Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:David Benioff [Benioff, David]

2 Fourteen years later I was at home by myself, watching a rental movie on the VCR, an old James Cagney gangster flick. Midway through came a few seconds of ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Brian Evenson [Evenson, Brian]

A month later, by cutting a few corners, Kossweiller had hit his own ninety over ninety. He had several hundred manuscript pages, all of them terrible—even the recipes led to ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

EMMA ENTERS A SENTENCE OF ELIZABETH BISHOP’S The slow fall of ash Emma was afraid of Elizabeth Bishop. Emma imagined Elizabeth Bishop lying naked next to a naked Marianne Moore, ...
( Category: Short Stories December 26,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-13 | Author:Glen Hirshberg [Hirshberg, Glen]

Dancing Men We’d been all afternoon in the Old Jewish Cemetery, where green light filters through the trees and lies atop the tumbled tombstones like algae. Mostly I think the ...
( Category: Horror December 25,2015 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-27 | Author:Sillitoe, Alan [Sillitoe, Alan]

I was born dead, I keep telling myself. Everybody's dead, I answer. So they are, I maintain, but then most of them never know it like I'm beginning to do, ...
( Category: Short Stories December 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Can Xue & Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping

THE ROSES AT THE HOSPITAL = When I was at home, I always heard people mention “Gaoling.” I got the impression that it was a hill, with several long, narrow ...
( Category: Short Stories December 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Elmore Leonard [Leonard, Elmore]

For Something to Do 1955 PAST HOWELL, HE KEPT the speedometer needle at seventy for almost six miles, until he was in sight of the mailbox. Then he eased his ...
( Category: Short Stories December 23,2015 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Woods [Woods, Jonathan]

An Orphan’s Tale I murdered my mother. Hemorrhaged to death giving birth to yours truly. Three months later my father in a fit of the Devil’s ennui drove to N.O. ...
( Category: Short Stories December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-05 | Author:Melanie Milburne [Milburne, Melanie]

CHAPTER SIX MIRANDA HAD BEEN asleep for a couple of hours when she woke with a sudden start. Had she heard something? She lay there for a moment, wondering if ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:James Calvin Schaap [Schaap, James Calvin]

4 . . . The Church Finding Something “We’ve not found anything, Mom.” That’s what Ellen had told her, and how many times hadn’t Ellen said exactly that when she ...
( Category: Christmas December 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Leah, Cia [Leah, Cia]

Chapter 5 Maryann was in her room when Tommy came running inside. "Did you see me riding my horse, Ma?" "Yes, I did, and you are an excellent rider. I'm ...
( Category: Westerns December 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Fowler, Christopher [Fowler, Christopher]

This tale began life as a challenge to write a short story that would allow readers to choose what happened next. Writers hate to throw anything away, and afterwards I ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Grace, Viola [Grace, Viola]

It was a warm day for the depths of December. The eight subs were waiting for her. They finished lining up as she pulled in front of the manor house, ...
( Category: Short Stories December 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-06 | Author:Milburne, Melanie [Milburne, Melanie]

CHAPTER SIX MIRANDA HAD BEEN asleep for a couple of hours when she woke with a sudden start. Had she heard something? She lay there for a moment, wondering if ...
( Category: Anthologies December 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Max Lucado

CHAPTER 5 SATURDAY EVENING December 17, 1864 Guests occupied every corner of the Barstow parlor. With full bellies and filled glasses, they lingered long after the meal. Charles Barstow discussed ...
( Category: Christmas December 16,2015 )