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Ghosts by Lisa Morton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lisa Morton [Morton, Lisa]

The Japanese follow Buddhist tradition in believing that a spirit takes 49 days (the sacred number seven, squared) to cross over to anoyo, the other world; during that time, the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction July 29,2018 )
Hauntings by Vernon Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Vernon Lee

* * * 4 From that moment I began to assume a certain interest in the eyes of Mrs. Oke; or rather, I began to perceive that I had a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction July 29,2018 )
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
mobi |eng | | Author:Giovanni Boccaccio [Boccaccio, Giovanni]

* * * THE FOURTH STORY [Day the Fifth] RICCIARDO MANARDI, BEING FOUND BY MESSER LIZIO DA VALBONA WITH HIS DAUGHTER, ESPOUSETH HER AND ABIDETH IN PEACE WITH HER FATHER ...
( Category: Short Stories July 27,2018 )
Greasy Lake & Other Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle [Boyle, T. Coraghessan]

Sadly, however, unity and harmony are not the way of the world, and no leader, no matter how visionary—not Napoleon, not Caesar, not Mohammed, Louis XVI, Jim Jones, or Jesus ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies July 27,2018 )
The Lone Pilgrim: Stories by Colwin Laurie
mobi |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Colwin, Laurie [Colwin, Laurie]

We got our news about Delia’s father from upperclassmen whose sisters, now in college or married, had (or had friends who had) spent afternoons with him. We learned that he ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies July 26,2018 )
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Beginners by Raymond Carver
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]

ALSO BY RAYMOND CARVER CALL IF YOU NEED ME Call If You Need Me traces the arc of Carver’s career, not in the widely anthologized stories that have become classics, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies July 25,2018 )
Ground Zero, Nagasaki by Yuichi Seirai
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Yuichi Seirai

SHELLS When I found the seashell by my pillow this morning, my first reaction was one of relief: maybe now they’ll believe me at last. The small, round object on ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction July 25,2018 )
Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Hamid Mohsin
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Hamid, Mohsin [Hamid, Mohsin]

POLITICS 8 The Usual Ally Divided We Fall After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn? The Usual Ally I REMEMBER, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 20,2018 )
Inked by Karen Chance
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Karen Chance [Chance, Karen]

A photographer stood on top of the bed, taking pictures. Another crouched off to the side, doing similar work from a different, more intimate angle. Intense men, with jobs to ...
( Category: Fantasy July 19,2018 )
Tall Order by Author
epub |eng | 2018-07-11 | Author:Author

Chapter 45 Present Day, London C harlotte Button had long been a fan of the J Sheekey seafood restaurant in Covent Garden and appreciated the fact that Patsy Ellis had ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies July 19,2018 )
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
mobi |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Terry Bisson

THE TOXIC DONUT Hi, I'm Ron, the Host's Chief Administrative Assistant, but you can just call me Ron. Let me begin, at the risk of seeming weird, by saying congratulations. ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 19,2018 )
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip Roth

Isaac Bashevis Singer [1976] Some months after I first read Bruno Schulz and decided to include him in the Penguin series “Writers from the Other Europe,” I learned that when ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 19,2018 )
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
epub |eng | 2017-07-17 | Author:Sara Gallardo [Sara Gallardo]

A LAWN AMONG THE GARDENS that run from Palermo to Recoleta there’s a square of lawn. One year the gardeners forgot to cut it. The grass grew at its leisure. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies July 18,2018 )
All That Is Left Is All That Matters by Mark Slouka
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Mark Slouka

1963 HE HEARD ONE CHAIR CREAK, THEN THE OTHER. A game was on the radio. “I’ve got to work on that piece today,” he heard his father say. “Good for ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies July 18,2018 )
A Lady's Book of Love_Daughters of Scandal by Louisa Cornell
epub |eng | 2018-05-21 | Author:Louisa Cornell [Cornell, Louisa]

*** The noise of chattering aficionados milling about the Great Room of the Royal Academy made conversation pointless. The tromp of boots and slippers on the wooden floors put him ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )

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