Short Stories & Anthologies
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1989-07-16 | Author:Dashiell Hammett

Two yellow taxicabs were at the corner-stand to which Spade went. Their chauffeurs were standing together talking. Spade asked: “Where’s the red-faced blond driver that was here at noon?” “Got ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2006-11-09 | Author:Elmore Leonard

“But a bet like that—how could you fall into it? You know he’d have a pony to outstrip yours.” “Well, that was the chance I had to take.” They rode ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1965-09-15 | Author:Flannery O'Connor

The Lame Shall Enter First Sheppard sat on a stool at the bar that divided the kitchen in half, eating his cereal out of the individual pasteboard box it came ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Martin Amis

“Hey. Hey! Ain’t no damn use you sneaking out like that. Have you read my novel yet?” “Yes,” said Rodney. Rodney said Yes, not because it was true or anything ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-07 | Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon & Kresley Cole & Jaid Black

Later that afternoon, once the morning sickness had securely passed, Sofia and Johen took a mine car to a docking station on the far side of Hannu, where Johen’s parents ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-17 | Author:Colm Tóibín

Over supper, while Nuria was upstairs, having taken the children to bed, and there was a strained silence at the table, Carme mentioned that she thought she might drive into ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-06-14 | Author:John Updike

His sister. He has always blamed himself somehow. If he had been more pleasing to Dad he wouldn't have left and Mom wouldn't have gotten drunk and it wouldn't have ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1995-01-15 | Author:Daniel Quinn

6 “So, what have we discovered here?” “We’ve discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its ...
( Category: Magical Realism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:William Trevor

Sacred Statues They would manage, Nuala had always said when there had been difficulties before. Each time it was she who saw the family through: her faith in Corry, her ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Robert Silverberg

This is all very unfortunate. Com Sherwin had seemed steady as a rock. An easy-going rock, you might even say. Ten light years distance from Earth is a long thin ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:William Trevor

‘I think I’ll pay them. Simplest, that would be.’ With her right hand on the newel of the banister, about to ascend the stairs, Alicia stared in disbelief at her ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Robert E. Howard

Bran dismounted and walked forward, dazed by bewilderment. The moat was filled in places by fallen stones and broken pieces of mortared wall. He crossed over and came among the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

That evening, next day and for several days, I disliked Lucy. I made a story for all who knew him, of Roger’s dinner party, leaving the impression that this was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 6 Danger It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already been appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding McGinty as Bodymaster, ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 2004-01-15 | Author:Stephen King

X No conté todo aquello al señor Sharpton, pero sí le conté lo que quería saber sobre Skipper; había decidido que podía confiar en él. Quizá esa parte secreta de ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )