epub |eng | | Author:Emily Liebert

21 KERRIE If there’s one thing I’ve learned about whiskey tastings—because, as you might imagine, this is my first—it’s that it’s impossible not to end up marginally drunk. Of course, ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Paula Fox [Fox, Paula]

Nina had been deluded that first day. Even I, who knew better, hadn’t sensed how fleeting, how scant, was the energy that had given my aunt an air of self-possession. ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-24 | Author:Will Wiles [Will Wiles]

EIGHT Pierce’s flat was three minutes away. That was one of the sympathetic details in Night Traffic: that the attack had happened so close to where he lived, in a ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-07 | Author:Susannah Erwin

* * * Someone shook Luke’s shoulder, soft but insistent. “Hey.” He opened his eyes to find Danica standing over him. She was dressed, her black shirtdress somewhat rumpled but ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Edward Conlon

12 YOU’VE HEARD THIS SONG BEFORE When a felon’s not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Layne

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Though she sometimes had a hard time believing it herself, somehow over the past couple of years Naomi had become one of those women who enjoyed running. ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Catherine Cusset & Teresa Fagan

DEATH IS OVERRATED One evening in November, when he was having dinner with Gregory and Ian, the phone rang. The person on the other end, David Graves, had been David’s ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Susan Holmes McKagan

Romeo & Scarlett The next thing I knew, it was two thirty in the morning and I’d spent at least half an hour drunkenly circumnavigating the legendary Pappas & Beer, ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-11 | Author:Toni Kan [Toni Kan]

There was a riot. The college was shut down just two weeks before our final exams were due to start. The strike was one month old when I realised that ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-20 | Author:Maria Gainza

Twenty years after her students’ sudden departure, Amalia visited Tokyo. When she got up to her hotel room, she took out an old Filofax and dialed a number. Miuki answered ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Erik Tarloff

Gerhard Fuchs (musician) I met Chance Hardwick at a party at, let me see, I think it was the Prices’. Vincent and Mary’s. Yes, definitely at the Prices’. Vincent, you ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Ha Seong-nan

Flowers of Mold From the fifth floor, the playground looks like a small pond. The heavy downpour from two days before has created muddy puddles that refuse to dry up. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Carr

* * * Whenever there is a smooth patch of road, John tries to make notes for the article he will pen as soon as he gets back. He invokes ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Doug Johnstone [Doug Johnstone]

24 Tyler checked on Bean, who had slid halfway out of bed onto a pile of clothes. For some reason she was also wearing an old scarf of Tyler’s like ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:Seth Greenland [Greenland, Seth]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Blood sluiced from Jay’s nose as he called 911 on his cell phone and kneeled by the unconscious Dag. He apologized, told him he had never meant to ...