Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Paul Mariani

Chapter 16 The Unmaking of a Marriage 1953 A new year and a new beginning. On Sunday afternoon, January 4, Berryman took a long walk around Lake Carnegie with Monroe ...
( Category: Authors July 12,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2016-01-08 | Author:Warren Adler

XXIV Ernie had made sure the car kept its distance. The streets were so empty, the town so small, that following the car from five blocks away was no problem. ...
( Category: Mystery July 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Denise Grover Swank [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 July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Denise Grover Swank [Swank, Denise Grover]

Chapter Five A week passed without word from Marino. The boat engine was definitely dead, and the jobs I did for Marino—small time theft, usually involving breaking and entering—were my ...
( Category: Short Stories July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Denise Grover Swank [Swank, Denise Grover]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The rush of power sucked my breath away. I was aware of everything at once, the Manitou of every living thing. Plants, animals, people. Bacteria, insects, fungus. The ...
( Category: Romantic July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Ruthanna Emrys & Gord Sellar & Vrai Kaiser & Jayaprakash Satyamurthy & Kristi DeMeester & Konstantine Paradias & Erica Ruppert & Jamie Mason [Emrys, Ruthanna]

Lily gathered herself on the front step of a postwar rental, a boxy relic done in beige with pastel trim. The screen door was caved in like a hammock. The ...
( Category: Anthologies July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-02 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

St. Mary Martyr school when he was drawn into an abusive relationship with Murphy. When the boy threatened to tell his parents about Murphy's activities, the former priest strangled him ...
( Category: Anthologies July 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-26 | Author:Grothe, Mardy [Grothe, Mardy]

—Joe Torre “Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn.” —Harry Vardon “The difference between ...
( Category: Puns & Wordplay July 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

The Sieve and the Sand THEY READ THE LONG AFTERNOON THROUGH, WHILE THE fire flickered and blew the hearth and the rain fell from the sky over the house. Now ...
( Category: Anthologies July 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Ruth Rendell

All mornings were the same here, all bright sunshine and mounting heat and cloudless sky. First she went to the pool. He shouldn’t think she was running after him. But ...
( Category: Short Stories July 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:J.A. Konrath [Konrath, J.A.]

( Category: Women Sleuths July 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 1985-07-01 | Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]

Chapter Six “Your fiancé?” He spoke as if he wasn’t sure he’d heard her in the first place, and his eyes were riveted to the photograph. The lovely, sultry sweetness ...
( Category: Short Stories July 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-14 | Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]

( Category: Anthologies July 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Ciara Knight [Knight, Ciara]

CHAPTER FOUR Subject: Raeth Arteres Date: March 12, 2185 Species: Neumarian Condition: Deteriorating Treatment: Denied Status: Mental interrogation Method: Neuro-alterer II “This will hurt.” The grey coat laughs and places ...
( Category: Dystopian July 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

"Are you alluding to the present occasion?" "Well, you have an office of your own in this building, I believe." "I have." "Then why-" "I am at perfect liberty," he ...
( Category: Anthologies June 30,2016 )