Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cornelius Ryan

On the flagship Augusta lying off the American beaches, Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley plugged his ears with cotton and then trained his binoculars on the landing craft speeding toward ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Lessing

The Antheap BEYOND the plain rose the mountains, blue and hazy in a strong blue sky. Coming closer they were brown and grey and green, ranged heavily one beside the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Shirley, John & Curran, Tim & Pugmire, W.H. & Price, Robert M. & Thomas, Jeffrey & Goodfellow, Cody & Henderson, C.J. [Shirley, John]

4 Prior to military service and before I accepted an appointment as assistant superintendent at the Madras Government Museum, I worked briefly under the direction of D. G. Hogarth excavating ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

Imagine, Francis later thought as he sat alone in his own kitchen, getting so upset about a form letter from a snake breeder. After all, it was only one of ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-12-26 | Author:David G. Hartwell [David G. Hartwell And Kathryn Cramer]

The cluttered, steamy, noisy kitchens of Stoessl House exhibited an orderly chaos proportionate to the magnitude of the preparations under way. The planned rebirth dinner for the paterfamilias had been ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass

She had only one more week left of treatment. Millions of patients had been through it before—they would nearly all call it the most physically grueling and spiritual thing they’d ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Williams, Joy [Williams, Joy]

There was still no coffee. She wasn’t going to waste her time looking for coffee when there wasn’t any. A moth was floating in the sheltie’s water bowl. This was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Shirley Damsgaard

A Time of Promise (This story is dedicated to John McConkey) From where he sat by the fire, he could see the snow falling softly and silently in the winter ...
( Category: Occult December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

the man who jumped into the water DURING THE ONLY SERIOUSLY bad year of his business, Charlie Hartz bought the old Berkely house and installed himself, Flossie his wife, and ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |ara, eng, eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Alison Moore

Static Wilfred takes the dirty teacup from the bedside table. Dorothy’s eyes are closed, but she is still awake, just resting. The gilt-edged, rose-print Duchess has seen better days. The ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Curtis

YEARS LATER I was awake late at night. I was doing nothing, alone, late at night, when I saw, beyond my window, down the block, a fire I can only ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Ysabeau S. Wilce [Wilce, Ysabeau S.]

IX. Thy Baited Hook Here is Hardhands, returning to the Waking World. His blood is mud within his veins, he can barely suck air through stifled lungs, and there’s a ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin McKinley

PART TWO THE HUNT had been quiet enough the last weeks while the Prince lay on his bed and raved; but on the day that the Princess joined them no ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Lackey, Mercedes [Lackey, Mercedes]

* * * The King still had hopes of arranging a suitable marriage for Lena, who was both the last surviving member of her highborn family and the King’s ward, ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:John Warner

They started showing up at work, one or two of them in the bathroom or the kitchenette. Norman wondered how they got past security. Everyone in the building was supposed ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )