Humor & Satire
epub |eng | 1972-01-16 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

13 It started blowing hard during the night, and by the time it was light a force seven gale was in progress. Slates clattered down from the roof, a tree ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1885-01-27 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER 22 They swarmed up the street towards Sherburn’s house, a-whooping and yelling and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-23 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

ACT TWO There is no passage of time. STACEY [in a deep Southern accent]: Sounded like a disturbance goin’ on down here. EMERSON: Yes, a disturbance, now over. Come on ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

Chapter XIV Of Dolly, and Fond Memory WHEN DARWENT OPENED THE door of the Amber Room, he knew they were awaiting him, even before the cough which answered his knock. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 8,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Rick Gualtieri [Gualtieri, Rick]

“Then how are we getting there, magic?” “Car.” “Hold on a second,” I replied, quickly calling up Google Maps on my PC. “You do realize that it’s over two thousand ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 7,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Carolyn Arnold

- Chapter 13 THE LUCK OF THE BLACK CAT JIMMY HAD CALLED HIS FORMER commander from the car on the way to the police station. Thankfully, Chandra Delarosa said she ...
( Category: Mystery November 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Rick Gualtieri [Gualtieri, Rick]

Calling in the Calvary Thankfully, I felt mostly normal again by the time I’d gone about a block. Whatever strength I’d stolen from that monster had fled as soon as ...
( Category: Fantasy November 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2018-03-11 | Author:Rick Gualtieri & Authors and Dragons [Gualtieri, Rick]

Though it’s debatable whether it was Silas’s intent or desire, by beating the love of Twareg into Slug, he inadvertently found himself named the new pit master of Dingus Glitterfinger’s ...
( Category: Fantasy November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gail Koger [Koger, Gail]

Chapter Ten The chocolate had worked. Temporarily. Mami might be a chocoholic like me, but once she fixated on something, she never stopped until she achieved her goal. Like becoming ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Sussman

CHAPTER ELEVEN MY BACK STILL feels funny. I must have banged it harder than I thought yesterday evening. It doesn’t actually hurt – it just tingles, as though there were ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Matt Mogk

But I dared not stay to see what became of poor daddy. Instead I grabbed my bag and brought my dog along with me. The streets were calm and dark ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-07 | Author:E. F. Benson [Benson, E. F.]

* * * After three years of sun, wind, and rain, I had completely outgrown my early symptoms and had become a tough, strapping youngster of thirteen. I was sent ...
( Category: Classics November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tracy Bloom

Twenty-Seven Somewhere around three o’clock in the morning I decide I’d better have this going-away party soon. Two reasons. As I’d looked at my husband as he carefully divided the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Charlotte Fallowfield [Fallowfield, Charlotte]

Chapter Ten To Friendship Three Months Later – A Saturday in December ‘SO, WHO BOUGHT IT?’ I asked, beyond impatient. The shop had been temporarily closed for weeks. It looked ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-19 | Author:Catherine Alliott

17 I stopped still in the street. We didn’t speak, just stood staring at one another. He was exactly the same. Never tall, but compact and wiry; a presence, despite ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 7,2018 )