Short Stories & Anthologies
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Peter Watts [Watts, Peter]

In the old days I could have wished I was a psychopath. They had it easy back then. The machines only looked for emotional responses: eye saccades, skin galvanism. Anyone ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Mortimer

‘Rumpole! This is a surprise. I hope you haven’t come to ask me to give some axe murderer community service.’ ‘I have come,’ I said, ignoring the slur on my ...
( Category: Mystery November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Catherine Aird [Aird, Catherine]

Child’s Play Henry Tyler wouldn’t admit it, even to himself, but he was – there was no doubt about it – panting ever so slightly as he approached the Beacon ...
( Category: Mystery November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Mortimer [Mortimer, John]

Rumpole and the Little Boy Lost ‘Whoever did that,’ Dot Clapton said, ‘deserves burning at the stake!’ ‘I’m afraid they abolished that a few years ago.’ I took the Daily ...
( Category: Mystery November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:John Mortimer [Mortimer, John]

The sound of the words brought me some comfort, although I wasn’t sure they were entirely appropriate. And then she brought back my worst fears by saying, ‘I shall stand ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Laura Furman [Furman, Laura]

6. I was caught by Lieutenant Wei one night reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover. I was close to finishing the novel; perhaps one more night would do. I had bracketed every ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Jane McCafferty [McCafferty, Jane]

BROTHER TO BROTHER THE DAY HE FINDS A RAT behind a bag of potatoes in the kitchen cupboard is the day he calls his brother. It was the second rat ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Barry Gifford [Gifford, Barry]

Soul Talk “Mom, when birds die, what happens to their souls?” “What made you think of that, Roy?” “I was watching a couple of crows fly by.” “You think birds ...
( Category: United States November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Nathanael West [West, Nathanael & Lethem, Jonathan]

“Jeepers Creepers! Where’d ya get those peepers?…” She trucked, jerking her buttocks and shaking her head from side to side. Homer was amazed. He felt that the scene he was ...
( Category: Classics November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Erickson, Karen & Kwan, Coleen & Madsen, Cindi & Snopek, Roxanne [Erickson, Karen]

About the Author Coleen Kwan has been a bookworm all her life. At school English was her favorite subject, but for some reason she decided on a career in IT. ...
( Category: Holidays November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-27 | Author:Otto Penzler [PENZLER, OTTO]

Bendix lived in a cottage down the River Deben estuary. There, folk frolic in yachts. The pubs are always full of talk about force nine gales and compass bearings, all ...
( Category: Mystery November 9,2017 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Wendy Sparrow [Sparrow, Wendy]

Chapter Five They ate fish and chips down on the wharf and watched seagulls dive-bomb someone foolish enough to set their food down to take a phone call. Owen had ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-11-15 | Author:Terry Bisson [Bisson, Terry]

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 November 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

“Look at that!” a newsboy shouted. “It takes only six men to work her!” As Mose peered over the heads of the crowd, he saw that indeed the boy was ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths November 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:John Waters

RAPTURE “Iwouldn’t have known you!” Mrs. Muir spoke to her brother. “You’ve grown so tall, and you’re so deeply tanned. Oh, Kent, it’s really you, then?” Kent put down his ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )