Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |rus | 2011-04-29 | Author:New Orleans Noir [Noir, New Orleans]

Now all that beauty was submerged, replaced by debris and rainbow slicks of chemicals floating on the muddy water. The carefully placed objects and lush growth had become nothing more ...
( Category: United States June 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Del James [James, Del]

SKIN DEEP The red-and-white neon flickered spastically, making a crackling electrical sound, a telltale symptom of a short life expectancy. It seemed as though nothing around this part of town ...
( Category: Mystery June 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-04-04 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Providence Rose had a dream about Anna. This was after she had gone away and left Anna behind. She dreamed she met Anna walking up Gonzales Hill. She knew she ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Louis L'Amour

BURR LOOKED UP suddenly at Jenny. “Dance over to Rock Springs next week. Want to ride over with me?” “No,” Jenny replied, “I don’t want to ride anywhere with a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-09-16 | Author:Ron Hansen [Hansen, Ron]

JAMES JOYCE • 311 —Good-night, Aunt Kate, and thanks ever so much. Good-night, Aunt Julia. —O, good-night, Gretta, I didn't see you. —Good-night, Mr D'Arcy. Good-night, Miss O'Callaghan. —Good-night, Miss ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Marshall, H. E. [Marshall, H. E.]

LA SALLE TAKES POSSESSION OF LOUISIANA As La Salle ceased speaking once more the air was rent with shouts of "God save the King," and the thunder of guns. A ...
( Category: Americas June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lex & Martone Williford & Michael Martone [Williford, Lex & Martone, Michael]

* * * AMY HEMPEL In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried AMY HEMPEL (1951—) is the author of three collections of short stories: Reasons to Live, At the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-05-01 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

THE CLOCK SHOP Fantoccini Our Specialty. Rabbits on walls, no problem. "Rabbits on walls?" I held up my fingers in profile as if I held them before a candle flame, ...
( Category: Science Fiction June 16,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Lauren Groff

OUR HUSBANDS COME home early from work one evening and tell us, grimly, that the barbarians are at the gates. The dictator has been useless, they say. When we press, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Loren D. Estleman [Estleman, Loren D.]

Pickups and Shotguns One Fifty minutes after I arrived for my appointment five minutes early, Lawrence Otell’s secretary—a tawny-haired angel whose placard read MS. ROLAND—hung up her telephone and told ...
( Category: Mystery June 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Greenman, Ben [Greenman, Ben]

THE ACADEMY LASTED ONLY A DECADE, THOUGH THE BUILDING that housed it, a former boomerang factory, still stands on the border between India and Australia. It is a modest edi-fice, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-03-14 | Author:Robert Shapard & James Thomas [Shapard, Robert & Thomas, James]

United States MONICA WOOD Disappearing When he starts in, I don’t look anymore, I know what it looks like, what he looks like, tobacco on his teeth. 1 just lie ...
( Category: Contemporary June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-02 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

“I didn’t write these letters.” “Aren’t you her?” “No. I don’t know who she is. I don’t know.” “Why did you take them?” “I didn’t understand. I didn’t know what ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Jayne Anne Phillips [Phillips, Jayne Anne]

Alma At night they shut the door of my room. The shade of the one window was drawn, and the only light I saw was the light along the bottom ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser

Our strategic withdrawal from the top floor of the Hotel Astoria was a fairly fraught business; for a while I didn’t think we were going to make it. Keil, with ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 15,2017 )