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Distant Worlds Volume 2 by Benjamin Sperduto
epub |eng | 2019-02-08 | Author:Benjamin Sperduto [Sperduto, Benjamin]

The theater’s main room reeked of melting solder and paint fumes. With so many bodies crammed onto the theater floor, there was a faint tinge of static in the stale, ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
XV (Fifteen) by Lana Sky
epub |eng | | Author:Lana Sky

For the second time in a row, I awake on my own. A hazy, dreamlike daze coats everything in a fog. As I blink up at a peeling ceiling, I ...
( Category: Kidnapping August 3,2019 )
VII (Seven) by Lana Sky
epub |eng | | Author:Lana Sky [Sky, Lana]

Chapter 16 “Have your run of the house.” What I first interpreted as a cruel joke turns out to be far more nuanced once I inch my way into the ...
( Category: Kidnapping August 3,2019 )
Head Count by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2018-07-30 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

I sat at an empty Blackjack table, chatting with a few croupiers. “How long do you think this head count will take, Ben?” one of them asked. “I know what ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Monarch of the Square by Mbarek Sryfi
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Mbarek Sryfi

Antonio He was sitting on the doorstep of the deserted club. As the sun moved to the west, it was still hot. His legs were spread-eagled, his pants hiked up ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 3,2019 )
Red Marks by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

It was dark now, after midnight. I leaned against a lamppost and studied the house. There were no lights on that I could see, and the driveway was empty. I ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Not Eligible For Rehire by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2018-10-24 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

Nothing else was found, and a few minutes later we all headed to the medical facility. Mark and I chatted as we walked behind the rest of the group. “What ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Chuck Klosterman

The Enemy Within She was not under arrest. They told her that at least twenty times. She was not under arrest, she was not in danger, and they were all ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Little Dramas by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2017-05-11 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

Henry Twilley. He would be in Stockport in two hours’ time, and he could feel his stomach tightening; what would he do when he got there? His parents would be ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Cod Beck by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2017-11-05 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

I handed Pat his pint and sat down, watching as he took a long gulp. He wiped his lips with his thumb and said, “That’s just what I need after ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Breaking Spirits by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2017-06-25 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

Leaving The Roundel after 6 p.m., I picked up some Szechuan chicken from the Chinese takeaway then walked home. I ate it in front of the TV, as I watched ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Horseshoe Bend by Glenn McGoldrick
epub |eng | 2017-11-05 | Author:Glenn McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Glenn]

It was almost dark by the time I got home. As I opened my gate, I looked back and saw him coming towards me. About one hundred metres away. Shit. ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

I, DON JOSÉ DE ABOS AND PAPILLA. His Majesty’s Notary for the Royal Revenue, and Register of this Province, and Notary Public of the Holy Crusade of this Bishopric, etc. ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
Dead Leaves, Dark Corners by Nicki Huntsman Smith
epub |eng | 2017-03-10 | Author:Nicki Huntsman Smith [Smith, Nicki Huntsman]

*** Three blocks away, a man reached into a box of copy paper, removed the top sheet, and stapled it to a telephone pole. His anguish could be seen even ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks by Elizabeth Alexander (ed)
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Elizabeth Alexander (ed) [Alexander, Elizabeth]

The colored people will not “clown.” The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak, Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory August 3,2019 )

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