Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Anna Leventhal

Frenching the Eagle We close our eyes. It is important that our eyes stay closed for the duration of the talk, because this is about finding a special space, and ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Jack Canfield

Boondocks. ©1999 Aaron McGruder. Dist. by UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Disappearing Strands Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Valerie Trueblood [Trueblood, Valerie]

The Stabbed Boy THE summer of the stabbing, he attended Vacation Bible School. Who took him there, along with his sister, who did not survive? His teacher, Mrs. Rao, from ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Tove Jansson

AN EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY WHEN WE arrived and Jonny caught sight of the big cars parked outside Grandma’s building, he said right away that he should have worn a dark suit. ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-11-22 | Author:Sindiwe Magona [Magona, Sindiwe]

8 Three children have come from my womb. Three claim me as mother. Three. But now, since your daughter’s unfortunate death, I have been called mother to so many more: ...
( Category: African November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Monica McFawn

IMPROVISATION The play was a success, and all the actors crowded into the green room, gasping and talking loudly, still projecting as if on stage, their individual voices flung over ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:James Newman Benefit Anthology

Chapter Four: Faith They stood in the darkness and stared together at the skies. The clouds were low enough to damned near touch and the wind was blowing steadily from ...
( Category: Anthologies November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Elizabeth Taylor,Margaret Drabble

“Enjoying yourself?” Rhoda’s father asked her later, as they danced a foxtrot together. “I dare say this is the part of the evening that appeals to you—not all those long-winded ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Sterling, Bruce [Sterling, Bruce]

DEEP EDDY The Continental gentleman in the next beanbag offered “Zigaretten?” “What’s in it?” Deep Eddy asked. The gray-haired gentleman murmured something: polysyllabic medical German. Eddy’s translation program crashed at ...
( Category: Anthologies November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Connelly, Michael

Amanda’s father called, asking her to check in on her mother while he and the boys were at the fight. So much for male leadership in a crisis. When the ...
( Category: Anthologies November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Julio Cortazar [Cortázar, Julio]

AT YOUR SERVICE For some time now it’s been a problem lighting the fire. The matches are not as good as they used to be, now you have to hold ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese November 23,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Laird Barron & Michael Kelly

Anderson was frying two steaks for himself—wanting to use up whatever he had in his fridge before a power loss descended, rather than have to throw food away later—when peripherally ...
( Category: Anthologies November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Antrim

HE KNEW When he felt good, or even vaguely a little bit good, and sometimes even when he was not, by psychiatric standards, well at all, but nonetheless had a ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Chris Adrian

I hate adult hospitals, and adult medicine, and adult patients. I could not wait to get away from them in medical school, from their aching lower backs and chronic depression ...
( Category: Short Stories November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Burgess, Thornton W. [Burgess, Thornton W.]

BOOMER THE NIGHTHAWK Look for him in the air late in the afternoon. Peter shook his head. "I've seen him on the ground," said he, "but I never have seen ...
( Category: Birds November 23,2014 )