Literary
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:John Darnielle [John Darnielle]

4 Peter wished some moment of clarification might present itself: it was hard, by June, to keep silent about the changes in Irene, about the strain those changes were placing ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Laurie Lico Albanese [Laurie Lico Albanese]

MARIA 1938 A sharp pain woke me in the dark. The bedroom felt small and close, and the air smelled like rust. Rain was tapping at the window with long, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Rachel Cusk

Solly had felt before the way everything altered just before a child was born. It was how she sometimes thought it might be to approach death. Everything grew very slightly ...
( Category: Literary August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Ernest Van der Kwast

My Brother’s Wedding and My Father’s Songbird The wedding in Venas took place on a blue day. The sun had risen above the mountains in the morning, setting fire to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

TABLET IV Column i At twenty leagues they broke off a morsel. 1(?) At thirty leagues they prepared for the night. At fifty leagues they walked all day. The distance ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:Derek B. Miller

23 ‘Who makes these?’Arwood asks, regarding the black hood on the floor. He’s sitting on the mattress and playing with it on the end of his foot. ‘What?’ Benton replies. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Muhsin Mahdi

But morning overtook Shahrazad, and she lapsed into silence. Then Dinarzad said to her sister, “What a strange and entertaining story!” Shahrazad replied, “What is this compared with what I ...
( Category: Literary August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hannah Pittard

14 “All I mean,” said Mark, “is that it makes no sense.” He was standing in the lobby of the sixth hotel he’d walked into since Maggie had passed out ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard [Howard, Elizabeth Jane]

3. Surrey Blues It wasn’t until after Elizabeth had rung up that May realized how down she had been. Three or four times a day she had been telling herself ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Jessica Winter

Dolly Jen was at work, leaving a voicemail for Jim. “In the dream, I’m in a simple Lutheran church, everything’s wood; hard, cold pews; hard, cold everything, but lots of ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 22,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-22 | Author:Francesca Kay [Francesca Kay]

Sunday When he woke on Sunday morning to find that snow had already covered roofs and levelled roads and pavements, Stephen, foreseeing problems on the Great West Road, had again ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maryse Meijer

JAILBAIT For stealing two beers and giving a clerk the bird at a Super Stop I spend one night in jail. They put me in a cell with eight other ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-22 | Author:Percival Everett

Ted was pleased to hear of my bold move into the media business. I was surprised, however, to learn that not only had he not prompted it, he’d known nothing ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Indra Das

INTERVAL Before I know it summer’s gone like the blink of a firefly’s abdomen, and it’s puja season. The stranger and I walk around the city in the midst of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-09 | Author:Chad Dundas

Part III ONE FALL TO A FINISH She slept in fits and when she woke he was still there, sitting in a chair with his forearms resting on the tiny ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )