Humor & Satire
epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Brockway, Robert [Brockway, Robert]

FOURTEEN Unnamed. Unknown. I see a man on television, a politician on some local access channel, and I know just by looking at him that he is secretly homosexual and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Howard, Jonathan L. [Howard, Jonathan L.]

Talbot Saint John Barnaby—“The Pub Poisoner.” Former landlord. All officers should avoid gratis refreshment at public houses until Barnaby is back in custody. Leslie Coleridge—“The Part-Time Children’s Entertainer of Death.” ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-02 | Author:Maugham, William Somerset [Maugham, William Somerset]

LXIV But about three in the morning Philip awoke and could not sleep again. He began to think of Mildred. He tried not to, but could not help himself. He ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-25 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

GREEN EYES or NO SIGHT WOULD BE WORTH SEEING Green Eyes was first performed at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival on September 25, 2008. It was directed by Jef ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1848-01-01 | Author:Thackeray, William Makepeace [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

Suppose some twelve months after the above conversation took place to have passed in the life of our poor Amelia. She has spent the first portion of that time in ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-07-15 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

IV Babbitt promised to become a recognized orator. He entertained a Smoker of the Men’s Club of the Chatham Road Presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dialect stories. But ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

The Day of Reckoning John took a taxi from the station, as his uncle had told him to do in case they weren’t there to meet him. It was less ...
( Category: Mystery November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Moore, Brian [Moore, Brian]

CHAPTER X ‘Miss Hearne. MISS HEARNE. HELLO THERE? MISS HEARNE?’ She was on the floor. OmyGod, where? Where? My room. She raised herself on an elbow, staring in panic at ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |spa | 2005-01-01 | Author:Ellis, Bret Easton [Ellis, Bret Easton]

14. the kids As I moved slowly up the stairs toward Robby’s room I could hear the muffled sounds of bullets ripping into zombies emanating from what I thought was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Baker, Nicholson [Baker, Nicholson]

GREAT VALUE GRANDE VALEUR Six batteries left. And it turns out I've been carrying around a New York subway map and didn't know it. And that's just one side pouch. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:July, Miranda [July, Miranda]

CHAPTER NINE All the women in Clee’s birth class were in their twenties or thirties, except the teacher, Nancy, who was my age. Whenever Nancy referred to what obstetricians were ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-14 | Author:Amis, Kingsley [Amis, Kingsley]

Chapter Five In the dormitory at St Cecilia’s, Hubert finished folding a coloured shirt and tucked it carefully away in his valigia, watched by Thomas and Mark. Thomas said in ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Ellis, Bret Easton [Ellis, Bret Easton]

13 Feeling really injured, trying to formulate a new game plan in order to halt vacuous wandering, I proceed to various newsstands in desperate need of a New York Post ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:Amis, Kingsley [Amis, Kingsley]

2 Immediately upon getting into the car beside Malcolm, Rhiannon noticed a peaked cap in nearly the same pattern as his jacket folded up on the shelf in front of ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Wong, David (Jason Pargin) [Wong, David (Jason Pargin)]

Molly Note: Do not ask the author how the details of the following sequence of events were obtained. The explanation would only leave you more confused and dissatisfied than would ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )