Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2019-12-05 | Author:Gogol, Nikolai [Gogol, Nikolai]

OLD-WORLD LANDOWNERS HOW I LOVE the unassuming life of those proprietors of remote estates who are known in Little Russia as old-world landowners and who, like decrepit picturesque cottages, present ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

ABSOLUTION There was once a priest with cold, watery eyes, who, in the still of the night, wept cold tears. He wept because the afternoons were warm and long, and ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-01 | Author:Gilman, Charlotte Perkins [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins]

The Girls of Herland At last Terry’s ambition was realized. We were invited, always courteously and with free choice on our part, to address general audiences and classes of girls. ...
( Category: Anthologies September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-04-13 | Author:Hendricks, Greer [Hendricks, Greer]

MARA I’ve just finished my shift at Bobo, the latest temp job in a string of gigs that I’ve landed since college, when my phone rings. Impulsively I answer the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Forster, E. M. [Forster, E. M.]

The Machine Stops PART I THE AIR-SHIP 1 IMAGINE, IF YOU CAN, a small room, hexagonal in shape like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Canin, Ethan [Canin, Ethan]

That weekend, in Columbus, Clive faced Ariel Sheshevsky for the state championship. Ariel was a slight, long-haired boy, with a leather headband in his hair and a derisive look to ...
( Category: Anthologies September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

IV This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sounds of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning. Betty and the camel joined the crowd, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Chevalier, Tracy [Chevalier, Tracy]

It was through that same tinny hallway phone one winter day that Teresa’s mother, always sensible and collected, called with the news about Papá. “Your father is in the hospital.” ...
( Category: Anthologies September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-31 | Author:Grisham, John [Grisham, John]

(6) 8:50 p.m. The buzzer sounds in the distance and Cody stands to see who’s coming. It’s Jack Garber, moving slowly, hands stuck in pants pockets, absent his usual stack ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Narayan, R. K. [Narayan, R. K.]

“In what way?” “Do you also hate to see me dance?” “Not at all. What makes you think so?” “At one time you spoke like a big lover of art, ...
( Category: Anthologies September 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-27 | Author:Okorafor, Nnedi [Okorafor, Nnedi]

The next agreed “evening,” we all had dinner after touring Kisha’s, Gracious’s, and then my ship. After all everyone had seen, no one was that impressed with my ship. I ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:O'Connor, Flannery [O'Connor, Flannery]

V KEEPING close to his side of the hedge, he crept through the dark damp grass toward the street. The night was close and very still. A light went on ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-17 | Author:J.E Daelman [Daelman, J.E]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR -:- STAR -:- Saturday morning, Meat has gone to the clubhouse to prepare breakfast, and help entice my parents from the UK to the USA. I don’t give ...
( Category: Anthologies September 6,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ananda Lima

{  } It was Tuesday evening again, workshop night, and the writer sat in the middle of the conference table, surrounded by other writers, or soon-to-be writers, which was how they ...
( Category: Anthologies September 5,2024 )
pdf | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Short Stories August 31,2024 )