Short Stories
epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Kafka, Franz & Robertson, Ritchie & Crick, Joyce [Kafka, Franz]

III Gregor’s wound was serious and gave him pain for over a month—the apple remained, since no one dared remove it, as a visible memorial in his flesh*—but it seemed ...
( Category: Short Stories March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

4 7 mai 18— Homme sans mœurs et sans religion! FROM A CORRESPONDENCE LIZAVETA IVANOVNA was sitting in her room, still in her ball dress, lost in thought. On returning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

EXTRACT FROM THE BLANK-VERSE TRAGEDY BORIS GODUNOV (SCENE V) Pimen’s Monologue 1603. A Cell in the Monastery of the Miracle. Night. FATHER PIMEN, a monk, writing under a lamp. PIMEN. ...
( Category: Russian March 12,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-05-15 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

To the great boyar’s mansion Wends his way the Elder, Anton, In his bosom he carries For the boyar his monthly tallies; The boyar looks on with vacant face, He ...
( Category: Anthologies March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

† “Our clients” [German] THE STATIONMASTER “Collegiate administrator, Postal dictator”. —KING VYAZEMSKY Who has never cursed stationmasters? Who has never argued with them? Who, in a moment of anger, has ...
( Category: Russian March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:Stewart Ferris [Ferris, Stewart]

CONTINUED IN THE SPHINX SCROLLS The Sphinx Swindle is the prequel to The Sphinx Scrolls. An ancient Mayan prophecy... A dangerous Nazi descendant... A passionate archaeologist... And an aristocrat desperate ...
( Category: Short Stories March 9,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Madeleine Thien

Once, not long after they came to live with Liza, Lorraine woke up to find Kathleen next to her in the bottom bunk, their arms wrapped around each other like ...
( Category: Short Stories March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Weiner

What if the one you love is the one who got away? Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet late one night in an ...
( Category: Ghosts March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Weiner

THE GUY NOT TAKEN Marlie Davidow was not the kind of woman who went looking for trouble. But one Friday night in September, thanks to her own curiosity and the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 9,2017 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Kim Newman

RED JACKS WILD A PRELIMINARY WORD. This story was commissioned by Marvin Kaye at Weird Tales for a prospective series which would pair reprints of classic stories first published in ...
( Category: Short Stories February 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:David Szalay

MINISTER’S SECRET LOVE A picture of the minister looking shocked that they found somewhere, archive. Another, on the inside pages, of him looking sad. The stunning brunette, 40, is refusing ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

* The byname of the Dutch painter Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656). 7 Noise and commotion filled the Zaporozhian camp. At first nobody could explain how it had come to pass ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Rudyard Kipling

Now, the case stands thus. Unthinkingly, I have laid myself open to the charge of aiding and abetting the seal-cutter in obtaining money under false pretences, which is forbidden by ...
( Category: Short Stories February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE MALTESE CAT They had good reason to be proud, and better reason to be afraid, all twelve of them; for, though they had fought their way, game by game, ...
( Category: British & Irish February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

‘I KEEP SIX HONEST SERVING-MEN’ I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. ...
( Category: Short Stories February 25,2017 )