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Scribblings From a Dark Place: A Collection of Short Stories by Shaw Matt
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Shaw, Matt [Shaw, Matt]

“John! Good to see you! Can you step into my office, please?” he’ll say. At first my heart will pound harder and faster than usual. Tomorrow is the first time ...
( Category: Humorous December 27,2014 )
Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Ha Jin [Jin, Ha]

MISS JEE After we cleaned the classroom and spread rice straw along the wall to make a large bed, we — the Thirteenth Squad — had our first meeting. Sitting ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Murgunstrumm and Others by Cave Hugh
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Cave, Hugh [Cave, Hugh B.]

After that the policeman came. The policeman was Irish and block-shouldered and had a blunt-cornered face as fixed in its expression as the angular walls of the shanty. His blue ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Twice Told Tales by Daniel Stern
epub |eng | 1989-05-15 | Author:Daniel Stern [Stern, Daniel]

The impossible accident of making love to Lois Wan in the American Embassy, when anyone could have walked through the doors and discovered us. Finding myself seated opposite Gideon’s wheelchair ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Arms Race by Nic Low
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Nic Low

In the morning Umi’s gone, and she’s not answering her phone. There’s a pile of refugee-arrival printouts on my desk and a scribbled note: You were talking in your sleep. ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Same Place, Same Things by Tim Gautreaux
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tim Gautreaux

The Bug Man It was five o’clock and Felix Robichaux, the Bug Man, rolled up the long, paved drive that ran under the spreading live oaks of the Beauty Queen’s ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Bedded by Strangers: Fantasies Unleashed 2
epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Leigh, Mara [Leigh, Mara]

CHAPTER FIVE * * * Someone carried me into the bedroom and gently laid me out on the bed. Unsure of my body’s position, I barely felt conscious and might ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Auchincloss

I have neglected my journal for a week because of a disturbing episode which, through God’s grace, has now ended happily for most but not all. A group of slaves ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Designing the Love by Crystal Perkins
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Crystal Perkins [Perkins, Crystal]

Chapter 7 Quinn I spent the weekend with my parents in their hotel suite. I shut my phone off the whole time, because I didn’t want to see Zane trying ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Kathleen Founds [Founds, Kathleen]

Schizophrenics shuffled past, minds wrapped in terrible cocoons. Ms. Freedman didn’t seem to know what to do with her hands. “Do you have a cell phone?” she whispered. I handed ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Julia Elliott [Elliott, Julia]

I wake alone in the basement of the Skandha Center, calling out in the darkness for the others. I bang my shins against their empty cots. Upstairs in the dim ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Dazai, Osamu [Dazai, Osamu]

TARO THE WIZARD nce upon a time, in the village of Kanagi in Tsugaru Province, there lived a country squire by the name of Kuwagata Sosuke. Sosuke was forty-nine before ...
( Category: Humorous December 27,2014 )
A Great Deserted Landscape (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading) by Kjell Askildsen
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Kjell Askildsen [Askildsen, Kjell]

Author's Bio Kjell Askildsen was born in 1929 in Mandal, southern Norway. At the age of twenty-four, he published his first collection of short stories. In the 1960s and 1970s, ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Violation by Cath Staincliffe
epub |eng | | Author:Cath Staincliffe [Staincliffe, Cath]

The phone call came this morning, before I left for work. The police. No one we’d spoken to before. Telling me that Cassie’s mobile number was found in notes that ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tim Gautreaux

RESISTANCE Alvin Boudreaux had outlived his neighbors. His asbestos-sided house was part of a tiny subdivision built in the 1950s, when everybody had children, a single-lane driveway, a rotating TV ...
( Category: Welding December 27,2014 )

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