Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-04-27 | Author:David Moody [Moody, David]

He stood up, smoothed the creases out of his dark blue dress, and looked himself up and down in the full-length mirror to his right. God I look good, he ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]

* * * • Coir fiber. • Dirt from garden below the balcony. • Dark hairs, curly. No bulb attached. • Bit of rubber, black, possibly from sole of shoe. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

POSTCARD Yesterday afternoon, yesterday, I was going along the street to the Post Office, thinking how sick I was of snow, sore throats, the whole dragged-out tail-end of winter, and ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]

THE BOOBY SQUIRE. A long time elapsed, said Buckthorne, without my receiving any accounts of my cousin and his estate. Indeed, I felt so much soreness on the subject, that ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-12 | Author:Simon R. Green [Green, Simon R]

The last two items were easy. Deconsecrated host soaked in virgin’s urine and a fine powder made from the crushed wings of wee flower faeries. Women use the strangest things ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

“I didn’t write these letters.” “Aren’t you her?” “No. I don’t know who she is. I don’t know.” “Why did you take them?” “I didn’t understand. I didn’t know what ...
( Category: Canadian November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

What Austin wants Karin to do is clear everything out. Even his books, his old typewriter, the pictures of his wife and children. His son lives in Denver, his daughter ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Wodehouse, P.G. [Wodehouse, P.G.]

‘Failed to win! Why, he was so far behind that he nearly came in first in the next race.’ ‘Tut!’ said old Bittlesham. ‘Tut is right,’ I agreed. Then the ...
( Category: Humorous November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

JESSE AND MERIBETH In high school, I had a tender, loyal, boring friendship with a girl named MaryBeth Crocker. I gave myself up to it, as I did to the ...
( Category: Domestic Life November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

“I didn’t write these letters.” “Aren’t you her?” “No. I don’t know who she is. I don’t know.” “Why did you take them?” “I didn’t understand. I didn’t know what ...
( Category: Canadian November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

And one morning the truck did not come. One morning, of course, the job was all finished, the well capped, the pump reinstated, the fresh water marvelled at. There were ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-08-25 | Author:Carver, Raymond [Carver, Raymond]

"Stunned him?" the barber said. "You know, stun him," the guard said. "It was a gut shot. It just like stuns him. So he drops his head and begins this ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Laura Lippman [Laura Lippman]

THE SHOESHINE MAN’S REGRETS Bruno Magli?” “Uh-uh. Bally.” “How can you be so sure?” “Some kids get flash cards of farm animals when they’re little. I think my mom showed ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Munro, Alice [Munro, Alice]

Providence Rose had a dream about Anna. This was after she had gone away and left Anna behind. She dreamed she met Anna walking up Gonzales Hill. She knew she ...
( Category: Short Stories November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Alan Bennett [Bennett, Alan]

October 1981 The curtain is drawn aside this morning and Miss S. still in what I take to be her nightclothes talks of ‘the discernment of spirits’ that enabled her ...
( Category: British & Irish November 6,2014 )