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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa

GiichirōKitabatake THE GENERAL 1. THE WHITE SASH UNIT It was the grey of morning on 26th November 1904, in the thirty-seventh year of Meiji. The White Sash Unit of the ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
By the Light of the Jukebox by Dean Paschal
epub |eng | 2002-12-15 | Author:Dean Paschal

Where would she be now? At the moment it is very late, or early…as you like it. m., of course, would not be alone. Quite likely, she is wearing a ...
( Category: Short Stories December 19,2022 )
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by 18 Afghan Women
epub |eng | 2022-10-18 | Author:18 Afghan Women [Doucet, Lyse and Hannah, Lucy]

SANDALS Maliha Naji Translated from the Pashto by Shekiba Habib and Zarghuna Kargar Wisps of hair poked through a hole in her long red scarf. She came up close to ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
Bad Thoughts by Nada Alic
epub |eng | 2022-07-12 | Author:Nada Alic [Alic, Nada]

I like to break the ice with a new friend by telling them every traumatic thing that’s ever happened to me When someone says “that’s hilarious” instead of just laughing… ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
A Story Believed by Homer Kizer
epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Homer Kizer [Kizer, Homer]

8. "Did you find Dr. Macfarland?"asks Ben Gould, Jim's detective acquaintance. The detective, at Jim's request, has stopped by, letting Missy sniff his leg before mounting the porch step. Remembering ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 19,2022 )
Dividing Line by Mary Langton
epub |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Mary Langton [Langton, Mary]

Jim passed his test with flying colors. He enjoyed pointing out that the doctor said he’d rarely seen a better colon in a man Jim’s age. So pleased was Jim ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
Big Book of Orgasms by Rachel Kramer Bussel
epub |eng | 2021-10-12 | Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel

WHAT GREW BEFORE THE SUN Z. S. Roe “Will you tell them that I’m blind?” he asks over breakfast. We’re naked, sitting up in bed, with the drapes pulled back ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
A Sheltered Woman by Yiyun Li
epub |eng | 2015-06-10 | Author:Yiyun Li

The man of the house postponed his return; Chanel refused to have anything to do with Baby. Against her rules, Auntie Mei moved his crib into her bedroom; against her ...
( Category: Short Stories December 19,2022 )
Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
epub, azw3 |eng | 2022-04-05 | Author:Banana Yoshimoto

The reason I was too cautious, and rigid, and couldn’t see myself clearly, and was terrified of being happy—maybe it was all because I didn’t remember. But I didn’t know ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
Early Light by Osamu Dazai
epub |eng | 2022-08-16 | Author:Osamu Dazai

VILLON’S WIFE I was awakened by the sound of the front door being flung open, but I did not get out of bed. I knew it could only be my ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
Resume Speed and Other Stories by Lawrence Block
epub |eng | 2018-06-18 | Author:Lawrence Block

I WOUND UP walking all the way home. One of the car services had brought him, and he used a cell phone to call for a pickup. Five minutes, he ...
( Category: Short Stories December 18,2022 )
More New Tales of the South Pacific by Graeme Kennedy
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Graeme Kennedy [Kennedy, Graeme]

THE WAR YEARS ON 7 DECEMBER 1941, THE JAPANESE ATTACKED PEARL HARBOUR – the United States was in World War II. The massive American military machine built a fighter base ...
( Category: Short Stories December 18,2022 )
Home Remedies: Stories by Angela Pneuman
epub |eng | | Author:Angela Pneuman

“Maybe Mrs. Peel’s hips are too wide to hold the baby in,” Shiloh said. “No, no, no. Forget I said anything. That’s just something that happens sometimes for no reason.” ...
( Category: Anthologies December 18,2022 )
Herstories. an Anthology of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers by Michael M. Naydan
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Naydan [Michael M. Naydan]

* A reference to Matthew VI: 27 from the Sermon on the Mount: “Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” The immediately following paragraph of ...
( Category: Anthologies December 18,2022 )
Best Bi Short Stories by Sheela Lambert
epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:Sheela Lambert

Glossary Fundament: Rear end, butt Mushroom (slang): Nouveau riche, upstart (analogy of someone who springs up overnight from the muck, like fungus) Plant someone a facer (boxing slang): To punch ...
( Category: Anthologies December 18,2022 )

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