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A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover
azw3, epub |eng | 1997-03-15 | Author:Robert Coover

One Moment While the Operator Changes Reels Intermission The lights come up and a thin curtain covers the screen, but the sign behind it telling everyone to please visit the ...
( Category: Short Stories December 29,2014 )
Redeployment by Phil Klay
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Phil Klay

I had at least thought there would be nobility in war. I know it exists. There are so many stories, and some of them have to be true. But I ...
( Category: Short Stories December 28,2014 )
Twist and Scream - Volumes 1 - 4 - Omnibus Edition (Horror Short Stories) by Bartholomew Jayne
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-18 | Author:Bartholomew, Jayne [Bartholomew, Jayne]

Running Wild Dr Sam Worth stared at the toenails presented to him in thoughtful silence; his patient, a forty-three year old businessman called Max Archer, stared with him. “I really ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Ron Rash [Rash, Ron]

SOMETHING RICH and STRANGE She follows the river’s edge downstream, leaving behind her parents and younger brother who still eat their picnic lunch. It is Easter break and her father ...
( Category: Crime December 27,2014 )
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-28 | Author:Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Chocolates with Liqueur 1 The Housing Question Nikita left his wife, Lelia, but for the time being he let her and their children stay in their two-room apartment. He didn’t ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Time Done Been Won't Be No More by William Gay
epub |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:William Gay

MUSIC CRITICISM TIME DONE BEEN WONT BE NO MORE (But See That My Grave Is Kept Clean) SEE IT AS A TREASURE CHEST or, more aptly, a Pandora’s box unleashing ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Abnormal Occurrences by Thomas Berger
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Thomas Berger [Berger, Thomas]

The so-called Lesson 10 was printed on the second piece of paper yielded by the envelope. The sheet was of standard size though its message could have been accommodated on ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Infinite Dreams by Joe Haldeman
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Joe Haldeman [HALDEMAN, JOE]

It’s not easy to stay penniless in New York City, not if you have a twenty-year-old body and over a century’s worth of experience in separating people from their money. ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
Airtight Willie & Me by Iceberg Slim
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Iceberg Slim

GRANDMA RANDY I In 1938, Jay Henderson sat suspect in a klieg of Texas sun, a disheveled rodeo cowboy Apollo. Big green money lay like bouquets of wilted blossoms in ...
( Category: Urban December 27,2014 )
The Kidnapped Bride (Redcakes) by Heather Hiestand
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Heather Hiestand [Hiestand, Heather]

John tipped over his king with a push of his index finger. “When did you start beating me at chess?” Dougal grinned. “I believe I was fifteen.” The fireplace crackled, ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
African Stories by Doris Lessing
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Lessing

The Antheap BEYOND the plain rose the mountains, blue and hazy in a strong blue sky. Coming closer they were brown and grey and green, ranged heavily one beside the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 27,2014 )
Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

Imagine, Francis later thought as he sat alone in his own kitchen, getting so upset about a form letter from a snake breeder. After all, it was only one of ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass

She had only one more week left of treatment. Millions of patients had been through it before—they would nearly all call it the most physically grueling and spiritual thing they’d ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Honored Guest (Vintage Contemporaries) by Williams Joy
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Williams, Joy [Williams, Joy]

There was still no coffee. She wasn’t going to waste her time looking for coffee when there wasn’t any. A moth was floating in the sheltie’s water bowl. This was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Shadow Tales by Shirley Damsgaard
epub |eng | | Author:Shirley Damsgaard

A Time of Promise (This story is dedicated to John McConkey) From where he sat by the fire, he could see the snow falling softly and silently in the winter ...
( Category: Occult December 27,2014 )

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