Short Stories
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Elizabeth Tallent

Never Come Back This was his life now, his real life, the thing he thought about most: his boy was in and out of trouble and he didn’t know what ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-14 | Author:Andrea Barrett [Barrett, Andrea]

He shared these with the boatmen on Christmas Day, when they asked him to join their quiet celebration. The captain led the men in some hymns; Caleb read from the ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-10-27 | Author:Wells, Billy [Wells, Billy]

IT LURKS ON THE MOUNTAIN “Another Bud,” Jack Springer said, inserting a ketchup-covered fry into his mouth. He had been game warden in the county for more than twenty-five years, ...
( Category: Horror February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Ross Macdonald

GUILT-EDGED BLONDE A man was waiting for me at the gate at the edge of the runway. He didn’t look like the man I expected to meet. He wore a ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1985-02-14 | Author:Helena María Viramontes

III He’s got lice. Probably from living in the detainers. Those are the rooms where they round up the children and make them work for their food. I saw them ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stuart Evers

The annexe is broadly cruciform, the western end longer than planned, extended to accommodate a series of tall octagonal spinners arranged in two banks, heading down to a small round ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-03 | Author:David Constantine

The Shieling They invented a place. It was far away from here, indeed from anywhere, high up, at the limits, like a shieling. He particularly liked the word ‘­shieling’. A ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Anthony Marra

WE SAT between our two beds on legless chairs propped on book boxes (our father had used the screws that had held together the legs to mount a clock). Rugs ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Chekhov, Anton [Chekhov, Anton]

FIRE IN THE STEPPE: AN EVIL NIGHT You can hear the dogs barking and howling in an alarming way, as dogs usually do when they sense an enemy but cannot ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Harvey Swados

“Grip,” she said, without turning her eyes away from Peter, “be a gem and get me a glass of wine.” “Of course.” “Are you a friend of Freddy’s, Miss Parson?” ...
( Category: Short Stories February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-25 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

In the Penal Colony ‘It is a strange piece of equipment,’ said the officer to the travelling researcher, and with a certain air of admiration he surveyed the equipment with ...
( Category: German February 15,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Thomas Ligotti

THE MUSIC OF THE MOON With considerable interest, and some disquiet, I listened while a small, pale man named Tressor told of his remarkable experience, his mild voice barely breaking ...
( Category: Occult February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-09 | Author:Katha Pollitt [Pollitt, Katha]

Looking back, I can see that I became depressed. It wasn’t baby blues, or, as we now medicalize it, postpartum depression. It was loneliness. In the way that we prepare ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Pollitt, Katha [Pollitt, Katha]

Looking back, I can see that I became depressed. It wasn’t baby blues, or, as we now medicalize it, postpartum depression. It was loneliness. In the way that we prepare ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-08 | Author:Rosemary Friedman [Rosemary Friedman]

All my Love 1967 It was the telegram in the Post Office that threw Iris off balance – not that it took very much to do that these days – ...
( Category: Short Stories February 9,2016 )