Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 2021-02-22 | Author:K T Bowes

Chapter 23 Hana woke, hearing the bell for the first lesson ringing in the distance. The house sounded silent apart from Phoenix, who lay on her back in the double ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-03 | Author:Gary Eller

* * * * * At the hospital the following day, Mrs. Crosby, the nurse, took them aside to explain that Richie Lee had “thrown a fit” that morning and ...
( Category: Sagas January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:John Banville

25 Phoebe was furious at herself. What had possessed her to go to William Latimer, him of all people, and tell him about Quirke’s phone call? She felt shaken, and ...
( Category: British & Irish January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Neil S. Plakcy

20 – Bromance The Hawskbill Bar chain was a local one, decorated in what my father called “Early Fishnet,” with colorful Japanese glass fishing floats nestled in old rope nets, ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Simpson

* * * Eleanor was standing to leave, when Henry added, “I’ve been offered two corporate tickets for the Chiefs’ next big one, against the Sharks – the South African ...
( Category: Humor January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jordan Taylor

Monday, September 12 Lying on snow. Frozen to earth. Reaching and unmoving. Calling out and silent. Praying and alone. Mary, Mary, Mary, I called to her. Words that never left ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Damián Tabarovsky [Taborovsky, Damian]

Chapter 4 Dami goes outside, walks for a bit. Without knowing why, he starts singing an old song: “Money has no voice / This I won’t deny / I heard ...
( Category: Humor January 15,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-12-06 | Author:Balistrieri, Emily, Morimi, Tomihiko

* * * By afternoon, my four-and-a-half-mat tatami room was a sauna. When I get hot, I get irritated, and the anger I felt toward the underwear thief in the ...
( Category: Psychological January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | 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 January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Bond

* * * TROY CAME IN FROM THE COLD brushing ice off his clothes and inhaling the kitchen’s warm woodsmoke air. In the orphanage there was never any warmth. He ...
( Category: Historical January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-16 | Author:Douglas S. Reed

CHAPTER THIRTY The Old Man has a story to tell. But the Old Man says, “I don’t tell my story to everyone. I only tell those who are believers. You ...
( Category: Black & African American January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Becky Mandelbaum

The hotel was busy, even for a Saturday night. It was a nice hotel, the kind with chandeliers and bellboys. The girls kept adjusting their dresses and wiping the makeup ...
( Category: Short Stories January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-22 | Author:Molly Clavering

2 Mrs. Lorimer and Miss Douglas enjoyed their picnic very much. It was delightful to get away from domestic affairs, especially after the rather extra strenuous ten days which both ...
( Category: British & Irish January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:C.J. Miller [Miller, C. J.]

He’d been dreaming it, and now Lauren was in his arms, in this gold elevator, in New York. Seeing her brought a sharp flare of happiness, intense and bright, almost ...
( Category: Romance January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Martin Amis

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: THE REPUBLICANS IN 1988 The Republican Convention is history now, and history didn’t look too good down in New Orleans, sapped and battered by eight years ...
( Category: Psychological January 14,2023 )