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Sugar Among the Freaks by Lewis Nordan
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Lewis Nordan [Nordan, Lewis]

Wheelchair Winston Krepps had been abandoned by his attendant, and the door was shut tight. Winston pressed the control lever of his chair. The battery was low, so the motor ...
( Category: Short Stories January 30,2023 )
Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

About the Author Anton Chekhov was a late nineteenth-century Russian physician turned author and playwright. While studying at medical school, Chekhov took up writing as a source of income to ...
( Category: Short Stories January 30,2023 )
End of Summer by J. Tonzelii
epub |eng | | Author:J. Tonzelii

ONE GOOD SCARE “Don't you see…? I could be either a murderer or a savior, because until human eyes see inside the box, the man inside is both dead and ...
( Category: Short Stories January 30,2023 )
Selected Works of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

Part Second—The Isabels Chapter One Through good and evil report in the varying fortune of that struggle which Don José had characterized in the phrase, “the fate of national honesty ...
( Category: Short Stories January 30,2023 )
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Guy de Maupassant

ROSE The two young women are practically buried beneath a layer of blossom. They have all to themselves a huge landau1 filled to the brim with bouquets and looking like ...
( Category: Short Stories January 30,2023 )
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories by James Cochrane
epub |eng | 2009-11-20 | Author:James Cochrane

Stephen Crane THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY 1 THE great Pullman was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove ...
( Category: Short Stories January 30,2023 )
Cruise of Shadows by Jean Ray
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Jean Ray

THE MAINZ PSALTER Dying men generally impose few forms on their final words; compelled to summarize their entire lives, they subject their words to a rigorous economy. Nevertheless, in the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2023 )
The Great Chain of Unbeing by Andrew Crumey
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Andrew Crumey [Crumey, Andrew]

Between the Tones The Contract Conroy’s phone is ringing. He gazes at the raindrops trailing dirt down the windows of his untidy flat as he lifts the receiver. “Conroy here.” ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2023 )
It's What You Think (When You Think About Cheating) by Robin Romm
epub |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Robin Romm [Romm, Robin]

The high school does not allow Christmas decorations. Parents have protested. So instead, the school counselors have hung pink tinsel above all the lockers. Every few feet, a yellow metallic ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2023 )
Staten Island Stories by Claire Jimenez
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Claire Jimenez

This One Kid Douglass Got Jumped After a while the cops didn’t like us hanging out after school at the ferry terminal because Yesenia and Toya started doing too much, ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2023 )
The Next New World: Stories by Bob Shacochis
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Shacochis [Shacochis, Bob]

for Barbara Azar Davis THE TRAPDOOR ONE Like the unambitious towers of the New World, the playhouses rose before the passengers to a modest height and then stopped unconvincingly. The ...
( Category: Short Stories January 28,2023 )
Neighbors of Nothing by Jason Ockert
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Jason Ockert

It is easy for Needle to pack up his bedroom. He fills a duffle bag with clothes, a suitcase with bed linen and toiletries, and a backpack with a tarnished ...
( Category: Short Stories January 28,2023 )
Things That Pass for Love by Allison Amend
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Allison Amend

THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW BEST The Doctors Without Borders, Marca’s rowdiest book club, straggled in on the second Thursday of each month, except for August and December. The name was ...
( Category: Short Stories January 28,2023 )
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Maile Meloy

At noon we eat sandwiches inside and I try to decide what to do with the tamarisk that has grown up around the cottonwoods. It’s an imported species and it’s ...
( Category: Short Stories January 27,2023 )
Keepsakes & Other Stories by Jon Hassler
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Jon Hassler

CHIEF LARSON “Why did you do it, Charles Edward?” his mother kept asking him. He was seven and the reasons were clear enough in his mind, but when it came ...
( Category: Short Stories January 20,2023 )

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