Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Doris Lessing [Lessing, Doris]

Among the Roses Regent’s Park on a warm Saturday afternoon. With the crowds of people strolling among the roses went Myra, a middle-aged lady from Harrow, who had an expert’s ...
( Category: Short Stories November 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Doris Lessing [ Doris Lessing]

Two Potters I have only known one potter in this country, Mary Tawnish, and she lives out of London in a village where her husband is a schoolteacher. She seldom ...
( Category: Short Stories November 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Doris Lessing [Lessing, Doris]

Make a hole As deep will go The long wing feather Of an old black crow. Water and grain Go in together. Cover it well. Watch the weather. Now make ...
( Category: Short Stories November 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-31 | Author:Clive Barker [Barker, Clive]

Vassi’s Testimony (part two) “Of course I searched for her. It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. ...
( Category: British & Irish November 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-31 | Author:Clive Barker [Barker, Clive]

‘Thank you for the warning.’ ‘This job’s difficult enough without enemies, believe me.’ She attempted a conciliatory look, which Redman ignored. Enemies he could live with, liars he couldn’t. The ...
( Category: British & Irish November 10,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-29 | Author:Alan Dean Foster

A Fatal Exception Has Occurred at… As I have mentioned previously, the first story I ever sold (though not the first one to appear in print) was “Some Notes Concerning ...
( Category: Anthologies November 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

GNOSSIENNE LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR that I never attend literary conferences. I know that they’re held in art deco hotels close to legendary museums; that sessions on the future ...
( Category: Short Stories November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

* * * 1 Weapon used by Argentine gauchos which consists of several ropes tied together with metal balls at the ends. The Man Who Belonged to Me. Giovanni Papini ...
( Category: Anthologies November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | 2012-09-30 | Author:Joyce, James [Joyce, James]

GNADE Zwei Herren, die sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt in der Toilette befanden, versuchten ihn aufzurichten, aber er war völlig hilflos. Er lag zusammengekrümmt am Fuß der Treppe, die er hinuntergefallen ...
( Category: European November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-01-21 | Author:Sterling, Bruce [Sterling, Bruce]

GOLDREICH-TREMAINE COUNCIL STATE: 18-9-'53 Das Chaos widerte Constantine an. Es war ekelhaft. Evakuierungen waren eine widerliche unsaubere Angelegenheit. Der Andockhafen war von Gerümpel und Müll übersät: von Kleidung, Flugplänen, Inhalationshülsen, ...
( Category: Short Stories November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-23 | Author:Trisha Telep [Trisha Telep]

Kyle smiled to feel the familiar presence arrive at his home. “If I thought you were going to abuse the privilege of unrestricted entry into my home,” he said as ...
( Category: Anthologies November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Hogan, Desmond [Hogan, Desmond]

Life’s a single pilgrim Fighting, unarmed among a thousand soldiers. For his holidays Éanna Geraghty would go to Bachelor’s Walk in Dalkey. There was a swimming hole nearby where, before ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-04-27 | Author:David Moody [Moody, David]

He stood up, smoothed the creases out of his dark blue dress, and looked himself up and down in the full-length mirror to his right. God I look good, he ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]

* * * • Coir fiber. • Dirt from garden below the balcony. • Dark hairs, curly. No bulb attached. • Bit of rubber, black, possibly from sole of shoe. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

POSTCARD Yesterday afternoon, yesterday, I was going along the street to the Post Office, thinking how sick I was of snow, sore throats, the whole dragged-out tail-end of winter, and ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )