Short Stories
epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:John Crowley [Crowley, John]

V. THE TEARS OF THE PRESIDENT PRO TEM “I REMEMBER,” the President pro tem of the Otherhood said, “the light: a very clear, very pure, very cool light that seemed ...
( Category: Short Stories July 8,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

( Category: Ghosts July 7,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Chaon, Dan [Chaon, Dan]

But back then, whatever puzzles my mother’s inner life presented were not nearly as interesting as the mystery of the Morrison family. I called my college friends and talked to ...
( Category: Short Stories July 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Chuck Palahniuk]

I worked at a greasy spoon called Gary’s Diner my senior year when I was seventeen. It was a dirty place to eat and work, but they were hiring, and ...
( Category: Anthologies July 7,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-05-02 | Author:Palahniuk, Chuck [Palahniuk, Chuck]

12 It's Sister Vigilante who finds the body. She's coming down the lobby stairs, from the first-balcony foyer, from turning on the lights in the projection booth, when she stumbles ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Hua, Yu [Hua, Yu]

ONE EVENING SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, Wen Hong arrived at Li Ping’s apartment. Li Ping was doing herself up in front of the mirror. She had just finished combing her hair ...
( Category: Chinese July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

What I am trying to do is to add together those elements, some horrible, some merely funny, but all significant, which I suppose to be the forces of off-campus history. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Dahl, Roald [Dahl, Roald]

13 By early June, 1919, we were almost ready to go. I say almost because we still had not agreed upon the list of names. Who would be the great ...
( Category: Humorous July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Chaon, Dan [Chaon, Dan]

And then she’d taken a step out into the street without looking. That is what the police said. Stepped out into the street without looking both ways. The practice tests ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-05-21 | Author:Dahl, Roald [Dahl, Roald]

4 In the living room, I got out paper and pencils so that I could make notes. I have a sort of private shorthand of my own that I use ...
( Category: Short Story Collections July 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

‘I tried to speak to the vicar yesterday, to confess all, but was not allowed. She would not let me. I can make amends only one way—a life for a ...
( Category: Murder July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

The Affair at the Bungalow 'I've thought of something,' said Jane Helier. Her beautiful face was lit up with the confident smile of a child expecting approbation. It was a ...
( Category: Murder July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

"And she bled all down my shirt, too!" said Beetle. "An' I'm catty all over," said McTurk, "though I washed twice." "An' I nearly broke Beetle's brolly plantin' her where ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

OLALLA Olalla ‘Now,’ said the doctor, ‘my part is done, and, I may say, with some vanity, well done. It remains only to get you out of this cold and ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-03-29 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

“There was a third enclosure?” asked Utterson. “Here, sir,” said Poole, and gave into his hands a considerable packet sealed in several places. The lawyer put it in his pocket. ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 4,2019 )