Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, mobi | | 1994-05-01 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

In the end it was the local doctor who guessed what was wrong. “What you’ve got,” he said, “is a very rare disease called Back-to-Front Dyslexia. It is very common ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

fishermen won’t have nothing but lug worms. And of course there’s coloured maggots. Ordinary maggots are white, but you get them all sorts of different colours by feeding them special ...
( Category: Humorous September 29,2014 )
epub |por | 2011-09-07 | Author:Machado de Assis [Assis, Machado de]

—Cala a boca, tolo! Benedita, olha aí do lado esquerdo; não parece que a costura está um pouco enviesada? A risca azul não segue até abaixo; está muito feio assim; ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |por | 2011-09-07 | Author:Machado de Assis [Assis, Machado de]

Florindo, se referisse o gesto e a frase ao doutor do bilhete, talvez o fizesse arrepender da canseira. Nem pensou nisso; ajudou o senhor a preparar-se para dormir, ouviu as ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |por | 2010-12-10 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

gos por ano, nas férias, caminhava entre Gregor e a mãe; andavam bem devagar, o pai ainda mais vagarosamente do que eles, abafado dentro do velho sobretudo, ar-rastando-se laboriosamente com ...
( Category: Classics September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Crocuses are up at the old house; daffodils bloom at the new. The children who had lived in the new house before us left Superballs under the radiators for us ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

“What’s a ‘misunderstanding’?” “I said, I don’t care to discuss it now.” “Fuck that! You tell me, Mom.” She winced. She pushed past him. She was headed for the stairs, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Craig Clevenger [Clevenger, Craig]

TWELVE When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people ...
( Category: Psychological September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Aimee Bender [Bender, Aimee]

Two teenagers were standing on a street corner. They were both wearing the hot new pants and both had great new butts, discovered on their bodies, a gift from the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

SOPHIE and Ian had bought corn at a roadside stand. It was for dinner. Plans had changed—they weren’t leaving till morning. And they had bought a bottle of gin and ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Haruki Murakami [Murakami, Haruki]

—translated by Jay Rubin GREETINGS, The winter cold diminishes with each passing day, and now the sunlight hints at the subtle scent of springtime. I trust that you are well. ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle [Boyle, T. Coraghessan]

After Gretchen had climbed into her car and the car had slid through the gate and vanished down the street, Nisha sprawled out on the grass and lifted her face ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Laura Furman [Furman, Laura]

Adam Foulds The Rules Are the Rules He would have to begin any minute now; everyone else was there: the half-dozen dads on each sideline, the boys shoaling up and ...
( Category: Satire September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

4 I dreamed that X wrote me a letter. It was all done in clumsy block printing and I thought, that’s to disguise his handwriting, that’s clever. But I had ...
( Category: Anthologies September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

springs, mattress, headboard, in his confused dreams he wandered not knowing where he was, or how old; on foot in a childhood memory of Minnesota, or on idge oad above ...
( Category: Vampires September 29,2014 )