epub |eng | | Author:India Millar [Millar, India]

Twenty Sand trickles through my Fingers. It is the feel of Your touch on my palm We stripped the men of their possessions. Four of them were dead, the fifth ...

epub |eng | | Author:Steve Bein

Chapter 9 Kaida sat in the lotus position at the foot of her thin little futon, meditating on her problems. Eisaku had not allotted her much in terms of sleeping ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrew J King

She can hear raised voices in another room. Tadasu. Trying to restrain himself, but … angry. His mother. Outrage, offence, exasperation in her tone, changing to resentful remonstration. The Grandmother’s ...

epub |eng | | Author:Irving Warner

July 31, 1943. Otaru Barracks, Japan When all seems tolerable the intolerable returns. Chief Constable Osimi proudly announced yesterday that through valiant efforts we are now self-sustaining, and no more ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lee Geum-yi

“Aboji, later on we’ll lay you to rest beside Omoni and your son. Rest in peace here for now.” Willow stood crying in front of the old man’s gravestone. Her ...

pdf | | 2020-08-26 | Author:Hanna S. Skrabkova & Maria G. Chernysheva & Alexander M. Arutyunyan & Gennadii A. Badun

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo

Now this year goes away I’ve kept it hidden from my parents That my hair is gray. —Etsujin 14 GRAY HAIR HARUNA Two weeks before my father’s death, he found ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Gene Masters

Chapter 16 Commander Hiriake Ito stood on the bridge of Atsukaze, first in a line of ten vessels that had been hugging the western coast of Palau Island, northbound at ...

epub |eng | | Author:C. K. Stead

CHAPTER 12 THE ANGER ABATED, I was forgiven, and the even-tempered Jesus, the advocate of peace and harmony, the defender of the poor, the downtrodden and unfortunate, returned. I’d had ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-01 | Author:Ann Bennett [Bennett, Ann]

Chapter 17 That night Nazira and I moved to sleep up in the roof-space, and a new routine established itself. Nazira would leave in the mornings as before, but I ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-01 | Author:Ann Bennett [Bennett, Ann]

Chapter 19 Sirinya laid the colonel’s letter out on the table in the apartment. The whole family were seated around waiting for her to begin, their faces grave and expectant ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:Sloan Wilson [Wilson Sloan]

epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:I. J. Parker

27 Another Death Tora sat beside Midori, holding her hand, watching anxiously her labored breathing. He was in a quandary. He should long since have reported back. There was already ...

epub |eng | 2023-03-07 | Author:Keiichiro Ryu [Ryu, Keiichiro]

* * * — Her white skin seemed to shine. Seiichiro felt her skin seemed brighter now that she was lying on the futon than when she had sat on ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:I. J. Parker

20 The Kindness of Dragons Saburo knew he had reacted too late! And with that came the knowledge that he had no time to waste. He rolled, pushing the creature ...