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The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-03-31 | Author:Grégoire Courtois

IV The sun had come up, revealing a cloak of damp fog that had risen from the ground and gotten tangled in the trunks and the branches, gently cooling them ...
( Category: Dark Humor July 18,2019 )
King of the Mississippi by Mike Freedman
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Mike Freedman

* * * • • • Wharton clutched K.K.’s bumpy hand under the table as he counted down to dessert, seasonal berries and cream. It would be strawberries, it always ...
( Category: Humorous July 14,2019 )
Lady Guardians: The Wrong Side of Right by L. Loren & Lady Guardians
epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:L. Loren & Lady Guardians [Loren, L.]

Over the next several weeks, Fenton and I juggled our schedules enough to see each other a couple of times a week. When he wasn’t working double shifts, he made ...
( Category: Short Stories July 11,2019 )
My Uncle Oswald (Expect the Unexpected) by Dahl Roald
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Dahl, Roald [Dahl, Roald]

13 By early June, 1919, we were almost ready to go. I say almost because we still had not agreed upon the list of names. Who would be the great ...
( Category: Humorous July 6,2019 )
Maggsie McNaughton's Second Chance by Frances Maynard
epub |eng | | Author:Frances Maynard

27 Woman’s World, 12 September 2018 Five Ways to Be a Better Neighbour! Trudie still left her door open. So my cat could come in. In her dreams. She had ...
( Category: Coming of Age July 4,2019 )
Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Marcy Dermansky

* * * — For the second day in a row, Ian Thornton came to the pickup line for Amelia. “You’re coming swimming with us?” he said. “Right?” I shook ...
( Category: Family Life July 3,2019 )
Sellevision: A Novel by Augusten Burroughs
epub |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Augusten Burroughs [Burroughs, Augusten]

A s the Concorde flew against the rotation of the earth, Bebe rested her head on Eliot’s shoulder. Then she noticed the in-flight duty-free shopping catalog and she immediately reached ...
( Category: Humor June 28,2019 )
Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Stephen Graham Jones

*** Five years later I’d get stopped in the rich residential over behind Midland Lee. Not pulled over but waved down at a roadblock we knew better than to back ...
( Category: Biographical June 24,2019 )
The Polyglot Lover by Lina Wolff
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Lina Wolff

Ruben and Mildred Rondas Cultural Journalism and Paranormal Phenomena I recognized the name “Ruben” immediately. I was sure it wasn’t the first time I’d heard it, and because the subheading ...
( Category: Dark Humor June 21,2019 )
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
epub |eng | | Author:Lydia Millet

WE WENT DOWN to the shore later to forget our troubles, swim and snorkel off some buffet calories; Steve came with us, dressed in a cruel Speedo. We saw it ...
( Category: Satire June 21,2019 )
The Malaise Falchion (Spade Case Files Book 1) by Paul Barrett
epub |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:Paul Barrett [Barrett, Paul]

11 I pulled out my Firestarter. It was like grabbing a grain of sand to fight a crab, but it was the best I could do. The helmsmen spun the ...
( Category: Dark Humor June 13,2019 )
Plume by Will Wiles
epub |eng | 2019-03-24 | Author:Will Wiles [Will Wiles]

EIGHT Pierce’s flat was three minutes away. That was one of the sympathetic details in Night Traffic: that the attack had happened so close to where he lived, in a ...
( Category: Urban Life June 12,2019 )
How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Richard Roper

— CHAPTER 16 — To Andrew’s dismay, the trip was nearly scuppered before they’d even booked train tickets. Cameron, for reasons that were unclear, had taken to getting people’s attention ...
( Category: Humorous June 11,2019 )
The Republic by joost De Vries & Jane Hedley-Prole
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:joost De Vries & Jane Hedley-Prole

* * * — And yet there I was, me of all people, hurrying along the corridor of my five-star hotel with panic at my heels. To flee: that was ...
( Category: Absurdist June 11,2019 )
Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Binnie Kirshenbaum

The Tip of a Cigarette With her thumb growing sore, Bunny keeps at it, keeps trying to light her cigarette, but the wind repeatedly extinguishes the flame before it can ...
( Category: Family Life May 13,2019 )

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