Humor & Satire
epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Matthew Hughes [Hughes, Matthew]

"You wanted a prophet," Chesney said. "I've brought you one." Captain Denby called it a day at six in the evening. The Taxidermist paperwork was under control; he'd shanghaied a ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-20 | Author:E. F. Benson

CHAPTER 2 They arrived at Tilling in the middle of the afternoon, entering it from the long level road that ran across the reclaimed marshland to the west. Blue was ...
( Category: Classics September 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Schweizer, Mark [Schweizer, Mark]

* * * "I heard all y'all were looking for singers," said a voice from the top of the choir stairs. I looked up from where I was seated on ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jenny Gardiner

"--Sounds sort of hot for tennis," Lucy interrupted. "Yes, that was the consensus. But I liked it. It’s in my personal stash now." "Maybe for Christmastime?" "Lucy, that’s a fantastic ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub | | 2012-06-16 | Author:Mark Schweizer [Schweizer, Mark]

* * * Nancy went back to the office to set up the phone tap. I stayed and dusted for prints. There were none. None, as in not any. The ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Norman Mailer

29 I was coming to comprehend that one must enter the darkness that lives beneath every radiance of spirit. And I wished to open my apostles to such a truth. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 23,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN MUNSHIN let out a surly belch. “I figured that would be your reaction,” he said, and he leaned forward in his chair. “What would you say, Charley, if ...
( Category: Literary September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-02 | Author:T. C. Boyle

4. ONE SLIT’S ENOUGH As it turned out, Dr. Brush wasn’t a man to rock the boat, even if it was in his power to do so, which it wasn’t. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Zeffer, Andy [Zeffer, Andy]

A New John “Shit!” I yelled in exasperation. The tape gun got messed up again for the hundredth time that af­ternoon, sticking tape everywhere but the package. Ron was raking ...
( Category: Humorous September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Donald Westlake [Westlake, Donald]

Alan Pinkleton shared his lunch instead. There was no point playing fart buzzer with a paid companion, so the simple humor machine remained in Preston’s pocket as he collected food ...
( Category: Mystery September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Donald Westlake [Westlake, Donald]

Mrs. W (as she preferred to be called by the staff) was, for instance, on the boards of many of the city’s organizations, as well as a director of a ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Donald Westlake [Westlake, Donald]

“When?” Kelp asked him. “Early,” Dortmunder said. “If he isn’t there yet, we’ll wait for him. We’ll have an early dinner, the four of us, then you and me’ll go ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Donald Westlake [Westlake, Donald]

“Anything you say,” Kelp said. He was pulling the handcuffs out of his hip pocket. “And you,” Dortmunder told the chauffeur, “you just sit there and keep your mouth shut. ...
( Category: Mystery September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Donald Westlake [Westlake, Donald]

“I don’t know what you did —” “Mistaken identity.” “All I know is, you saved my sanity. Also, I still need help with these shrimp.” “You got it.” “There’s one ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]

31 Monday afternoon, three-thirty. Mordon Leethe watched Jack Fullerton the Fourth set flame to a cigarette from a Greek Revival lighter the size of a football. There was then a ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 22,2017 )