Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Richard Russo

Poison I’m not surprised to see that Gene’s driving a ten-year-old Volvo, that it’s a drab olive green, that it’s dirty and bruised-looking. And I’m not surprised that his new ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Jack Vance [Vance, Jack]

Chapter XI The ride along the Insse was pleasant. The Overtrend cars slid on magnetic cushions without jar or sound; through the windows the Insse reflected back the sunlight. From ...
( Category: Adventure March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-09-24 | Author:Banana Yoshimoto & Michael Emmerich [Yoshimoto, Banana & Emmerich, Michael]

6 Another Dream The dream was very real. I couldn’t even say for sure whether it was a dream or a memory. Though I had the feeling it had actually ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Michael Christie [Christie, Michael]

An Ideal Companion 1 Before he did a website for a local organic deli for dogs, Dan had never imagined himself a dog owner. None of his friends had dogs ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-11-07 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

One morning she didn’t appear, and I went on. In the cloakroom at school she said to me, “I won’t be coming in that way anymore because I’m staying in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

All this must have happened on a Saturday, as I said, because Nancy’s mother was home and Velma was there, who did not come on Sundays. By Monday, or maybe ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Joyce Carol Oates]

The Boathouse. The Roostertail. Davy Deezz Gent’s Club. Café a Go-Go. The Starboard. Good Times. First & Ten Sports Club. Mitch’s Tavern & Bowling Lanes. Cruising Perrysburg’s riverfront district as ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

1088 Park Avenue July 15, 1906 Dear Mr. Clemens, I believe that you are away in the country—“Monadnock”—which I have not seen—where you were so kind to invite Momma & ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

Three days of rain and the grounds of the Amherst Academy for Girls were sodden and treacherous underfoot as quicksand. Where there were paths across lawns and not paved walks ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Raymond Benson [Benson, Raymond]

As Q was giving Bond a guided tour of the Underground Q Branch Extension, M was back in her office at the MI6 Vauxhall headquarters reviewing the files on Gustav ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Richard Lange [LANGE, RICHARD]

CULVER CITY IS south and east of everything worth anything in L.A. We’re all between jobs here or between marriages, between runs of good luck. We wait out our slumps ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]

Chapter Four Amy jerked awake when Cornelia stirred in her lap. At the same moment, the front door slammed shut. Her mother was home. Groggy from the short nap, Amy ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

3. Men favour heroes who are tough and hard: tough with men, hard with women. Sometimes the hero goes soft on a woman but this is always a mistake. Women ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2009-10-03 | Author:Kate Chopin [Chopin, Kate]

XXVI ALCEE AROBIN WROTE Edna an elaborate note of apology, palpitant with sincerity. It embarrassed her; for in a cooler, quieter moment it appeared to her, absurd that she should ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:David Malouf [Malouf, David]

Lone Pine Driving at speed along the narrow dirt highway, Harry Picton could have given no good reason for stopping where he did. There was a pine. Perhaps it was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )