Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Smith, Nicholas Sansbury [Smith, Nicholas Sansbury]

CHAPTER 5 JEFF and David huddled next to each other until dark. They didn’t sleep. They didn’t eat, and they only drank enough water to keep their throats from going ...
( Category: Short Stories September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]

* * * Want more dating games? Come into the wild world of modern dating in this brand new MF series of standalones, full of mistaken identities, meet cutes, trysts ...
( Category: Short Stories September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:AK Mulford [Mulford, A.K.]

Chapter Seven The sun should’ve been high in the sky, but a thick layer of storm clouds blotted out its golden rays. By the time Carys returned to Hilgaard castle, ...
( Category: Anthologies September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-08 | Author:B, Vonne

Chapter 4 Saturday night Mira “Okay, Mira, you got this. It’s just a simple get-together. Nothing you can’t handle. Besides, it’s Barrett’s birthday. And if you’re going to try and ...
( Category: Anthologies September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-02 | Author:Laurie R. King; Leslie S. Klinger [Klinger, Laurie R. King; Leslie S.]

BENCHLEY by Derek Haas Gerard James would not be attending his niece’s christening at the Southwark Cathedral on Sunday—an event that was to be exhausting but obligatory—because he had been ...
( Category: Anthologies September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:AK Mulford [Mulford, A.K.]

Chapter Six Once they caught Bern’s horse, they cajoled Prasus into riding atop the mare as the descent became steeper. The dappled gray horse was spooked, her ears turning wildly, ...
( Category: Anthologies September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-03 | Author:Sanderson, Brandon [Sanderson, Brandon]

ANNOTATIONS PART ONE: MATISSE All right, now the annotation. This story actually has a very interesting backstory. If we flash back to January 2006, we find me having been dating ...
( Category: Short Stories September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Stuart, Anne & Leonard, Tina & Lennox, Marion [Stuart, Anne & Leonard, Tina & Lennox, Marion]

IN THE NIGHT Jean awakened, and realized Sam wasn’t in bed with her. She couldn’t see much in the dark, but she could see him silhouetted near the window. “What ...
( Category: Anthologies September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:unknow

'Forgive me.' He brought her hand to his lips, looking at her face and noticing a small black crescent on her cheek where the tooth had gone into it. He ...
( Category: Anthologies September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Slaughter, Karin [Slaughter, Karin]

Chapter Eight Charlie drove through downtown Atlanta. The city had changed so much since the first time he’d stepped foot on the streets. All the roads were paved. There were ...
( Category: Anthologies September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Smith, Nicholas Sansbury [Smith, Nicholas Sansbury]

“It had to have been a Reaver,” Dohi said. “That’s why I can’t find tracks. It must have swooped down and grabbed Stevenson when we were inside searching.” Team Ghost ...
( Category: Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-27 | Author:Scalzi, John [Scalzi, John]

It is reasonable to wonder what it’s like to spend hundreds of thousands of years in the blank nothingness of space, surrounded by absence. I imagine humans trying to contemplate ...
( Category: Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Schlink, Bernhard [Schlink, Bernhard]

8 I couldn’t watch the engine and the black smoke, but I was listening to the grinding noise. Till it stopped. At that moment a sigh ran through the plane, ...
( Category: Anthologies September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-29 | Author:Smith, Alexander McCall [Smith, Alexander McCall]

“The man who marries her will have to give me lots of cattle,” went on the father. “How many?” asked Kumalo. “I am sure that I will have that many.” ...
( Category: Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:King, Stephen & Bachman, Richard [King, Stephen & Bachman, Richard]

…Minus 056 and COUNTING… Two days passed. Richards played his part well—that is to say, as if his life depended on it. He took dinner at the hotel both nights ...
( Category: Short Stories September 14,2024 )