epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Rebecca Brown

I’m sorry I didn’t explain to you why I left. I’m sorry I left the way I did but I was afraid and that is the only smart thing that ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-11 | Author:Luke Cassidy [Cassidy, Luke]

ANTS Y’ever seen a colony’a ants? Isn that what it’s called sure? A colony? Must be. Wee colonialist bastards. That’s what th’are, with those thousands, tens’a thousands, probably hundreds’a thousands’a ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Dave Madden

If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There MY BROTHER WAS GETTING MARRIED ON A BEACH IN North Carolina, and I would not be his best man. Nor would our ...

epub |eng | | Author:Susan Stinson

CHAPTER 9 AFTER THE BOAT RIDE, I STOPPED BEHIND THE house to hose mud and stickers from my legs. Frankie’s water had always been cloudy, but I grew up believing ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Brandon Wicks

Back in the hotel, I peel out of my jeans and hang them over the sink. I keep the suite door open and one ear toward Mom while I change. ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-19 | Author:Christopher Bram [Bram, Christopher]

9 THEN A HAND WITH blunt nails tucked the blanket around the baby’s plump leg. The hand raised a silencing finger across the pinch-lipped smile of my sister. “Liza!” “Sssssh,” ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Catalano, Kevin

The day after the shooting, Rene woke to find Dean sleeping on her couch. He had found her. He’d dug around in the poison muck that was his heart and ...

epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Nella Larsen [Larsen Nella]

So, though with growing yearning she longed for the great ordinary things of life, hunger, sleep, freedom from pain, she resigned herself to doing without them. The possibility of alleviating ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Kristen Wolf [Wolf, Kristen]

Anna had cornered a sheep and was tugging nettles from the bandaging on its hock when she heard Ruth calling. She glanced up and spotted her friend ambling down the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Heti [Heti, Sheila]

ACT 1 • chapter 1 • SHOLEM PAINTS We were having brunch together. It was Sunday. I got there first, then Misha and Margaux arrived, then Sholem and his boyfriend, ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-05 | Author:Sally Bellerose [Bellerose, Sally]

Chapter 8 Saturday, February 18, 2017 “I wish I brought a thermos of coffee. It’s getting cold sitting here.” Regina’s been talking for a long time. “It didn’t occur to ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-09 | Author:Gavin Lambert

* * * When the weather changes, so does our situation. A storm wakes both of us up during the night and he asks, “What am I going to do ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-08 | Author:Celyn Kendrick [Kendrick, Celyn]

Chapter Twenty-Four (o) Rhys crossed his arms as he heard the verdict from the central stair’s toxins test. Jane had been right. And it galled him to admit it. But ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:Filip Vukašin [Vukašin, Filip]

49 Tomas Yesterday Tomas was still buzzing with the excitement of his second day volunteering, being paraded around departments to the nurses and doctors and social workers, answering questions about ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Caldwell [Caldwell, Joseph]

9 THE BUILDING DAVID TOOK Eugene to had smoke stains on the outside that rose from the second- and third-floor windows like hair standing on end in fright. The entire ...