Literary Fiction
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2024-02-02 | Author:Smith [Jane Smith]

Chapter 45 Sunday 19 August 1827 Fraserburgh William Simpson arrived in Fraserburgh early on Sunday morning. He took a carriage to Dr Coutts’s house and sprang up the steps to ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense April 29,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-20 | Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]

19 THREE YEARS EARLIER WILLIAM The estate agent’s name is Miranda, and I waste no time in checking out her impressive curves whenever she turns her back to me. I’ve ...
( Category: Psychological April 29,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-06 | Author:Michelle Jacklyn Miller [Miller, Michelle Jacklyn]

Author Notes: This story was inspired by Washington Irving's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. If you read this story and do a side by side comparison, you should find it ...
( Category: Short Stories April 29,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-03-19 | Author:Nova Jacobs

( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense April 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-15 | Author:Maya Arad

Saturday: Morning Walk “What’s the matter with Yoram?” Miriam asks as soon as they leave. Maya shrugs. “Isn’t he going to see a doctor?” “A doctor?!” Maya’s voice is suddenly ...
( Category: Satire April 28,2024 )