Short Stories
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Kelley Armstrong [Armstrong, Kelley]

SEVEN Our mutt’s name was Douglas Eaton. He’d offered it to Clay the night before, which was good, because Clay couldn’t ask without seeming to take a friendly interest. Pack ...
( Category: Short Stories November 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Elizabeth McCracken [McCracken, Elizabeth]

In earlier years, Sylvia had been a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other person. When disasters happened (her mother had taught her) you strode firmly in the opposite direction, because calamity followed catastrophe followed disaster. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Delia Sherman [Sherman, Delia]

“Ooh, listen to the green-eyed monster,” Silver cooed. “Don’t be jealous, honey. Ophelia’s the best. Nobody understands plants like Ophelia.” “I’m not jealous,” I said with dignity. “I’m wistful. There’s ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stuart Dybek

The Caller Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else. —Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul The phone is ringing in the crummy downstairs ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Tony Earley

Yard Art SHE LIVED ALONE NOW, in a big house in Brentwood bought with the royalties of a bad country music song her husband had sung. When her husband moved ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Maxim Gorky

MAKAR CHUDRA A COLD wet wind blew from the sea, wafting over the steppes the pensive melody of the splashing surf and the rustle of shrubbery on the beach. Now ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Thomas McGuane [McGuane, Thomas]

They could set their clocks by the passing of Mrs. Callahan’s humped figure. “Hasn’t that thing healed yet?” yelled Rita from the doorway. They could just make out a streak ...
( Category: Short Stories November 19,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

11. THE REBEL CAMP The savage lion was sated then. “What means this visit to my den?” He asked with gentle courtesy. —A. SUMAROKOV [1] I left the general and ...
( Category: Russian November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Nikolai Gogol

THE PORTRAIT PART I NOWHERE did so many people pause as before the little picture-shop in the Shtchukinui Dvor. This little shop contained, indeed, the most varied collection of curiosities. ...
( Category: Eastern November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Otto Penzler [Penzler, Otto]

Addendum Afterward, when it was possible to look back on the whole amazing fabric of plot and event, Mr. Ellery Queen said, “The scheme would have been utterly impossible except ...
( Category: Crime November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-08 | Author:Neil Gaiman [Gaiman, Neil]

16. Only the End of the World Again It was a bad day: I woke up naked in the bed with a cramp in my stomach, feeling more or less ...
( Category: Ghosts November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:H. P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H P]

( Category: Short Stories November 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Craig Johnson

TOYS FOR TOTS She has always enjoyed pushing buttons; I think she got it from her mother, who was always quick to punch the ones in elevators. She likes gadgets—phones, ...
( Category: Westerns November 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Peter Selgin [Selgin, Peter]

THE SEA CURE SHE WAS THE LAST PERSON off the bus. Clarke stood across the street in the zocalo, watching it unload its cargo of brown-skinned passengers, when she appeared, ...
( Category: Short Stories November 17,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Marquis de Sade

The honest Monsieur de Corville had not sat through this tale without being prodigiously moved by it. As for Madame de Lorsange, whose sensibility, as we have said, had not ...
( Category: French November 14,2014 )