Short Stories
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

DEATH Year after year went away into nothing, with great explosions and outcries in the cities on the plain: red revolt springing up and being suppressed in blood, battle swaying ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-07 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

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 poisonous ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:DeLillo, Don [DeLillo, Don]

MIDNIGHT IN DOSTOEVSKY We were two somber boys hunched in our coats, grim winter settling in. The college was at the edge of a small town way upstate, barely a ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

stood for E. As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet, and it predominates to so marked an extent that even in a short ...
( Category: Short Stories July 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Paul Tremblay [Tremblay, Paul]

Leaving the House It’s colder now than it was when she arrived. Fiona walks to her car and won’t allow herself to stop and turn and stare at the house. ...
( Category: Occult July 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Clifford D. Simak

Mirage This story, sold to Amazing Stories in 1950 under the title “Mirage,” ended up being published as “Seven Came Back,” although Cliff reverted to the original title in subsequent ...
( Category: Short Stories July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Olen Butler

TA CHIN Chinese wife, beheaded by her husband, 1838 straight and whole are my feet I would rise and run as I have loved for many winkings of the moon ...
( Category: Short Stories June 28,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Dahl, Roald [Dahl, Roald]

12 Back to the Chocolate Factory AND THEN THE NOISE of splintering wood and broken glass and absolute darkness and the most awful crunching sounds as the Elevator rushed on ...
( Category: Short Stories June 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Lyons, Malcolm C [Lyons, Malcolm C]

“By God, lady,” I said, “it would be better to abandon this letter. Have you no fear of God here?” “Are you a messenger or a busy-body?” she asked, and ...
( Category: Short Stories June 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]

The lunch bell rang at 1305 hours. The men ran by on soft rubber sneakers and sat at the cushioned tables. Clemens wasn’t hungry. “See, what did I tell you!” ...
( Category: Short Stories June 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:Aldous Huxley

II Guy and Jacobsen were walking in the Dutch garden, an incongruous couple. On Guy military servitude had left no outwardly visible mark; out of uniform, he still looked like ...
( Category: Short Stories June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 1976-07-31 | Author:Poul Anderson

Then the last trace of what he had done with his genetic endowment, and what had been done to it, was scrubbed from him and he was dead. Death was ...
( Category: Short Stories June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 1994-06-25 | Author:A. S. Byatt [Byatt, A. S.]

When they came out into the light of day she gave him what Turkish money she had, which he looked over, counted, and put in his pocket. She could not ...
( Category: Short Stories June 26,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-05-26 | Author:Robinson, Kim Stanley [Robinson, Kim Stanley]

On the way back Roger must free the fixed rope to recover it for the climb above, so on the Thank God Ledge he is always belayed only to the ...
( Category: Anthologies June 26,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-05-16 | Author:Borges, Jorge Luis [Borges, Jorge Luis]

V I traveled over new kingdoms, new empires. In the fall of 1066, I fought at Stamford Bridge, I do not recall whether in the forces of Harold, who was ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American June 26,2019 )