Anthologies
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

* * * This article was originally published in the November 2013 issue of Playboy. Check out more from the issue at playboy.com/magazine. Illustration by P-Jay Fidler
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Jack Canfield

My Superhero To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo Everyone has a hero—someone he admires, who has had an impact on his life. My ...
( Category: Self Help March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Sandra Newman [Newman, Sandra]

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822) Shelley really, really couldn’t do life. At Eton, he was routinely beaten up for being a sissy. At Oxford, he wrote and circulated a pamphlet called ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:E.M. Forster

OTHER KINGDOM ~ I. “‘QUEM, WHOM; FUGIS, ARE YOU avoiding; ah demens, you silly ass; habitarunt di quoque, gods too have lived in; silvas, the woods.’ Go ahead!” I always ...
( Category: Short Stories March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

THE STORY OF A LIE CHAPTER I—INTRODUCES THE ADMIRAL When Dick Naseby was in Paris he made some odd acquaintances; for he was one of those who have ears to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 24,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-11 | Author:Sana Krasikov [Krasikov, Sana]

Sitting in the leather armchair and staring at Erin’s diplomas on the brick wall, Anya felt a kind of numbing safety. It was like the safety of being in school, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:P. N. Elrod

JACK SLEPT, AFTER DEMOLISHING THE LAST OF THE mmibar’s whiskey, lying lengthwise across the bed. Using his sight was like popping a handful of Valium, or so he’d told Pete. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Gardner Dozois [Dozois, Gardner]

Diana Rowland Hell hath no fury like a woman whose city has been scorned … Diana Rowland has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street ...
( Category: Anthologies March 23,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:P. N. Elrod

ESCOTT DROVE US to Bawks House; Miss Weaver—Mabel now, she insisted—sat next to him. I had the backseat to myself, slumping low in case she noticed I wasn’t reflecting in ...
( Category: Anthologies March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-18 | Author:Jake Logan

( Category: Westerns March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

II Mikhaílo Nikoláevitch Ipátoff’s manor consisted of two separate small mansions, built opposite each other on the two sides of a huge pond through which ran a river. A long ...
( Category: Italian March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Joseph Roth [Joseph Roth]

IV I think of the seventy-two-year-old Jew forced to climb to the top of that fireman’s ladder. No foreign correspondent was present. And if one had been, he wouldn’t have ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Kate Braverman

Cristina, a pale novitiate with a lace-covered silver tray. A pink bud in a vase. Cristina, face grave, drawn tightly like Mother. Stiff. She has bones that will fracture. Brittle ...
( Category: Biographical March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:John Cheever

The Princess SHE WAS JUST an ordinary girl in the line until Golden got hold of her. She was younger than most of them; she must have been about twenty. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Keller's Adjustment (v5) [Adjustment, Keller's]

HE ATE DINNER BY himself in a Mexican restaurant that reminded him of another Mexican restaurant. He was lingering over a second cup of café con leche before he figured ...
( Category: Anthologies March 22,2020 )