Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | | Author:Maxim Loskutoff

AN AGGRESSIVE, ROTTEN, FECAL SMELL greeted us when she opened the door. “Jesus.” I raised my arm over my nose, and bumped the two suitcases over the doorsill. Abandoning them ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 4,2018 )
azw |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Westall, Robert [Westall, Robert]

Mike Watkins joined me in the waiting-room; with his notebook. ‘I suppose you’re after the name and address of the accused,’ I said, with a weak attempt at humour. ‘Only ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:William Cleaver Wilkinson [Wilkinson, William Cleaver]

The leaden good sense of Louis XIV. pronounced Fénelon the “most chimerical” man in France. The founder of the kingdom of heaven would have been a dreamer, to this most ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar May 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Harlan Ellison [Apellidos, Nombres]

The hurricane hit us with the force of a glacier thundering into the sea. It was a palpable presence. Winds that tore at us, flinging us back the way we ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 30,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-18 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

"Are you alluding to the present occasion?" "Well, you have an office of your own in this building, I believe." "I have." "Then why-" "I am at perfect liberty," he ...
( Category: Humor & Satire May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

13 * * * A LONG AND thoughtful silence followed his departure. The room seemed very still, as rooms always did when Captain Biggar went out of them. Bill was ...
( Category: Contemporary May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-04-06 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

-5- I gave him one of my looks. "Jeeves," I said, "I had scarcely expected this of you. You are aware that I was up to an advanced hour last ...
( Category: Humor & Satire May 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Bill Campbell & Nisi Shawl [Campbell, Bill]

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads. Girls were starting to take notice of me; I wasn’t good-looking but I listened and ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-08 | Author:H.M. Ward [Ward, H.M.]

* * * The trial ended a few weeks ago, and Sean Ferro is no longer the heir to a massive fortune because he walked away from it. That made ...
( Category: Anthologies May 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-05-25 | Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]

Chapter 3 THE BROKEN LUTE It is seven-thirty of an August evening. The windows in the living room of the gray house are wide open, patiently exchanging the tainted inner ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-05-25 | Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]

4. The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in ...
( Category: Anthologies May 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-05-25 | Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]

3. At twelve o'clock a procession of cloaks issued single file from the women's dressing-room and, each one pairing with a coated beau like dancers meeting in a cotillion figure, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Box, C. J. [Box, C. J.]

AUTHOR’S NOTE The story is fiction, but the photograph is not. In 1936, in one of the odder episodes of the modern American West, Wyoming rancher and noted photographer Charles ...
( Category: Mystery May 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-08 | Author:Dick Francis [Francis, Dick]

THE GIFT The Gift is the story published in Sports Illustrated's Kentucky Derby issue of 1973. The magazine re-named the story 'The Day of Wine and Roses', referring both to ...
( Category: Mystery May 25,2018 )
epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:anthology [anthology]

The forest is unusually quiet. He's preparing a new snare, the smaller work knife in hand, fingers moving with meticulous precision. He knows what he's doing, he could do it ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths May 25,2018 )