Literary
epub |eng | | Author:Melania G. Mazzucco

14 LIVE Once it crosses the canal, the road heading north runs parallel to the sea. The city peters out gently. Apartment buildings become elegant three-story homes, campgrounds, marinas, camper ...
( Category: War January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-07-25 | Author:Rita Mae Brown

CHAPTER 34 The weatherman had lied. A thin band of pale pink deepened to salmon, then scarlet, over frost-covered fields, washing them in dawn’s hope. The rim of the sun ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:Daniel Price [Price, Daniel]

________________ Yesterday, Madison had asked me what I’d do if I were Hunta’s publicist. It was a perfect opportunity to bring her into the fold (the outer fold, at least) ...
( Category: Satire January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Blackman, Sarah [Blackman, Sarah]

A Beautiful Girl, A Well Loved One Then, one day, she went into the forest. This was a surprise to no one. What is the surprise when a girl comes ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Laura Joh Rowland [Rowland, Laura Joh]

24 A COLD, UNCOMFORTABLE ferryboat ride took Sano and Marume across the Sumida River. Beyond the entertainment district in Honjo on the other side, past the vegetable markets along the ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Schwartz, Jason [Schwartz, Jason]

The wagon at the hanging: this is no longer on the wall. And now we have the rats and the ants and the way the door sticks, even in winter. ...
( Category: Literary January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Pat G'Orge-Walker [G'Orge-Walker, Pat]

Long after Jessie and Tamara had left, Delilah still couldn’t think of a valid reason not to go to church with them. She still appreciated listening to the choir as ...
( Category: Christian January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Frederick Barthelme

18 Baptism JILLY TOLD me about her baptism. “I was three or four when I was baptized, only we called it christened, that was our name for it. I was ...
( Category: Literary January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-19 | Author:Bill Landauer

the flood The river swells because there’s been a big rainstorm. We cruise past a town where it’s gone up over its banks—you can barely see the roofs of some ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:S. Yizhar

7 IN THE MEANTIME WE WERE CALLED to lunch, and never had a midday break been more welcome. Not just to provide a respite from all that stuff down below, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:SJ Naudé

Hisashi is sitting next to her on the bed. He is standing around, as if supervising. She points to the wild gardenia growing near her bedroom window. ‘Go and pick ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Wurlitzer, Rudolph [Wurlitzer, Rudolph]

DELHI. TRAIN STATION — MIDDAY . . . Jim and Lacey descend from the train carrying only one bag apiece. Stunned and dazed from the blistering heat, they walk slowly ...
( Category: Literary January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Steven Harper

CHAPTER ELEVEN The great hall of the keep wasn’t quite as great as Danr was expecting. The low ceiling beams, blackened by centuries of smoke, almost brushed Danr’s head, and ...
( Category: Epic January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Connie Rose Porter

SEVEN Peek-a-Boo JESUS WOKE ME this morning way before the sun come up. Poking me all in the back. I had him under my pillow, but somehow he got loose ...
( Category: Domestic Life January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nellie Hermann

December 10 Dear Theo, No doubt you remember my friend Harry Gladwell, whom I lived and worked with in Paris—the one who took over my position when I left Goupil’s? ...
( Category: Biographical January 29,2015 )