Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:George Singleton

Pitching Pennies I expected a different downfall for my wife’s brother, something akin to murder or forgery. Long ago—and you can ask my groomsmen, because I told them all about ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Linda Lael Miller, Kat Martin, Mary Carter & Laura Florand

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Still putting your family last in your life, I see,” Raoul’s grandfather said dryly later that night, when Raoul had escaped outside for a breath of fresh air. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]

“I’ve already had my invitation to take a ride.” Tennant bent forward. With an unbroken swing of his arms, he swept a chair up from the floor into my face. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-02 | Author:Miss Read [Read, Miss]

Chapter 6 A CHRISTMAS MEMORY MISS QUINN woke with a start, and sat bolt upright in bed. Close at hand a church clock was striking midnight, and its pulsing rhythm ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

Chapter V WHICH CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF A MEETING BETWEEN TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS OF MIRGOROD Ivan Ivanovich had only just finished his household chores and gone out, as usual, to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:James M. Cain

Dead Man I He felt the train check, knew what it meant. In a moment, from up toward the engine, came the chant of the railroad detective: “Rise and shine, ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:D. H. Lawrence

THE WITCH A LA MODE When Bernard Coutts alighted at East Croydon he knew he was tempting Providence. "I may just as well," he said to himself, "stay the night ...
( Category: Classics September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Flannery O'Connor [O’Connor, Flannery]

You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Latrivia S. Nelson [Nelson, Latrivia S.]

Chapter 5 Davyd had waited as long as he could before reporting the Intel that he had received from the street. It had come in early that morning via a ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Poe, Edgar Allan [Poe, Edgar Allan]

THE TELL-TALE HEART TRUE!—NERVOUS—VERY, VERY dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-30 | Author:Baum, L. Frank [Baum, L. Frank]

Tik-Tok of Oz By L. Frank Baum Electronically Developed by MobileReference To My Readers 1: Ann's Army 2: Out of Oogaboo 3: Magic Mystifies the Marchers 4: Betsy Braves the ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Algernon Blackwood [Blackwood, Algernon]

John Silence: Physician Extraordinary remembered the warning to keep my thoughts steady, and forbore to give them expression. There was a step outside, and the figure of Colonel Wragge stood ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Waugh, Evelyn [Evelyn, Waugh]

III In the last week before the birth of her child, Lucy began for the first time to betray impatience; she was never, at any time, at all apprehensive—merely bored ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Arthur Schnitzler

I WAS TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD at that time, and it was my seventh duel-not my own, but the seventh in which I participated as a second. You can smirk if ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Serling, Rod [Serling, Rod]

The Night of the Meek It was Christmas. There was absolutely no question about that. Festive good will filled the air like the smell of maple syrup—sweet, sugary, and thick ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )