Short Stories
epub |eng | | Author:Justin Taylor

POETS They met at the mixer the week before their semester started. He seemed ambitious, a pleaser; she walked away annoyed. But it was a small program and she was ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:Strantzas, Simon [Strantzas, Simon]

PALE LIGHT IN THE JUNGLE "Explain it to me again." Richard huffed. "Can we at least put the couch down first?" They had been moving Michael into his new house ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Randolph Thomas

Sure enough, we found Roxanne’s LTD at the first place we looked. Dean’s Dinner Theater, the place where, according to Art, she’d gotten shitfaced the previous year. It was a ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Hob Broun [Broun, Hob]

Stella, legally, should be starting school, but my wife and I are loath to part with her. Is this a lack of faith in institutions, or something more selfish? Either ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Hunter, Lindsay [Hunter, Lindsay]

NOTE I wrote my sister this note about all the things I hate. Gorgons, it said. And how people go nutville any time the moon throws a shape. Nasty ass ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Ray Garton

He awoke sitting up in a chair with his hands cuffed behind its stiff, straight back. It took a little while for his blurry vision to clear, but when it ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Tem, Steve Rasnic [Tem, Steve Rasnic]

STRANGENESS Strangeness, n. In particle physics a quantum characteristic used to describe certain short-lived particles and their transformations when interacting with other particles. Short-lived particles. Trish looked up from the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Nelson, K.B. [Nelson, K.B.]

* * * FOUR YEARS AGO The bus station is dead. Luke sits beside me on the bench, tapping his foot nervously against the dirty, green tiles. My head rests ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Ivy Compton-Burnett

Chapter VII “Aunt Miranda is dead,” said Adrian, and broke into tears. “Yes, yes, I know, my boy,” said Mr. Pettigrew. “The news came in time to prevent my coming ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-28 | Author:Jack Cady

TRUCK GYPSY BLUES I Leave these blues behind me, Let that tandem call, Start that road to windin’, From it all. Left a girl in Pittsburgh, Cried to see me ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:John Barth [Barth, John]

7. One growled, “Sure we will.” “No police brutality, Jake,” the other cautioned, and said to me more pleasantly as each took an elbow: “We’ll all see the Chancellor soon, ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-28 | Author:Stuart McLean

Phoning a family at two in the morning to ask if they would mind dropping over to pick up their child because you have just shown him Night of the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Brodkey, Harold [Brodkey, Harold]

SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION IT WAS EIGHT O’CLOCK on a warm September evening, and all the bells of Harvard were striking the hour. Elgin Smith, tired of studying, was standing on the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

III. THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH In the party of Jews who in their flight from Poland had taken Elishama with them, there had been a very old man who had ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Jane Gardam

“It is warmer,” said Bell later. They had passed Wild Boar, the railway bridge and the empty dog kennel, the school and the chapel, all dead and dark. “It must ...
( Category: Farm Life January 29,2015 )