Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2020-12-28 | Author:Anne Carson [Carson, Anne]

voice of wind in pines makes the solitude familiar who will do such waking for each dawn? Sogi Mountains: We have come over the mountains of León. It takes a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Jim Butcher

COLD CASE I really enjoyed writing, in the previous tale, from Molly’s viewpoint at one of the lowest points of her life. I wanted to keep following her personal story ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Samatar, Sofia; [Samatar, Sofia]

4. In college, I tried to reconcile myself to my family deserts by reading Dakota by Kathleen Norris. I remember one sentence, quoted, I believe, from the Desert Fathers: “Everything ...
( Category: Fantasy August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-20 | Author:Michael Faudet [Faudet, Michael]

Paper Cuts You tore apart, my paper heart with words that I was dreading. Now all that’s left, of love unsaid, is dead and made for shredding. Like cursed confetti, ...
( Category: Poetry August 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:The Little Sister [Sister, The Little]

TWENTY There was the usual coming and going in the corridor outside my office and when I opened the door and walked into the musty silence of the little waiting ...
( Category: Mystery August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:akil kumarasamy

AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF SOUND YOU ARE A CONVENIENCE STORE OWNER, a taxi driver, a doctor, a terrorist, an IT worker, an exchange student. An Egyptian, a Pakistani, a Trinidadian, ...
( Category: United States August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Number of words, 320; necessary ones, 220: words wasted by the generous spendthrift, 100. In our day those 100 unnecessary words would have to come out. We will take them ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-12 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

“But this is a dull place, sir,” said Gabriel, lingering; “may no one share your watch?” He shook his head, and so plainly evinced his wish to be alone, that ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:DICKENS, CHARLES

(I don’t know why, but this fact of the Devil’s expressing himself in rhyme was peculiarly trying to me.) Chips looked up when he heard the words, and there he ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Dickens, Charles;

Hunted Down CHAPTER 1 MOST OF US see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-28 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

that they are quiet, and no light shines through the chinks in the shutters. As undistinctive Death will come here, one day, sleep comes now. The wicked cease from troubling ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Charles Dickens

“Is his memory impaired with age? It is to be expected now,” said Mr. Redlaw, turning to the son, and speaking lower. “Not a morsel of it, sir,” replied Mr. ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-23 | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER 10 Shabby-genteel People THERE are certain descriptions of people who, oddly enough, appear to appertain exclusively to this metropolis. You meet them every day in the streets of London, ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-16 | Author:Miyuki Miyabe [Miyabe, Miyuki]

Thirty-odd years had already passed, she told me, since the event that occurred when Mother was sixteen. At that time, Mother was working as a maid for a kimono wholesaler ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 10,2018 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

PART TWO Not far from this great palace, where the marquis was making ready for the feast, there was a hamlet nestling in very pleasant scenery. The poor folk of ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )