Anthologies
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

JESSE AND MERIBETH In high school, I had a tender, loyal, boring friendship with a girl named MaryBeth Crocker. I gave myself up to it, as I did to the ...
( Category: Short Stories October 2,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Truman Capote

MASTER MISERY (1949) Her high heels, clacking across the marble foyer, made her think of ice cubes rattling in a glass, and the flowers, those autumn chrysanthemums in the urn ...
( Category: Short Stories October 1,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Stross [Stross, Charles]

War Crimes I'm going downside on Miramor Dubrovnic. It's my first field mission, and I'm tense as a wire. This is no great treat. They weave me into a dropcap ...
( Category: Short Stories September 30,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 1992-03-01 | Author:Isaac Asimov

The Hawkinsite was not in the least disconcerted. "Quite so," he said, and his hoofed fingers held out a thin, flexible hose that ran up his body, its tint blending ...
( Category: Short Stories September 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Lucius Shepard [Shepard, Lucius]

When she had no other duties, Tan would assist me with my chores: feeding the exotics, cleaning out their cages, and, though she did not relish his company, helping me ...
( Category: Anthologies September 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Silverberg [Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber]

On regaining consciousness Chemayev realized he was back in the garden. Considering the cau­tionary flavor of his previous experience and the circular pattern governing the evening, he had little doubt ...
( Category: Anthologies September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-29 | Author:Robert Silverberg

In the evening they dined together, just the two of them, in a great echoing candlelit hall where a platoon of silent Hjorts in gaudy livery did the serving, stalking ...
( Category: Epic September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-09-28 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

HE HAD no complaints, then, he assured himself as he sat on the burning front seat of the convertible trying to think of somewhere to go. It was just that ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

Imhrat Khan paused and asked me if he might have a glass of water. I fetched it for him. He took a long slow drink, then he went on with ...
( Category: Short Story Collections September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

fishermen won’t have nothing but lug worms. And of course there’s coloured maggots. Ordinary maggots are white, but you get them all sorts of different colours by feeding them special ...
( Category: Humorous September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Crocuses are up at the old house; daffodils bloom at the new. The children who had lived in the new house before us left Superballs under the radiators for us ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Craig Clevenger [Clevenger, Craig]

TWELVE When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people ...
( Category: Psychological September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Aimee Bender [Bender, Aimee]

Two teenagers were standing on a street corner. They were both wearing the hot new pants and both had great new butts, discovered on their bodies, a gift from the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

SOPHIE and Ian had bought corn at a roadside stand. It was for dinner. Plans had changed—they weren’t leaving till morning. And they had bought a bottle of gin and ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Haruki Murakami [Murakami, Haruki]

—translated by Jay Rubin GREETINGS, The winter cold diminishes with each passing day, and now the sunlight hints at the subtle scent of springtime. I trust that you are well. ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )