Short Stories & Anthologies
epub | | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE * * * Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sylvia Plath

Amazing how warm a gauze of nylon stocking is: just decided not to go bare-legged and suddenly stopped sneezing. If only Ted doesn't object too much to the noise, I ...
( Category: Feminist March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-12-15 | Author:Joe McGinniss [McGinniss, Joe]

"And I stepped into the bathroom, and I—you know, I really can't put that in there. You know, it's put in—in narratives. It's put into testimony. "So now, you know, ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

The husband of the woman from whom I rented my summer room played golf every weekend. On one of those August nights when no one can sleep and the sky ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

THE REMISSION WHEN IT became clear that Alec Webb was far more ill than anyone had cared to tell him, he tore up his English life and came down to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Marc Maron [Maron, Marc]

WTF #269 April 9, 2012 Marc: Do you find it weird that as we get older, there’s this whole element of, like, Wait, what happened to that guy? You know ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Palahniuk, Chuck [Palahniuk, Chuck]

The Lady A friend of mine lives in a «haunted» house. It's a nice white farmhouse in the country, surrounded with gardens, and every few weeks he'll call in the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-24 | Author:Robbins, Tom [Robbins, Tom]

The problem with Christianity is it’s the single most reactionary force in human history. I don’t even know what is in second place, it’s so far in front. And I ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

Such is our definition of Americanism and the American way of life. The American way of life has always been based upon the Rights of Man, upon individual freedom and ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * CHAPTER III. * * * It was for the elucidation of a mystery in one of these works that I first tried Mrs. Monarch. Her husband came ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf, azw3 | | 2010-07-05 | Author:Sedaris, David [David, Sedaris,]

Santa Land Diaries * * * This week my least favorite elf is a guy from Florida whom I call “The Walrus.” The Walrus has a handlebar mustache, no chin, ...
( Category: Playwriting March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Clifford Simak [Simak, Clifford]

"And a long time ago," said Orson. "Why do you say that?" "The dust. There isn't much dust in the universe." "And no one knows what it is. There is ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

By Bertram Chandler John Willis sat uneasily on the hard bench that ran along one wall of the Federal Employment Bureau. Now and again he tried to read the newspaper ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Kim Harrison [Harrison, Kim]

Million-Dollar Baby I like to tell people that I wrote Pale Demon to answer the question about whether anything was possible between Rachel and Trent, but when I got done ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-05 | Author:Kim Harrison [Harrison, Kim]

“It can’t be the boys. It tastes older than that.” He nodded, then motioned me to follow. We stepped into the shadows. It felt like we were stepping into another ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )