Short Stories & Anthologies
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

A Dreadful Gurgle Have you ever woken up in the night to find someone in your bed who wasn’t supposed to be there? Well, it happened to me when I ...
( Category: Occult February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-02-01 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

11 THE ZIGZAG WALK ncle Ken always maintained that the best way to succeed in life was to zigzag. 'If you keep going off in new directions,' he declared, 'you ...
( Category: Anthologies February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

5. The Glacier It was a fine sunny morning when we set out to cover the last seven miles to the glacier. We had expected this to be a stiff ...
( Category: Anthologies February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Up at Sisters Bazaar A few years ago I spent a couple of summers up at Sisters Bazaar, at the farthest extremity of Mussoorie’s Landour cantonment—an area as yet untouched ...
( Category: Women Authors February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

THE DUENNA Marie Belloc Lowndes I Laura Delacourt, after a long and gallant defence of what those who formed the old-fashioned world to which she belonged would have called her ...
( Category: Women Authors February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

The Tunnel IT WAS almost noon, and the jungle was very still, very silent. Heat waves shimmered along the railway embankment where it cut a path through the tall evergreen ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-02-13 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

—————— * From The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, by W.H. Davies (1908). An Exotic Figure in Moscow By Alexander Woollcott am just back from Leningrad and the manager of the ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-01-05 | Author:Jenika Snow [Snow, Jenika]

Chapter Seven Landry I’d been at Big’s house for the past five hours, my earbuds in, rock music playing into my ears. And although I kept busy, forced myself not ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Ruskin Bond April, 2005 Mr Swiddler's Flip-Flap AMBROSE BIERCE Jerome Bowles (said the gentleman called Swiddler) was to be hanged on Friday, the ninth of November, at five o'clock in ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-12-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

BUS STOP, PIPALNAGAR I My balcony was my window on the world. The room itself had only one window, a square hole in the wall crossed by two iron bars. ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Binya Passes By WHILE I WAS walking home one day, along the path through the pines, I heard a girl singing. It was summer in the hills, and the trees ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Binya Passes By BY RUSKIN BOND The author looks back on a love of long ago. 'It isn't time that's passing by; it is you and I…' While I was ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

The sun was setting when I awoke. I turned eagerly to Miller—it was time for us to resume the march—and saw only his face, the face of a dead man. ...
( Category: Anthologies February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

which, roughly translated, means— Ghosts, spirits, goblins, sprites, Away you fly, don’t come tonight, Or with great Shiva you’ll have to fight! Shiva, the Destroyer, is one of the three ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2002-01-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

From Indian State Railway Magazine (December 1928) 'There are more things—' A Tale of the Malabar Jungles by H.W. Dennys T WAS DORA TORRINGTON WHO STARTED THE SUBJECT AS WE ...
( Category: Short Stories February 14,2020 )