Short Stories & Anthologies
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-21 | Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

11 A quick ring of boots from further up the corridor drew Miles's eye. He exhaled, a long-held breath, and stood. Elena. She wore a mercenary officer's undress uniform, grey-and-white ...
( Category: Adventure November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

SOMETIME BETWEEN the first and the second of the two major “crises” I have survived so far here in the hospital—if hospital it is—I was visited by Arthur Schonbrunn, Dean ...
( Category: Astronomy November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Harris, Charlaine

WHEN Hope reached her new apartment, she dropped her stuff and collapsed in a purple armchair that had been left by the previous tenant. She fell into a deep sleep ...
( Category: Vampires November 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Carolyn Haines [Haines, Carolyn]

13 A Man Feeling Bad Toni L.P. Kelner IT WAS NEARLY DAWN before the underfed cop finally escorted me to the station’s interview room, where the lieutenant in charge was ...
( Category: Crime November 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Charlaine Harris

PRISE DE FER ELLEN KUSHNER Ellen Kushner’s award-winning novels include the Fantasy of Manners Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword, and Thomas the Rhymer. Kushner’s own audiobook recordings of her ...
( Category: Anthologies November 21,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-11-05 | Author:Colette [Colette]

Things have returned to normal. [Translated by Herma Briffault] The Hollow Nut Three shells like flower petals, white, nacreous, and transparent as the rosy snow that flutters down from the ...
( Category: French November 20,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Samrat Upadhyay [Upadhyay, Samrat]

Dust rose inside the bus, tiny particles glittering in the afternoon sun. The bus lurched toward its destination, the temple of the Goddess Durga on the outskirts of the city. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 20,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Kelley Armstrong [Armstrong, Kelley]

SEVEN Our mutt’s name was Douglas Eaton. He’d offered it to Clay the night before, which was good, because Clay couldn’t ask without seeming to take a friendly interest. Pack ...
( Category: Short Stories November 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-04 | Author:Thompson, John [Thompson, John]

There Was A Before M. Leon Smith The fire crackled noisily, its damp wood spitting angrily. A circle of hastily placed stones kept the fire from spreading and were used ...
( Category: Anthologies November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Otto Penzler

Now it’s nearly morning. Allie and Billy are surely dead, raped and tortured and robbed, all because they thought life was a game. In a few hours the men from ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Elizabeth McCracken [McCracken, Elizabeth]

In earlier years, Sylvia had been a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other person. When disasters happened (her mother had taught her) you strode firmly in the opposite direction, because calamity followed catastrophe followed disaster. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Delia Sherman [Sherman, Delia]

“Ooh, listen to the green-eyed monster,” Silver cooed. “Don’t be jealous, honey. Ophelia’s the best. Nobody understands plants like Ophelia.” “I’m not jealous,” I said with dignity. “I’m wistful. There’s ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stuart Dybek

The Caller Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else. —Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul The phone is ringing in the crummy downstairs ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-18 | Author:Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott

Book Two Chapter One 1 Laura Whitstable looked affectionately through the windows of the Airways bus at the familiar streets of London. She had been away from London a long ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Tony Earley

Yard Art SHE LIVED ALONE NOW, in a big house in Brentwood bought with the royalties of a bad country music song her husband had sung. When her husband moved ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )