Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2014-02-08 | Author:Kennedy, A. L. [Kennedy, A. L.]

Takes You Home HE WOULD HAVE preferred it if anyone else had been dealing with this, coping with this. This was the kind of stuff you dealt with and coped ...
( Category: Anthologies September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Díaz, Junot [Díaz, Junot]

Later it will all come back to you as a terrible fever dream but at the time it moved so very slowly, felt so very concrete. You take her to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-27 | Author:Corey, James S. A. [Corey, James S. A.]

[The image is of Elizabet Aldo. Her eyes are puffy, with bags under them as dark as bruises. She rubs her palm against her cheek.] ELIZABET: This is the third ...
( Category: Short Stories September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Chopin, Kate [Chopin, Kate]

Athénaïse I ATHÉNAÏSE went away in the morning to make a visit to her parents, ten miles back on rigolet de Bon Dieu.1 She did not return in the evening, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-03 | Author:Krauss, Nicole [Krauss, Nicole]

Amour I knew her when we were young, and then we lost touch for decades until I saw her again in one of the refugee camps. There are faces suffering ...
( Category: Anthologies September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Jewett, Sarah Orne [Jewett, Sarah Orne]

The Town Poor MRS. WILLIAM TRIMBLE and Miss Rebecca Wright were driving along Hampden east road, one afternoon in early spring. Their progress was slow. Mrs. Trimble’s sorrel horse was ...
( Category: Short Stories September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1946-01-01 | Author:Nin, Anaïs [Nin, Anaïs]

Lillian storming against her piano, using the music to tell all how she wanted to be stormed with equal strength and fervor. This tidal power was still in her when ...
( Category: Anthologies September 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]

(NOTE: The author wishes to give credit where due. The Yiddish words are mine, they come out of my childhood and my heritage, but some of the definitions have been ...
( Category: Short Stories September 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-11 | Author:Cohen, Leonard [Cohen, Leonard]

Signals “Drive along Westmount Boulevard, will you, Fred, since we have nowhere special to go.” “What’s along Westmount Boulevard?” “A house. A window I used to watch.” “Whose window? A ...
( Category: Anthologies September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Hamilton, Laurell K. [Hamilton, Laurell K.]

HOUSE OF WIZARDS This is another story about domestic skills being more important than magic. I have no talent for organizing a household. None. Over the years I’ve come to ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Cole, Courtney [Cole, Courtney]

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1904-01-01 | Author:Henry, O. [Henry, O.]

SPRINGTIME À LA CARTE It was a day in March. Never, never begin a story this way when you write one. No opening could possibly be worse. It is unimaginative, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1922-09-22 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

6 John stood facing Mr. Braddock Washington in the full sunlight. The elder man was about forty, with a proud, vacuous face, intelligent eyes, and a robust figure. In the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-28 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1926-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

"How?" "I'll arrange it--if you'll pull yourself together a little. This is Rags talking to you, don't you understand, John? I want you to sit here and not move until ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )