Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | | Author:Sylvia Day

* * * When I returned to our apartment shortly afterwards, Kate was sitting on her bed watching a Greek soap opera. ‘This is great,’ she said without looking up. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Garrison Keillor

2. DON GIOVANNI My bread and butter was the good people of Lake Wobegon, but writing about good people is an uphill climb. Their industriousness, their infernal humility, their schoolmarmish ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:Bob Blaisdell

WINGS (1920) Anzia Yezierska Sentimental but thoroughly touching, “Wings” recounts the hard luck of a 22-year-old Jewish immigrant. Working as a janitor for her uncle on the Lower East Side, ...
( Category: United States November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Garrison Keillor

15 Ravine From the ballpark I walked across the gravel parking lot and into the ravine where I spent so many afternoons back in 1950, when we first moved to ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Paul Jennings

5 Lehman pushed into the water. His mind swirled. His arms itched. Something was terribly wrong. He turned around and shouted back. ‘What’s going on? You’re not telling. I’ve got ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Paul Jennings

3 Flies, flies, flies. They hung around our house all day and all night. It was the smell of the manure. The smell attracted them. There were flies everywhere; they ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Paul Jennings

5 I held out the sweet corn in the margarine container. Snapper’s nose started to twitch. ‘What’s that?’ he croaked. ‘It’s your plant,’ I said weakly. My stomach was heaving ...
( Category: Humor November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Mike Ashley

II The Knot of Ribbon I think I must have fainted away, for presently I found myself on the floor, and for a minute I could not remember what had ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:E. L. Todd [Todd, E. L.]

Chapter Ten Taylor I was meeting Sage and his friends for a birthday dinner, and I was a little nervous about the evening. There would be a lot of new ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosamunde Pilcher

7 I awoke again, drawn from sleep by some subconscious alarm. I knew it was daylight. I stirred and opened my eyes, and a man was standing at the foot ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosamunde Pilcher

11 SATURDAY The weather forecasters had been only partially correct. The sun indeed was shining, but intermittent clouds blew across its face, driven by a western wind, and the very ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Douglas Draa

JOROGUMO, by Kelda Crich The windscreen wipers ticked like metronomes, pushing the snow to the edges of the windscreen to melt in crystalline deliquescence. Skerritt edged the truck through another ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Jolyn Phillips

Hanna I remember the day Hanna got sick. She cried all day, ever since that morning when Ma had to go and fetch Hanna at the shop because she wanted ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maggie Shayne

About Jeaniene Frost JEANIENE FROST lives with her husband and their very spoiled dog in Florida. Although not a vampire herself, she confesses to having pale skin, wearing a lot ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Alison Tyler

But one evening when I walked out of the theater after I’d done my public service, I found the ticket seller sweeping up the lobby. I’d rarely seen him outside ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )