Literary
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:J.F. Powers

Katie had called during dinner to say that Mrs Thwaites wished to see him as soon as possible, and so, when he’d got out of his surplice and cassock, and ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Victor Serge

Varvara reads aloud, smiling, looks at Katia’s picture, puts the poetry book down on the bread. “And yet I don’t understand.” Lightning-bolts, forever momentary. Come illuminate these bright recesses of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Alfred Hayes

20 SHE SAT very straight on the hard wooden bench looking toward the ring bright-eyed and eager. It was going to be fun. Then the musicians, in their white pants ...
( Category: Literary March 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Renata Adler [Adler, Renata]

The island had no trees. Rocky and bleak, with patches of living scrub and patches of burned and blackened scrub, it floated in the ocean like a worn-out Brillo pad. ...
( Category: Literary March 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

IT WAS STILL DARK IN THE morning when he woke with the cold. He’d piled dead weeds and brush to lay the mattress on and gone to sleep with his ...
( Category: Literary February 28,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-11-29 | Author:Mccarthy, Cormac [Mccarthy, Cormac]

VI Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I dont know why. Maybe it’s just that you dont grow up any faster than what you ...
( Category: Literary February 28,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

THE TWO HOUNDS rose howling from the porch with boar’s hackles and walled eyes and descended into the outer dark. The old man took up his shotgun and peered out ...
( Category: Literary February 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Cormac McCarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

* * * * * Malkina’s bedroom. She sits in a robe in front of the fire. The cheetahs are lying on the rug at her feet. She is listening ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 28,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

THAT NIGHT he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass and the wild-flowers out of the ground and ...
( Category: Literary February 28,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

There was no one in the Huddle save a few whores and weird Leonard, pale and pimpled part-time catamite. They were sitting at the black table drinking beer and sharing ...
( Category: Literary February 28,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

III Some time after midnight on the twenty-first of December it began to snow. By morning in the gray spectral light of a brief and obscure winter sun the fields ...
( Category: Literary February 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-10 | Author:Anne Bishop & James Alan Gardner & Anthony Francis

Chapter 9 A couple of days later, while the four of us were eating what the food slots in the Restorers’ food court had decided to offer for a midday ...
( Category: Science Fiction February 28,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

He told the time of day by turning his face to the sightless sun like a worshipper. By the sounds of the countryside. The coolness of the night, the damp. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 28,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Chris Beckett

Roundabout Two faces look out from a windscreen: Ralph’s on the passenger side, Eve’s above the wheel. They’re not speaking to each other. In fact they haven’t really spoken for ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 28,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

At lunchtime, Hal Incandenza was lying on his bunk in bright sunlight through the window with his hands laced over his chest, and Jim Troeltsch poked his head in and ...
( Category: Contemporary February 28,2018 )