Short Stories
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

X. She Fails to Vanish Still Pierston had not turned far back towards the castle when he was overtaken by Somers and the man who carried his painting lumber. They ...
( Category: Short Stories January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Wodehouse, P. G. [Wodehouse, P. G.]

The Good Angel Any man under thirty years of age who tells you he is not afraid of an English butler lies. He may not show his fear. Outwardly he ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Roald Dahl

Royal Jelly [1959] ‘It worries me to death, Albert, it really does,’ Mrs Taylor said. She kept her eyes fixed on the baby who was now lying absolutely motionless in ...
( Category: Short Stories January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

Yesterday was Beautiful He bent down and rubbed his ankle where it had been sprained with the walking so that he couldn’t see the ankle bone. Then he straightened up ...
( Category: Anthologies January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

Bunches of Knuckles ARRANGEMENTS quite extensive had been made for the celebration of Christmas on the yacht Samoset. Not having been in any civilized port for months, the stock of ...
( Category: Linguistics January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

The Pomegranate Seeds Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1997-02-01 | Author:Charles Dickens

***** This file should be named 807-h.htm or 807-h.zip****** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/8/0/807 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:John Galsworthy [Galsworthy, John]

Midsummer Madness, 1880 George, second son to Roger Forsyte of Prince's gate, was in the year 1880 twenty–four years of age, and supposed to be a farmer. That is to ...
( Category: Family Saga January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Corgan, Sky [Corgan, Sky]

CHAPTER FIVE HOLDEN She's so fiery that I couldn't hold myself back any longer. The fight had faded from her eyes—a moment of weakness. A moment was all that I ...
( Category: Anthologies January 4,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Yates, Richard [Yates, Richard]

The B.A.R. Man UNTIL HE GOT his name on the police blotter, and in the papers, nobody had ever thought much about John Fallon. He was employed as a clerk ...
( Category: Short Stories January 3,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-13 | Author:Galaviz-Budziszewski, Alexai [Galaviz-Budziszewski, Alexai]

Chuey was a hippie; at least that’s what everybody in school called him. I’m not sure they even knew what a hippie was. Chuey was more a rocker. He’d introduced ...
( Category: Short Stories January 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-09 | Author:Blair, John [Blair, John]

These factors help to explain why raiders descended in such numbers on European countries from the 850s onwards, and why casual plundering gave way to a policy of conquest and ...
( Category: England December 28,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-11-23 | Author:Frederik Pohl [Pohl, Frederik]

The watchers for the Arrogating Ones, hiding inside the pebbly core of the comet named after the two amateur astronomers who had simultaneously discovered it, studied the results of their ...
( Category: Short Stories December 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Harlan Ellison [Ellison, Harlan]

When they had licked the last of the weiners’ taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette. Nice kid, Ernie thought. Too bad. “How come ...
( Category: Short Stories December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:David Benioff [Benioff, David]

2 Fourteen years later I was at home by myself, watching a rental movie on the VCR, an old James Cagney gangster flick. Midway through came a few seconds of ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2015 )