Dark Humor
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Marek Hlasko

LITTLE DOV WAS WALKING ALONG THE BEACH, HIS RIGHT arm around Esther. In his left hand he was carrying his shirt and shoes; it was so dark he could barely ...
( Category: Lawyers & Criminals January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Robert Ford [Ford, Robert]

A WINTER OF DISCONTENT The lights in the Rec were always kept candle-low, an easy gloom that complemented the scruffy bar and its bingers. Towards the back of the room, ...
( Category: Dystopian January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Lydia Millet [Millet, Lydia]

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: Dark Humor December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Julian Tepper & Julian

FIVE In a taxi in traffic on 34th, Henry, feeling deeply unstable, tried turning his anguish into art. He saw that it all wanted to come out of him at ...
( Category: Dark Humor December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Fred Venturini

SIXTEEN After two nights at the Allsop, the manager told me my check bounced. No surprise there. I drained the account right after I wrote the check, buying a digital ...
( Category: Coming of Age December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Magnus Mills

A telephone number was also given. I read the advert several times to make sure I wasn’t mistaken, then continued turning the pages. Further along someone was inviting advance orders ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Will Wiles [Wiles, Will]

‘Thank you so much for this; you’re a real friend for helping out.’ Oskar’s relief at my agreement to look after his flat had been palpable, an effervescence cutting through ...
( Category: Satire November 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Olivia Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Olivia]

. Later that evening, Brenda fell into a cane-backed chair in the restaurant at the museum and let out a loud sigh. Annie, sitting opposite, started to laugh. “Honestly, Brenda. ...
( Category: Dark Humor November 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1992-03-31 | Author:Iain Banks

It took me a week to recover, and it was one of the best weeks of my life. Eric came back from his school cruise and I started to talk ...
( Category: European November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Yan, Mo [Yan, Mo]

In the early years of the Republic, a performer came to Wine Fragrance village, a woman whose beauty matched that of the Moon Goddess. Among the villagers crowding around to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 6,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Steven Erikson

FOURTEEN Hadrian found Buck waiting outside the airlock chamber on Deck Twenty. “Ah, my chief engineer. What’s up?” “It’s Tammy, sir! The AI is infiltrating all the drive systems! It ...
( Category: Humorous October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Anthony Bourdain [Bourdain, Anthony]

21 As soon as they'd cut the engine, Henry came back to sit on the gunwale and smoke a cigarette. Charlie's line was limp in the water, the old man ...
( Category: Organized Crime October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Bukowski, Charles]

then there was a knock on the door and in came Monzo the poet and his wife Denise. Denise hated me with a hatred much more powerful than Monzo’s poems. ...
( Category: European October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-09-17 | Author:Irvine Welsh [Welsh, Irvine]

Post-Holiday Blues My first day back after a holiday and that cunt Toal calls me into his office. There’s something different about that spastic, and it takes me a second ...
( Category: Crime September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Sam Lipsyte [Lipsyte, Sam]

Eighteen How sick and marvelous an age this was, wherein I could boot up my desktop with a couple of names or notions in mind--Todd Wilkes, William Moraley, indentured servitude, ...
( Category: Humorous September 29,2014 )