mile length of the Straits from the entrance at Cape Helles up to the Narrows at Chanak was within range of different types of ...
( Category: England December 26,2015 )
The Two Sams: Ghost Stories by Glen Hirshberg
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-13 | Author:Glen Hirshberg [Hirshberg, Glen]

Dancing Men We’d been all afternoon in the Old Jewish Cemetery, where green light filters through the trees and lies atop the tumbled tombstones like algae. Mostly I think the ...
( Category: Horror December 25,2015 )
Sean Griswold's Head by Lindsey Leavitt
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Lindsey Leavitt [Leavitt, Lindsey]

I start Dad’s valentine the second I get home from school. My base is a poster board I’d done my seventh-grade history project on. I crumple it up and rip ...
( Category: Multiple Sclerosis December 25,2015 )
Pétronille by Nothomb Amélie
epub |eng | 2014-08-21 | Author:Nothomb,Amélie [Nothomb,Amélie]

( Category: Occult December 25,2015 )
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Sillitoe Alan
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-27 | Author:Sillitoe, Alan [Sillitoe, Alan]

I was born dead, I keep telling myself. Everybody's dead, I answer. So they are, I maintain, but then most of them never know it like I'm beginning to do, ...
( Category: Short Stories December 24,2015 )
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack
epub |eng | 2015-06-27 | Author:Rachel Pollack

Five The Baby on the Bridge Laurie discovered she could hear Kate crying even after she’d stopped. She discovered this in the shower one day, where she’d gone in hopes ...
( Category: Anthologies December 23,2015 )
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

What sort of book was it that Father-in-law shoved at Benedikt? Should he go and ask? Since Father-in-law didn't get sick, knock, knock, knock on wood, then it was true: ...
( Category: Literary December 21,2015 )
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Donald Barthelme

14 Alexander, Sam, and Edmund. Requesting permission to speak. Of course, said Thomas. What is it? Well sir, said Alexander, some of the boys have been thinking. Yes? What is ...
( Category: Literary December 21,2015 )
On Nathaniel Drinkwater by Richard Woodman
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Woodman

( Category: Military December 20,2015 )
A Cold Death in Amsterdam by Jager Anja de
mobi |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Jager, Anja de [Jager, Anja de]

Stefanie showed no interest in Wouter’s art collection and walked straight past the paintings without stopping. She had already been waiting for me outside Wouter’s apartment building. Wouter wore a ...
( Category: Contemporary December 20,2015 )
New Year at the Boss's Bidding by Rachael Thomas
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Rachael Thomas [Thomas, Rachael]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE SMELL OF freshly extinguished candles filled the room but all Xavier could think of was taking Tilly in his arms, kissing her all over, exploring every bit ...
( Category: Contemporary December 19,2015 )
Waiting for the Flood by Hall Alexis
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:Hall, Alexis [Hall, Alexis]

Is mainly full of sofa. An L-shaped pile of lavish squishiness that takes up most of two walls, indulgently big for two, far too big for one. He remembers their ...
( Category: LGBT Romance December 18,2015 )

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