Short Stories & Anthologies
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Huijing

No one observes this death. Nobody visits the faun, by the last train and the last bus, by cars standing at night on the verge, on bikes put askew against ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:Guran, Paula [Guran, Paula]

THE KING OF WHERE-I-GO Howard Waldrop When I was eight, in 1954, my sister caught polio. It wasn't my fault, although it took twenty years before I talked myself out ...
( Category: Anthologies January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Haggerty, John & Totem, Shock & Polson, Aaron & Yardley, Mercedes M. & Skipp, John & Mekenzie Larsen & Rhodes, S. Clayton & Pirie, Steven & Davis, Amanda C. [Haggerty, John]

• • • During the day the children of the city ran its streets while everyone else slept in safety with the daylight. The threw rocks through windows and they ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Machado de Assis

FATHER AGAINST MOTHER We come at last to a story by Machado de Assis in which a slave plays a central role: “Pai contra mãe.” Even in this story, the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Pancake, Breece D'J [Pancake, Breece D'J]

As she went down the steps, Reva did not look for the crushed tunnel of the mole. Instead, she made her way through clouds of gnats toward the river as ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

Florence Coombe Savagery Among the Black Islands A woman who was brought up on the South Pacific island of Norfolk and became a worker with the Melanesian Mission produced a ...
( Category: Ghosts January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

The Last Man of Letters It was a season of numerous discontents. The more acclaimed X was, the more the myriad imperfections of others offended him. The imperfections of women, ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Adam Bennett & Sarah Brett & J. A. Clark & Shawn Inmon & B. Johnson & Tabitha Ormiston-Smith & John R. Phythyon Jr. & Joseph Picard & Alan Seeger & Terry Schott & David Temrick & Ashton-Kate Wilson & Paula M. Wilson

“…be fine, just needs some rest.” “Can he go home?” A familiar voice asked. “Of course,” the other voice answered. “Just see that he gets plenty of rest and keep ...
( Category: Anthologies January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Mark Leyner [Leyner, Mark]

The next morning I wrote her a note: In response to your question—how well do we know Susan—it seems to me that the question should not be—how well do we ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Bradbury

THE SOUND OF SUMMER RUNNING LATE THAT NIGHT, GOING HOME from the show with his mother and father and his brother Tom, Douglas saw the tennis shoes in the bright ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-06 | Author:Laybourne, Alex [Laybourne, Alex]

Chapter 16 – A Little Bundle of Joy “If you don’t mind me asking, how far along are you?” Paul asked, looking at both Leon and Tracey, for they seemed ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy January 29,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Sylvia Plath

Day of Success Ellen was on her way to the bedroom with an armload of freshly folded nappies when the phone rang, splintering the stillness of the crisp autumn morning. ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Prunty, Andersen [Prunty, Andersen]

The Nowhere Room Anna Seifert sat in front of her computer, trying to work on a literary paper about the writings of Ambrose Bierce. So far, she hadn’t made it ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Oliver, Reggie [Oliver, Reggie]

To my darling Julia, with unfailing love, Julius. Smith looked up at Maddox, baffled. ‘It’s from Julius, not Uncle Joachim,’ he said. Dr Maddox merely nodded. Smith again examined the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-01-28 | Author:Louis L'Amour

In the kitchen, Kate Breslin had taken an old .31 Colt from her valise, and she slipped it into Ruth’s hand. “Only if the chance is just right,” she whispered. ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )