Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2000-09-21 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke

All the Time in the World First published in Startling Stores, July 1951 Collected in The Other Side of the Sky This was my first story ever to be adapted ...
( Category: Anthologies September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Drago Jancar

TRANSLATED FROM ROMANIAN BY ALISTAIR IAN BLYTH [Montenegro] LENA RUTH STEFANOVIĆ The New Testament It was Veseljko’s first day at work, or rather his first night. Bedewed with sweat, he ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alan Heathcock [Heathcock, Alan]

The lounge’s sign was lightless. The girls and Calvin kept watch from the truck. Walt wore his new usher’s jacket, strolling the burnt and dripping shadows. Everything reeked of smoke, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

TALBOYS A Lord Peter Wimsey Story ‘FATHER!’ ‘Yes, my son.’ ‘You know those peaches of Mr Puffett’s, the whacking great big ones you said I wasn’t to take?’ ‘Well?’ ‘Well, ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths September 22,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Palahniuk, Chuck; Thomas, Richard; Widmyer, Dennis [Palahniuk, Chuck; Thomas, Richard; Widmyer, Dennis]

I worked at a greasy spoon called Gary’s Diner my senior year when I was seventeen. It was a dirty place to eat and work, but they were hiring, and ...
( Category: Anthologies September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:John Berger

When the woodcutters came to wash that evening, Danielle took Pasquale aside and said: I must talk to you. Next Sunday, he said. No! she insisted. Now! I can’t stay ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

She touches his arm. “Excuse me,” she says. “Did you just buy the contents of this unit? At the auction?” He smiles at her, opens wide his big blue eyes. ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane

That’s like us.” “Lost a piler men, they did. If an’ ol’ woman swep’ up th’ woods she’d git a dustpanful.” “Yes, an’ if she’ll come around ag’in in ’bout ...
( Category: United States September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Vollmann, William T.

2 Looking down from the yellowing ramparts into the shallow water, which stinks of algae and sewage, one can see the bottom, and sometimes spy the outlines of preying sharks, ...
( Category: Ghosts September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Ayelet Tsabari [Tsabari, Ayelet]

The following evening, as Rosalynn was spooning rice and vegetables onto dinner plates, Savta said, “So now you take care of Yaniv too, ha? Maybe you don’t have time for ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

THE SKY WAS DARK when Monk left the prison and made his way to the ferry, even though it was July. The ferryman was gray-haired and lean-faced. His powerful arms ...
( Category: Historical Mystery September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-21 | Author:Mark Haddon [Haddon, Mark]

Move quietly and hunt the squares and courtyards at the hour of dusk for squeals of laughter which betray the young girls hiding in the darkest corners. Then slip the ...
( Category: Love Poems September 22,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-26 | Author:Allinson, R.M. [Allinson, R.M.]

Lucy shook Jess awake. She muttered and pushed Lucy’s hand away, rolled over and pulled the doona over her head. “Come on, Jess, wake up.” “I don’t wanna.” “I know ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Donald Barthelme & Dave Eggers

At The Tolstoy Museum AT the Tolstoy Museum we sat and wept. Paper streamers came out of our eyes. Our gaze drifted toward the pictures. They were placed too high ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Angela Carter [Carter, Angela]

BLACK VENUS Black Venus The Kiss Our Lady of the Massacre The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream Peter and the Wolf ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )