Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:John B. Keane [Keane, John B.]

The Best Christmas Dinner As Wally Pooley cycled through the countryside his faith in the goodness of his fellow humans began to waver. Wally had not eaten a bite in ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cornell Woolrich [Woolrich, Cornell]

Killare caught him neatly between the first and the second positions, right where the split was, right where the joint was. Dade had the door open, he was in through ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cornell Woolrich [Woolrich, Cornell]

29 Quietly and deftly she moved about the dimly lighted room, passing back and forth, and forth and back, with armfuls of belongings from the drawers. Hughie lay sleeping in ...
( Category: Mystery September 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Dybek, Stuart [Dybek, Stuart]

Alms After Mr. Kronner’s daily constitutional down Eighty-sixth to the river and back, Mattie wheeled him under the scaffolding and into the lobby. Workmen had been refurbishing the building for ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Finney

• • CHAPTER EIGHT • • The same reception cop—after the same exchange of mutually admiring smiles and glances—found Marion’s name on a list of expected visitors. Mine wasn’t on ...
( Category: Fantasy September 11,2017 )
epub | | 2007-03-03 | Author:Greenberg, Martin H. [Ed.] [Greenberg, Martin H. [Ed.]]

The six tables had been set with six places each, and as the guests took their seats I saw that thirty-five of the chairs were occupied. They’d accommodated me at ...
( Category: Mystery September 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Martin H Greenberg (Ed) [(Ed), Martin H Greenberg]

The Yuletide Affair John Stoessel From the Author’s Desk Conan Doyle always cast Dr. Watson as the traditional narrator, but even his series included a few accounts by Holmes. Those ...
( Category: Mystery September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro [Ishiguro, Kazuo]

THE CAFE HAD CLOSED by the time I came down from the hills. Maggie and Geoff looked exhausted. Maggie said it had been their busiest day yet and seemed pleased ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-15 | Author:Gardner R. Dozois [Dozois, Gardner R.]

T. H. WHITE The Troll Born in 1906, the late T. H. White was perhaps the most talented and widely acclaimed creator of whimsical fantasy since Lewis Carroll, and probably ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Franz Kafka & Joyce Crick [Kafka, Franz & Crick, Joyce]

In the Penal Colonyi “IT’S AN EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS,” the officer said to the world traveler and, with a certain admiration, surveyed the apparatus that was, after all, quite familiar to ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Edna O'Brien [O’BRIEN, EDNA]

Monday We went. Effie greeted us and saw us into the drawing room, where Mrs. Coughlan sat upright on a two-seater sofa with gilt-edged arms. She wore green georgette and ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Mccracken, Elizabeth [Mccracken, Elizabeth]

In earlier years, Sylvia had been a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other person. When disasters happened (her mother had taught her) you strode firmly in the opposite direction, because calamity followed catastrophe followed disaster. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Coffey, Billy

7 Leah sat at the end of the sofa in his office. A ball of thick tissues rested against her nose but could not stem the tears. They trickled down ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Teresa Milbrodt [Milbrodt, Teresa]

Three You’d very much like the three-legged man. Your grandparents might have seen him when he was still performing in the sideshow, might have told you about his act in ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Liparulo, Robert

[ 41 ] Jagger and Owen weren’t able to get close to the nightclub entrance. Blue-and-white Opel Astra cruisers, light bars flashing blue and red, blocked it, and uniformed cops ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 11,2017 )