Literary
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Liu [Liu, Ken]

It means “to soar.” See that radical on the left? That’s me, tethered to the cable with a pair of antennae coming out of my helmet. On my back are ...
( Category: Literary March 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Hall

FILE FOUR COMPLETE RECOVERY Megan had been right; the first winter was hard. The refreshing coolness of autumn gave way to bitter cold and damp. Early December brought freezing rain ...
( Category: Literary March 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-27 | Author:Petronius, & Seneca,

Won’t you come back to life? Won’t you give up your womanly error and enjoy the comforts of life as long as you can? That very corpse lying there should ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 1,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

200 Ruling the seas that bathe her, north and south. Trust us as we trust you. We have the stamina For warfare, and we have the spirit for it. In ...
( Category: Classics March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:David Sherman; Dan Cragg [Cragg, David Sherman; Dan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Commodore Borland came planetside to meet with Brigadier Sturgeon and his staff. The two recon teams had been thoroughly debriefed—neither had brought back a captive Fuzzy since neither ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

3 Mrs. Mean seizes Ames’s arm, twists it behind him, rains blows upon his head and neck. He pulls away and runs. It’s to her purpose. She permits his flight. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Jules Renard

THE TOAD BORN OUT OF A STONE, he’s living under a stone. He’s building a tomb there. I often visit him, and each time I lift the stone up, I’m ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Enjoying yourself?” Rhoda’s father asked her later, as they danced a foxtrot together. “I dare say this is the part of the evening that appeals to you—not all those long-winded ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Braly, Malcolm [Braly, Malcolm]

At breakfast Manning asked, “Are you sure you’re all right?” “I may hit the sick line. In case they check me into the hospital, there’s something I’d like you to ...
( Category: Contemporary March 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Russell Hoban [Hoban, Russell]

23. William G. ‘Did Miss H. ever reach you?’ Harriet said when I came into the shop on Monday. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘she did.’ ‘I hope it was all right,’ ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-04 | Author:J.F. Powers

“A fellow like you might handle that end of it,” Mac said one day in the car. He had been talking about the store part of his dream and how ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

It actually took me a few minutes to realize that what these players were engaged in was basically the same game that in desperation I had attempted to play against ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Sybille Bedford [Bedford, Sybille]

The Merz’s had a family vault in Berlin. Again Julius travelled in a private railway carriage. One wagon-lits compartment, lined with flowers, held the coffin; in another Julius had his ...
( Category: British & Irish March 1,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

Up north, in Vermont, I knew two lonely men, furious with abandonment, shivering with ill-luck. One was left by his wife after twenty-five years and the other, after forty years ...
( Category: Contemporary March 1,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Stefan Zweig

It actually took me a few minutes to realize that what these players were engaged in was basically the same game that in desperation I had attempted to play against ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 1,2018 )