epub, mobi |eng | 1999-09-13 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Guerber, H. A. [Guerber, H. A.]

The Gladiator Condemned When a gladiator fell after a brave resistance, the people sometimes wished to save his life, so that he could recover and come and amuse them again. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Ruthie Knox [Knox, Ruthie]

Chapter Nine Amber kissed like two different women—confident and sensual one moment, shy and uncertain the next. When he skimmed his palm over her nipple, her lips parted and her ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Clark Ashton Smith [Smith, Clark Ashton]

Freeing itself gradually from the cypress-boughs, as if from the long, stretched fingers of witches, a waning and misshapen moon glared horizontally through the eastern window when Thulos awoke. By ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:Clark Ashton Smith [Smith, Clark Ashton]

THE SECRET OF THE CAIRN It will be said, by nearly all who peruse this narrative, that I must have been mad from the beginning; that even the first of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-19 | Author:Clark Ashton Smith [Smith, Clark Ashton]

THE CITY OF THE SINGING FLAME Foreword We had been friends for a decade or more, and I knew Giles Angarth as well as anyone could purport to know him. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Clark Ashton Smith [Smith, Clark Ashton]

VII Weeks and months went by and lengthened somehow into a year. The metamorphosis of the world had gone slowly on, though after a term of three months no more ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Hunter, Faith & Price, Kalayna [Hunter, Faith]

Madmen know nothing, but I know everything. Come home, Rose. I pushed down a bolt of recognition—and fear. That was a name I hadn’t heard in a long time, hadn’t ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:Akutagawa, Ryunosuke [Akutagawa, Ryunosuke]

THE MARTYR Even if one liveth to be three hundred years of age in excess of pleasure, it is but as a dream compared with everlasting pleasure. — Guide do ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:George R. R. Martin; Gardner Dozois

HE NEEDED A PHONE. NEEDED TO CALL CONOSCENZA. THIS COULDN’T WAIT for Cross to return to New York. Once his boss heard his report, Conoscenza would head for Chicago. Which ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Martin H. Greenberg

Two shots of slivovitz down that night, and still sleep would not come. Haunted. After an hour of this, Loren sat up in her bunk and turned on the console, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Must Love Hellhounds [Hellhounds, Must Love]

An hour later Raphael stretched and opened his eyes. His lips stretched in an easy smile. “Hey. Now that’s a beautiful sight to wake up to.” I leveled my SIG-Sauer ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman [Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy]

Song of Huma (Reprise) Through cinders and blood, the harvest of dragons, Traveled Huma, cradled by dreams of the Silver Dragon, The Stag perpetual, a signal before him. At last ...

epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman [Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy]

Denubis shivered. He wished the Kingpriest would not use that particular metaphor. Denubis detested spiders. He hated all insects, in fact; something he never admitted and, indeed, felt guilty about. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]

13 FROM THE WINGS, Mr. Traver cleared his throat to get Nick’s attention and tapped the face of his watch. “Looks like we have time for one last question.” Nick ...