Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2018-10-04 | Author:John Metcalf

THE YEARS IN EXILE Although it is comfortable, I do not like this chair. I do not like its aluminum and plastic. The aluminum corrodes, leaving a roughness on the ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Alexis Adaire [Adaire, Alexis]

5 Mason and I sit across from each other at a small table at Millay’s Pub, the closest bar to Rock Out. We left as soon as we got some ...
( Category: Holidays March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Crescent

Chapter Six At first, Theo didn’t know what to do. With Ruby’s hand on him, he couldn’t even think. This was what he’d been wanting for so long, and now ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Larry Dark

Leaving the Queue At 4:30 a.m. Pheko and Temba are still twenty or so people from the clinic entrance. Temba is sleeping steadily now, his arms and legs limp, his ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-25 | Author:Sam Savage

Wallflower He had never learned to play anything, not a Jew’s harp, not a ukulele, he couldn’t carry even a simple tune, and the funny thing was, he didn’t know ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-25 | Author:Mary Robison

14 In Jewel I COULD BE GETTING MARRIED soon. The fellow is no Adonis, but what do I care about that? I’d be leaving my job at the high school. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Ed Gorman

The room was as bleak as he’d expected. Face white, eyes shrunken, Patsy lay in bed, looking out the window. She glanced at Harry, didn’t seem to recognize him. “How ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Djuna Barnes [Djuna Barnes]

August eighteenth: Today I walked about the outhouses and went down to examine the pump. I saw Elda coming around from the lilac bushes, smiling out of her large ox-eyes, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ed Gorman [Gorman, Ed]

"Good thing you got back here when you did," the man with the gun said. "I was just about to waste her." "Spare me the macho crap, all right?" I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-13 | Author:Mary Robison

MINDY WAS IN A BEAN-BAG CHAIR IN THE CORNER, loading film into her camera. “You know, I bought this camera with money I won in the football pools,” she said. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Honore de Balzac

END OF VOLUME ONE THE SECOND TEN TALES (Continued) THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON WHEN, for the last time, came Master Francis Rabelais to the court of ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Means

EL MORRO You see, some goddess or something lived in this lake, back when it was freshwater, and then she got tired of the place and fled north and took ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-12 | Author:Erin McGraw

Nobody Happy When I was a teenager, I heard a woman propose to a man in the parking lot of Ralphs grocery store. It was spring and they were sitting ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 24,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-16 | Author:Lesley Jones [Jones, Lesley]

Chapter Nineteen I wake to a dark bedroom and an empty bed. I stretch and look around for a clock so I can see what the time is. My body ...
( Category: Anthologies March 24,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-22 | Author:Em Brown [Brown, Em]

Chapter Nine WHY HAD HE KISSED HER? Gertie wondered as she pulled out a diaphanous chemise to wear to Madame Botreaux’s later that evening. It had been two days since ...
( Category: Anthologies March 24,2019 )