Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Cave, Hugh [Cave, Hugh B.]

After that the policeman came. The policeman was Irish and block-shouldered and had a blunt-cornered face as fixed in its expression as the angular walls of the shanty. His blue ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-05-15 | Author:Daniel Stern [Stern, Daniel]

The impossible accident of making love to Lois Wan in the American Embassy, when anyone could have walked through the doors and discovered us. Finding myself seated opposite Gideon’s wheelchair ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Stephen Leather [Stephen Leather]

O’Reilly caught the 10.33 a.m. train from Waterloo station and found himself a seat towards the front in a carriage full of men in morning suits and women in long ...
( Category: Crime December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Nic Low

In the morning Umi’s gone, and she’s not answering her phone. There’s a pile of refugee-arrival printouts on my desk and a scribbled note: You were talking in your sleep. ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Vicki Lewis Thompson

Chapter 2 Noelle tried not to pay attention to the way his body moved, but it was difficult not to notice. Especially when she had to quicken her strides, forcing ...
( Category: Holidays December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

CHAPTER II Marya WHEN OLGA went to church she took with her Marya. As they descended the path to the meadow, both were in good humour. Olga liked the freedom ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tim Gautreaux

The Bug Man It was five o’clock and Felix Robichaux, the Bug Man, rolled up the long, paved drive that ran under the spreading live oaks of the Beauty Queen’s ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Leigh, Mara [Leigh, Mara]

CHAPTER FIVE * * * Someone carried me into the bedroom and gently laid me out on the bed. Unsure of my body’s position, I barely felt conscious and might ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Lurie, Alison [Lurie, Alison]

Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. Turning aside (in the light of the current political situation, an excellent choice), he continues “down long wiggled roads” toward what Seuss ...
( Category: Children's Literature December 27,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Tessier, Shantel [Tessier, Shantel]

CHAPTER NINE TABATHA “Go away,” I growl as I hear my doorbell ring again. I pull the covers up over my head and try to get back to my sex ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Auchincloss

I have neglected my journal for a week because of a disturbing episode which, through God’s grace, has now ended happily for most but not all. A group of slaves ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Kevin J. Anderson [Anderson, Kevin J.]

I spent Wednesday unpacking and making pies. I thought about last year and how I was making pies then, too, down at the mess hall. After cleaning my rifle. I’d ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Crystal Perkins [Perkins, Crystal]

Chapter 7 Quinn I spent the weekend with my parents in their hotel suite. I shut my phone off the whole time, because I didn’t want to see Zane trying ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Kathleen Founds [Founds, Kathleen]

Schizophrenics shuffled past, minds wrapped in terrible cocoons. Ms. Freedman didn’t seem to know what to do with her hands. “Do you have a cell phone?” she whispered. I handed ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Lori Foster & Dianne Castell & Lucy Monroe - Star Quality [Foster, Lori & Castell, Dianne & Monroe, Lucy]

Five Her eyes filled with tears, an inexplicable agony surfacing in their brown depths. “You said we would be honest.” Had he? Or had he said that his bluntness was ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )