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Extinction Lost by Smith Nicholas Sansbury
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Smith, Nicholas Sansbury [Smith, Nicholas Sansbury]

“It had to have been a Reaver,” Dohi said. “That’s why I can’t find tracks. It must have swooped down and grabbed Stevenson when we were inside searching.” Team Ghost ...
( Category: Short Stories September 15,2024 )
Slow Time Between the Stars by Scalzi John
epub |eng | 2023-06-27 | Author:Scalzi, John [Scalzi, John]

It is reasonable to wonder what it’s like to spend hundreds of thousands of years in the blank nothingness of space, surrounded by absence. I imagine humans trying to contemplate ...
( Category: Short Stories September 15,2024 )
The Baboons Who Went This Way and That: Folktales From Africa by Smith Alexander McCall
epub |eng | 2006-06-29 | Author:Smith, Alexander McCall [Smith, Alexander McCall]

“The man who marries her will have to give me lots of cattle,” went on the father. “How many?” asked Kumalo. “I am sure that I will have that many.” ...
( Category: Short Stories September 15,2024 )
The Bachman Books: RageThe Long WalkRoadworkThe Running Man by King Stephen & Bachman Richard
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:King, Stephen & Bachman, Richard [King, Stephen & Bachman, Richard]

…Minus 056 and COUNTING… Two days passed. Richards played his part well—that is to say, as if his life depended on it. He took dinner at the hotel both nights ...
( Category: Short Stories September 14,2024 )
The Great Wall of China and Other Stories by Kafka Franz
epub |eng | 1931-01-01 | Author:Kafka, Franz [Kafka, Franz]

THE CITY COAT OF ARMS AT first everything was tolerably well organized for the building of the Tower of Babel; indeed the organization was perhaps excessive, too much thought was ...
( Category: Short Stories September 14,2024 )
Fifty-Two Stories by Chekhov Anton
epub |eng | 1883-01-01 | Author:Chekhov, Anton [Chekhov, Anton]

CHAPTER TWO / A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER But she did not think about anything and only wept. When soft, fluffy snow had completely covered Kashtanka’s back and head, and she had ...
( Category: Short Stories September 14,2024 )
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report by Dick Philip K
epub |eng | 1987-05-01 | Author:Dick, Philip K. [Dick, Philip K.]

Risking the severe fine, Ian Duncan missed the assembly and remained in his apartment that evening, studying official Government texts on the religio-political history of the United States—relpol, as they ...
( Category: Short Stories September 13,2024 )
Veiled by Elliot Kendra
epub |eng | 2013-12-04 | Author:Elliot, Kendra [Elliot, Kendra]

CHAPTER SIX Lacey felt ill from bouncing around in the backseat of Terry’s SUV. A long stretch of the road was a mass of switchbacks that worked their way up ...
( Category: Short Stories September 13,2024 )
The Victim by James P. D
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:James, P. D. [James, P. D.]

After that brief visit I never saw or spoke to her again. I stayed in the shack, but life became pointless after Collingford’s death. Planning his murder had been an ...
( Category: Short Stories September 12,2024 )
From the Land of Fear: Stories by Ellison Harlan
epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]

The Enemy came down the street rank on rank. There was no need for reluctance, no need for hesitation or skulking. The preparatory seeding of the city had been an ...
( Category: Short Stories September 12,2024 )
Troublemakers: Stories by Ellison Harlan
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]

The cell was drafty, and Henry was certain he was coming down with a beastly case of intestinal flu. His cellmate was ignoring him, while picking between his naked toes ...
( Category: Short Stories September 12,2024 )
Slippage: Previously Precariously Poised, Uncollected Stories by Ellison Harlan
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]

___ This story, for Bob Bloch, because I promised. ___ My mother survived that one, and I drove back from Ohio maybe four, five days later. As I pulled up ...
( Category: Short Stories September 12,2024 )
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Chekhov Anton
epub |eng | 1899-01-01 | Author:Chekhov, Anton [Chekhov, Anton]

VII A rainy, muddy, dark autumn set in. There was no work around and I would sit at home for days on end without anything to do. Or I would ...
( Category: Short Stories September 12,2024 )
How It Unfolds by Corey James S. A
epub |eng | 2023-06-27 | Author:Corey, James S. A. [Corey, James S. A.]

[The image is of Elizabet Aldo. Her eyes are puffy, with bags under them as dark as bruises. She rubs her palm against her cheek.] ELIZABET: This is the third ...
( Category: Short Stories September 11,2024 )
Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie by Chopin Kate
epub |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Chopin, Kate [Chopin, Kate]

Athénaïse I ATHÉNAÏSE went away in the morning to make a visit to her parents, ten miles back on rigolet de Bon Dieu.1 She did not return in the evening, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 11,2024 )

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