Short Stories & Anthologies
mobi |eng | 2013-08-09 | Author:Eric Beetner & Matthew Funk & Christopher Grant [Beetner, Eric & Funk, Matthew & Grant, Christopher]

Mark spent five days in the hospital. His face looked all puffed up like a dead fish on the shore after a few hot days. His right eye didn’t look ...
( Category: Anthologies November 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Bruce R. Cordell [Cordell, Bruce R.]

A Prayer for Brother Robert Philip Athans dagger falls 17Nightal, the Year of the Ageless One (1479 DR) The girl’s scream tore the cold night air like a knife through ...
( Category: Epic November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Margaret Weis, Tracy hickman [Heroes And Fools]

Epilogue. A Road Out of Xak Faoleen Sharmaen: If peace has triumphed by my plans, The fault is woman’s and is man’s. Since once the wars of hearts begin, True ...
( Category: Sword & Sorcery November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:John Donne

A FEVER 9–12 Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, go’st … Petrarch wrote that the death of his mistress had left the earth without a sun, and destroyed the ...
( Category: Love Poems November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Robert Browning

Apparent Failure ‘We shall soon lose a celebrated building.’ Paris Newspaper I No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since, I passed through Paris, stopped a day To see the ...
( Category: Renaissance November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Alan Bennett [Bennett, Alan]

‘HOW DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS?’ said Ollie. He and Geraldine were sitting side by side at the foot of the bed, his hand holding hers. She looked unhappy. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Anne Lamott

Mom Part Two: Nikki My mother’s ashes sat on the shelf in the living room, wrapped in festive paper, for a few weeks longer. I passed her many times a ...
( Category: Essays November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Jessica Fletcher

Chapter Sixteen You can never find a police officer when you need one, I thought, grimly searching the crowd for Mardling and Willoughby. I didn’t fool myself into thinking I’d ...
( Category: Cozy November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-28 | Author:Nisi Shawl [Shawl, Nisi]

“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Wayna.” Dr. Ops looked harassed and faintly ashamed. He hadn’t been able to tell her anything about the pains. He acted like they weren’t ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Egan

By the time he was thirty, Jude was weary. He became drawn to bridges, their tensile strength, the cold river flowing underneath. A resolution was forming under his thoughts, like ...
( Category: Anthologies November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Steinberg, Susan [Steinberg, Susan]

UNIVERSE One does not start with mourning doves. One cannot start with doves surrounding the bedroom. One starts with the trip to Sausalito, the quick ride over the bridge, the ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

The Woman Who Had Shells THE LIGHT IS BLINDING. The vast, flat beaches of Sanibel caught in the Caribbean noon are fired with a white belligerence, shells lying in such ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Justin Taylor [Taylor, Justin]

POETS They met at the mixer the week before their semester started. He seemed ambitious, a pleaser; she walked away annoyed. But it was a small program and she was ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Mary Gaitskill [Gaitskill, Mary]

The Dentist In Jill’s neighborhood there was a giant billboard advertisement for a perfume called Obsession. It was mounted over the chain grocery store at which she shopped, and so ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-13 | Author:Holt, Terrence [Holt, Terrence]

THE———FOUNDATION———Fifth Avenue New York, NY——— 14 May 19— Dr.—— Department of Archaeology——University——,——— Dear Dr.——: We regret From the King-lists of the chroniclers a name was stricken—as over the three millennia ...
( Category: Short Stories November 24,2014 )