Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:The Heritage of the Desert [Desert, The Heritage of the]

XI - The Desert-Hawk * TOWARD the close of the next day Jack Hare arrived at Seeping Springs. A pile of gray ashes marked the spot where the trimmed logs ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:The Border Legion [Legion, The Border]

13 * It was afternoon before Joan could trust herself sufficiently to go out again, and when she did she saw that she attracted very little attention from the bandits. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Ray Russell [Russell, Ray]

IX THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF Exactly,” said Lord Terry. “The Ripper’s killings, without exception, resembled the later Paris murders, and also the earlier massacres of Bluebeard’s, in that they were ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Robert Silverberg

HOMEFARING I had always had a sneaking desire to write the definitive giant-lobster story. Earlier science-fiction writers had preempted most of the other appealing monstrosities—including giant aunts (sic!), dealt with ...
( Category: Fantasy August 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Roald Dahl

‘Seventy,’ I said. ‘And do you mind telling me exactly what speed you were doing just now?’ I shrugged and didn’t say anything. When he spoke next, he raised his ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Chelsea M. Cameron

I had the cabbie take me right to Chloe’s place. I definitely didn’t want to be alone right now, and those damned lilacs were still at my apartment. I texted ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Stowe, Miranda [Stowe, Miranda]

Chapter Four Rhea had always best loved those fairytales where the handsome prince swooped in to the prone princess and gave her soft, delicate kiss on the lips to bring ...
( Category: Werewolves & Shifters August 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1853-01-01 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

* There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history. Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby's interment. But ere parting with the reader, let ...
( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Brenda Jackson

Fourteen The next move was hers, Adrian thought, holding Trinity’s gaze. She was obviously a mass of confusion, saying one thing and meaning another. He knew the feeling. He had ...
( Category: United States August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Mary Gaitskill [Gaitskill, Mary]

Time and again, the curtain parted: Served by stylish hostesses, we sat in ornate chairs, drinking martinis and eating caviar on toast. A lurid dream of music surged around us, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-27 | Author:Steven Pressfield

Cavalry need not work execution in the assault. Just break through. We can kill the enemy at leisure once we put him to flight. It takes five years to train ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-09 | Author:Eric Brown [Brown, Eric]

~ Twelve hours after the operation Sabine takes the sub-orb from Montreal and rendezvous with Østergaart in Rome. She is aware of a slight discomfort at the base of her ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John W. Campbell [Campbell, John W.]

Chapter VII Slowly they cruised back to Sonor, Arcot still engrossed in thought. Would it be that Venus would fall before the attack of the mighty planes, that they would ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Nathan Ballingrud [Ballingrud, Nathan]

She stood abruptly and walked out the door, slamming it behind her. The force of it rattled the windows. After a while—he had no idea how long—he picked up the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:John Joseph Adams [Adams, John Joseph]

"Michel," she said, "Oh, Michel!" And with tears brimming from eyes shaped like almonds, she threw herself into his arms. Feeling extremely superfluous, Joan stood back a little and glanced ...
( Category: Fantasy August 28,2017 )