Literary Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Tilghman

* * * “Sweetheart?” He was standing outside their room, announcing himself, asking to come in. The door was closed, and at the moment, that made their bedroom her space. ...
( Category: Sagas May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-16 | Author:Malcolm Hollingdrake [Hollingdrake, Malcolm]

Danny Maynard sat crouched in the corner of Beales’s shed, the only one devoid of domestic and gardening equipment. The diffused light from the outside lamp, positioned on the corner ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-13 | Author:Tory Baker [Baker, Tory]

9 Kade “Drena,” I call her name, but she’s already booking it. I look from my dad to her mom, shake my head, and go after her. Fuck whatever it ...
( Category: Short Stories May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:Sharyn McCrumb [McCrumb, Sharyn]

“Where should we leave the wreath?” “The Infield Gate,” said Harley. “It leads directly onto the track. But Ratty will need some time to get the wreath out of the ...
( Category: Romance May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John P. Marquand [Marquand, John P.]

XXI Good-by to All That Now and then, even as late as 1920, it was not difficult to hear someone humming “Where Do We Go from Here?” Songs like that ...
( Category: Satire May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoffrey Household [Household, Geoffrey]

TECHNIQUE The curtain flopped on to the dusty boards. The crowd roared for more. Una mujer estupenda—a stupendous woman! So the playbills called her, and so she was. The crowd ...
( Category: Short Stories May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:John P. Marquand [Marquand, John P.]

XVII Willis always liked to think that Sylvia’s and his honeymoon had been a very happy one, and certainly before it was completed they had learned a lot about each ...
( Category: Psychological May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:C. H. B. Kitchin [Kitchin, C. H. B.]

10 It was the third week in October—the first cold snap of the year. Francis was having tea in his sitting-room, beside a coal-fire, enjoying that feeling of safety and ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-29 | Author:C. H. B. Kitchin [Kitchin, C. H. B.]

V. THE SUMMER TERM (1) 4th May, 1910. Mapp’s Club, St James’s, S.W. My dear Francis, I’m sorry our leave-taking was so bustled yesterday, but perhaps it was as well. ...
( Category: Classics May 4,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-15 | Author:Carys Davies

( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction May 3,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-03-12 | Author:Leif Enger

Early light and the wind did not abate. Slowly the cabin came visible, a slaughter of pans and cans and paper trash. Such was the violence before heaving to that ...
( Category: Action & Adventure April 30,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-03-15 | Author:Callie Stevens [Stevens, Callie]

( Category: Romance April 30,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-14 | Author:Martin Clark

CHAPTER TWELVE October 12 was Columbus Day, and Peter Morley was scheduled to attend a pig-pickin’ fundraiser at noon, then he was filming a campaign commercial for regional TV, and ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense April 29,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-09-12 | Author:Lauren Groff [Groff, Lauren]

* * * It was foolish to stop to rest when her little boat was moving so sweet with the wind and the current, she thought, as if it were ...
( Category: Historical April 29,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Signs and Vague Directions H eather never expected her grandfather would leave her anything in his will, not after she’d called him a cheat at a family picnic checkers game ...
( Category: Humor April 29,2024 )