Literary
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Jamil Jan Kochai

The Widow’s Tale “Her name is Khaista,” Abo said, “which once suited her since she had been a great beauty in her day. And as it goes with great beauties, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-25 | Author:Claire Adam [Claire Adam]

10 Father Kavanagh had expected to be lonely at first. When he arrived in Trinidad in August, he knew only the name of his supervisor who would meet him at ...
( Category: Family Life February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Leila Slimani

( Category: Mothers & Children February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Jaclyn Gilbert [Gilbert, Jaclyn]

Nancy followed a small boarded path after she passed the parking lot. The boards kept her bare feet from burning. It took her about twenty minutes to notice the first ...
( Category: Sports February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bo Caldwell

August 8, 1917 Since Lily’s passing, I have many moments when I think she is here. It can be anything—a bundle of clean laundry on the bed whose curved shape ...
( Category: Literary February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Laurel Saville [Saville, Laurel]

14. Brayden had dreams not of what his father had done to him, but of his own rage and escape from unseen tormentors. They were not nightmares but live-action sequences ...
( Category: Anthologies February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marianne Schlegelmilch

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Homer THE BEACH SHELLS MOTEL STOOD ATOP A 1000 FT. BLUFF THAT overlooked lower Cook Inlet and the head of the chain of Alaskan islands known as the ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-21 | Author:Juliet Lapidos

Someone had marked up Joyce’s famous riff. Above slooching, he wrote slouching? And he underlined governed by the women in it. Maybe not he. Edith? Helen? Such a funny habit, ...
( Category: Coming of Age February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-25 | Author:Sergio Pitol

CEMETERY OF THRUSHES for Luis Deméneghi The story he began writing on the ship and finished in Italy was not well received. Billie discouraged him immediately. It had no roots, ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:Kay Bratt [Bratt, Kay]

CHAPTER ELEVEN As the hours passed, Sadie’s mind played tricks on her. Several times she thought she heard voices drifting in from far away, only to sit up and hear ...
( Category: Mothers & Children February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elinor Lipman

21 The Reevaluation of Daphne Geneva’s patron, her wealthy father, once again came through with enough money to get the podcast off the ground against my strenuous but fruitless objections. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction February 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Karleen Koen [Koen, Karleen]

( Category: Genre Fiction February 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Chris Abani [Abani, Chris]

“Auntie,” Elvis said. “Long time no see.” If that was not quite the welcome she had envisioned after two years of absence, Felicia did not show it. “Elvis. You’ve grown ...
( Category: Literary February 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 1992-03-15 | Author:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain [Mountain, A Good Scent from a Strange]

RELIC You may be surprised to learn that a man from Vietnam owns one of John Lennon's shoes. Not only one of John Lennon's shoes. One shoe that he was ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 1990-09-26 | Author:Rabbit at Rest [Rest, Rabbit at]

“A mother,” Harry finishes for him, “who’s letting you rob her blind.” This gets to him a little, burns through the jittery buzz in his eyes. “I’m not robbing anybody,” ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 18,2019 )