Genre Literature & Fiction
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Donald Harington [Harington, Donald]

Chapter nineteen When the delegation of womenfolk came into the bivouac, my favorite woman addressed my favorite man. “Excuse us if we’re interrupting anything real important,” Latha said. “But we ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1964-01-01 | Author:Kōbō Abe

WELL, what to do? Rather than standing around, arms folded, not knowing what to do, I was overflowing and alert with curiosity. At any rate, I was walking alone with ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Mary Robison

Chapter Nine 280 I need coffee bad, and I need a clothes dryer that’s free. Over there, Mev, squeezing her fingers into her jeans pocket to find quarters for a ...
( Category: Community & Culture Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Christopher Slatsky [Slatsky, Christopher]

AT RISE: A carbon arc lamp illuminates a spirit cabinet at stage center. The cabinet is constructed from a dark tarp suspended by a skeleton of wooden frames held together ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Ágota Kristóf

*** Lucas says to the child, "We're moving. We'll be living in town, in the main square. I bought the bookshop." The child says, "That's good. I'll be closer to ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-09 | Author:Harlan Ellison [Ellison, Harlan]

Afterword I have not written much science fiction in the last few years, though the little I have written has been well-received. The reason for this is simple. In spite ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1997-09-16 | Author:W.G. Sebald

languages, was an arduous task, one I should probably never have accomplished if those words committed to paper almost eighty years before had not, as it were, opened up of ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Anna Kavan

THE GANNETS IT was springtime, a windy day. I had walked a long way on the cliffs by a path that I did not know. Gannets were diving like snow ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:Kerry Greenwood [Greenwood, Kerry]

‘Desperate’.” Poor thing! What happened to her?’ ‘She died, Dot, and I suspect she was a suicide. Those are all symptoms of depression.’ ‘Well, she could have taken a tonic,’ ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-07-04 | Author:Ryszard Kapuściński [Kapuściński, Ryszard]

For the natives, however, the dramas are real, and the tragedies painful and not exaggerated. So it was in Rwanda. The revolution of 1959 divided the Banyarwanda nation into two ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Z.Z. Packer [Packer, Z.Z.]

THE DISHWASHERS always closed down the dining hall. One night, after everyone else had punched out, Heidi and I took a break, and though I wasn’t a smoker, we set ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:John Updike

capac. for self-decep. Foxy said sharply, “I won’t believe it. Everything people have ever built up, Freddy, you’d let slide and fall apart.” “I do my job,” he answered. “It’s ...
( Category: American Literature October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-11 | Author:Sarina Bowen & Heart Eyes Press [Bowen, Sarina & Press, Heart Eyes]

That blissed-out feeling doesn’t go away, either. Usually, after a hookup, I wait around a little while and then head home. That’s my MO. It sends a friendly message but ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Taylor [Taylor, Patrick]

* * * Full of warm feelings for the Driscoll family, Barry stopped at the Ballybucklebo traffic light and looked up at the decorated maypole’s festive finery. He had a ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-05 | Author:Amitava Kumar [Kumar, Amitava]

* * * — VAANI WAS BORN in Ranchi, her father a pilot in the air force and her mother an amateur musician fond of playing the sitar at cultural ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )