Short Stories & Anthologies
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Adiga, Aravind [Adiga, Aravind]

DAY FOUR: UMBRELLA STREET If you wish to do some shopping while in Kittur, allow yourself a few hours to wander through Umbrella Street, the commercial center of town. Here ...
( Category: Indian April 6,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Andrews, Ilona [Andrews, Ilona]

EIGHTEEN WILLIAM glided through the grove. The cypresses gave way to the Edge pines. Huge pine trunks surrounded him, black and soaring, like a sea of masts that belonged to ...
( Category: Anthologies April 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-04 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

THE NICE LITTLE PEOPLE It was a hot, dry, glaring July day that made Lowell Swift feel as though every germ and sin in him were being baked out forever. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-04-04 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

That night, in his hotel room, Laird put in a long-distance call to his second wife, Selma, in a small house in Levittown, Long Island, New York, far, far away. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jack Canfield [Canfield, Jack]

I barely looked at the house before I made an offer, then went to his office and signed some papers. If Joan were happy here, who knew what miracles could ...
( Category: Marriage April 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-02 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

Spikes ONE AFTERNOON TOWARD the middle of April, Kohn’s lawyer, her patience exhausted, called and said she was giving him one last chance. He was to come into Chagrin Harbor ...
( Category: Short Stories April 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]

Chair and bureau are the hieroglyphs Of some godly utterance wakened heads ignore: So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing, Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, ...
( Category: Love Poems April 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:James Byron Huggins [Huggins, James Byron]

Chapter 12 The Plain of Giovanni—three miles distant from the stronghold of the Waldenses—was black and swarming with a blanket of mercenaries, cavalry, cannon, and the militia of Piedmont. Over ...
( Category: Short Stories April 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:Green, John [Green, John]

I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks above various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only ...
( Category: Anthologies March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Brothers Grimm [Grimm, Brothers]

THE BLUE LIGHT There once was a soldier who had faithfully served his king for many years. But when the war was over, the king said to the soldier, who ...
( Category: Multicultural March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-31 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

It was the first assembly we’d ever attended, and it would also be the last. Our custom was to spend assembly time alone in the middle of the football bleachers. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-05-17 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

NIGHTCAP I WAS FILING deeds, or rather, I had been filing deeds all day, and now I was taking a break to rest my head on the corner of my ...
( Category: Short Stories March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1977-05-16 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

28 At night still, I’d lie in my bed, but I couldn’t believe I’d made it. In the period before sleep when people do their best thinking and from which ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 31,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Twenty-six I “Now, Elspeth, you’re quite clear as to what I want you to do?” “I’m clear enough,” said Mrs. McGillicuddy, “but what I say to you is, Jane, that ...
( Category: Murder March 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Mackenzie, Kasey [Mackenzie, Kasey]

Durra frowned. “You don’t think your grandmother—” I shook my head fervently. “No, she would never betray us like that. Her sister, on the other hand …” Her eyes widened, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 30,2014 )