Literary Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Vance Bourjaily

Only once, in three weeks, did things go really wrong between them. It happened on an afternoon which was like any other afternoon in the beginning. They had lunch; they ...
( Category: Classics October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:AlTonya Washington

Chapter 9 “Coming!” Tielle made no move to leave the bed. Smiling, she wondered at how many times she’d cried out that word during the night before and into the ...
( Category: Black & African American October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tina Martin

THE DRIVE ISN’T far but by the time we arrive back to her friend’s house, she’s dozed off. I sit here and admire her beauty for a moment before I ...
( Category: Black & African American October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Karen Rose Smith

Chapter Eight While unpacking clothes on Sunday afternoon, deciding what rack they would go on, labeling and pricing them, Kaitlyn spotted Adam walk through the door from her vantage point ...
( Category: Romance October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Charles Dickinson

“If the worst happens—” Muff Greene said. “What’s the worst?” “We can’t get back control of the presses,” Muff Greene said. “Or they damage them in some way. Can we ...
( Category: Satire October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Tomas Gonzalez [Tomas Gonzalez]

20 THE SOMMELIER uncorked the bottle and poured a little into the glass. Fernando, the bank manager, sniffed the bouquet—he had already sniffed the cork—and said it was lovely. After ...
( Category: Satire October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-31 | Author:Anjali Joseph

‘Keteki,’ said Mark the next afternoon, ‘let’s finish up now. I’m going for a walk, do you want to come? Or are you going to Ved’s?’ ‘Not today,’ Keteki said. ...
( Category: British & Irish October 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Lynn Michaels [Michaels, Lynn]

Chapter 18 Trey went to work with Lindsay on Saturday and cleaned the stock room. Emma dusted the window displays, wiped the shelves in all the sections, and spruced up ...
( Category: Sagas October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-21 | Author:Henry James [JAMES, HENRY]

BOOK SECOND: THE PRINCESS PART FOURTH XXV It was not till many days had passed that the Princess began to accept the idea of having done, a little, something she ...
( Category: Psychological October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Jess Riley

Nevada: Wide Open Most people don’t become dependent on someone else, even a family member, overnight. Usually, it’s a gradual process: an elderly aunt falling in the shower, breaking a ...
( Category: Sagas October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Richard Mason [Mason, Richard]

31 The office in which Joan's unexpected savior was being confined for the summer was dingy and ill lit and smelled strongly of rotting fruit. The room owed its atmosphere ...
( Category: Sagas October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Mary Hays [Hays, Mary]

Paul offered to go to work on the water problem while they waited to find out if Hoskins would choose to come down on his own, though he’d need some ...
( Category: Sagas October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Weisgall [Weisgall, Deborah]

GILBERT PRYCE was late. Annoyed, Caroline paced from the hotel entrance to the dock and back again. She decided to give him another five minutes. The waiters watched her covertly; ...
( Category: Biographical October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:John O'Neill

2 Over Eastern Canada, May, 2008 I’M A WHITE-KNUCKLER, WHEN IT COMES TO FLYING. Never thought about what that phrase meant, white-knuckled, till the first time I flew, crabbed my ...
( Category: Short Stories October 22,2022 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Azhar Abidi

11 ON FRIDAY OF the following week, after clearing away the lunch plates, Mumtaz hurried off to meet Omar. Bilqis had come home early, as it was a half-day and ...
( Category: Short Stories October 22,2022 )