Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | | Author:The Fiction Collection

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love’s as good as soma.” The secret organ was playing a ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Donaldson, Stephen R. [Donaldson, Stephen R.]

The Woman Who Loved Pigs Fern loved pigs, but in all the village of Sarendel-on-Gentle she may have been the only woman who did not own one. The Gentle’s Rift ...
( Category: Fantasy September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Carly Phillips

CHAPTER SIX Luke didn’t have to guess what Alexa wanted or how she was feeling. She wore her heart on her sleeve, her feelings on her face. And when she ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Hardin, Jude [Hardin, Jude]

6 I woke up with the worst headache of my life. I rolled to my left and started coughing, every exhalation another dagger in my skull. I tried to reach ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:Matthew Derby [DERBY, MATTHEW]

Two We lost our daughter in the new mall. Condescendingly overdesigned and implemented, it seemed the last place a person could disappear into. The wide, carpeted aisles and glass panels ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-05 | Author:Doyle, Arthur Conan [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

Lee Conrey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 4, 1914 “The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it,” said Holmes. “I give you my word that for three days ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Swank, Denise Grover [Swank, Denise Grover]

CHAPTER FOUR Manteo had been missing from the village for the entire day. The colony had noticed his absence and decreed him a coward and a traitor. Ananias knew the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Fast

14 The Wound Max Gaffey always insisted that the essence of the oil industry could be summed up in a simple statement: the right thing in the wrong place. My ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-29 | Author:Shaw, Rebecca [Shaw, Rebecca]

Chapter 12 Muriel pressed her costume with loving care. She’d worn the same one for four years now. It was made from an old brown coat of her mother’s. Every ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-26 | Author:Margaret Weis [WEIS, MARGARET]

The Duke came late that afternoon, much sooner than he was expected. He demanded the tribute. The Count refused, of course. There was the usual challenge to come out of ...
( Category: Fantasy September 1,2017 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Gay, William [Gay, William]

Closure and Roadkill on the Life’s Highway RAYMER HAD BEEN working at the housing project for more than a month, and during this time the little old man had consistently ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Brenda Novak & Jill Shalvis & Alison Kent

CHAPTER FIVE “MELISSA.” Rose stood up and smoothed her sundress, showing off her still-fit dancer’s body. “I hope you don’t mind, I just wanted to help.” “Actually, I—” Do mind. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 1,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Serling, Rod [Serling, Rod]

The Big, Tall Wish In this corner of the universe, in a shabby, sparsely furnished bedroom inside an aging and decrepit brownstone tenement, stood a prize fighter named Bolie Jackson, ...
( Category: Fantasy September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]

WE BUILD CHURCHES, INC. Across the frozen rice fields the brown North Korean hills were streaked with ice and pocked with craters from our 105s. It was cold and bright, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Andrew Vachss [Vachss, Andrew]

PROFILE A Cross Story 1 “This one is mine,” the girl said, as her fingers danced over an ergonomic keyboard with an attached wrist cushion. Her posture was boarding-school perfect: ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 1,2017 )