Short Stories
epub |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:Khushwant Singh

The Claim Narain Bharati 'Brother, who gives claim here?' Joharmal asked of those standing in the veranda of the Camp No. 2 office. 'Uncle, no one gives claim; the claim ...
( Category: Anthologies February 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Hunter, Faith [Hunter, Faith]

Note from Faith: I hope you liked Beneath a Bloody Moon. I fell in love with the gulf years ago, and have wondered for years about the canals. For research ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban February 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Christy Carlyle [Carlyle, Christy]

Chapter Five Ian meant to resist her, to pull away from her kiss, to sit her down and speak sense to her. But she addled all his senses. She smelled ...
( Category: Victorian February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Christy Carlyle [Carlyle, Christy]

CHAPTER NINE Will was rooted to the spot where she left him. A twinge of pain in his leg coaxed him to sit down, but he could not move. She ...
( Category: Victorian February 2,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Zabo Anna [Anna, Zabo]

"Liar." Affection and concern softened the reply. Silas grasped the edge of his chair, pulled it out, and sank down. He would have reached for his wine had his hands ...
( Category: Short Stories January 27,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Ivie, Jackie [Ivie, Jackie]

CHAPTER SEVEN Her watch had quit working. Again. Still. Either that or eight minutes had elapsed since she first woke in this fantasy realm atop a marble slab. Eight minutes ...
( Category: Short Stories January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Jackie Ivie [Ivie, Jackie]

CHAPTER SEVEN Two of her fingers reached his abdomen, stunning him. Her touch was a physical force to contend with, an electrical surge that was impossible to defy. His eyes ...
( Category: Short Stories January 23,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Ivie, Jackie [Ivie, Jackie]

CHAPTER SEVEN Two of her fingers reached his abdomen, stunning him. Her touch was a physical force to contend with, an electrical surge that was impossible to defy. His eyes ...
( Category: Short Stories January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:Jackie Ivie [Ivie, Jackie]

CHAPTER SEVEN The movement happening all about them was caused by fans. Four of them. In the ceiling. So that was the method behind the wafting mist and spider web ...
( Category: Short Stories January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * THE MOVING FINGER The news of Mrs. Grancy's death came to me with the shock of an immense blunder--one of fate's most irretrievable acts of vandalism. It ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

* * * The Fillmore ElderberriesToC “I expected as much,” said Timothy Robinson. His tone brought the blood into Ellis Duncan’s face. The lad opened his lips quickly, as if ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * II * * * WHEN, punctually at ten minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself ...
( Category: Linguistics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

* * * The Penningtons’ GirlToC Winslow had been fishing—or pretending to—all the morning, and he was desperately thirsty. He boarded with the Beckwiths on the Riverside East Shore, but ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

"Sure thing," he nodded. "And Ahuna fell for it. First he tried to locate the hiding-place of the bait of his hair. Failing that, he hired a pahiuhiu sorcerer to ...
( Category: Crime January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

GRIT OF WOMEN A wolfish head, wistful-eyed and frost-rimed, thrust aside the tent-flaps. “Hi! Chook! Siwash! Chook, you limb of Satan!” chorused the protesting inmates. Bettles rapped the dog sharply ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )