Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

This is stupidity, this is melodrama, this is guilt. This will not have happened. But such things do happen. Some people founder, they are not helped in time. They are ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Jeffrey Eugenides [Eugenides, Jeffrey]

298 m y m i s t r e s s ’ s s pa r r o w i s d e a d had done a spell as ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [The Corn Maiden]

Wild! On Friday 7 P.M. news came BULLETIN-BREAKING NEWS SKATSKILL SUSPECT IN CUSTODY. It was Mr. Zallman! We shrieked with laughter. Had to press our hands over our mouths so ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Amy Bloom [Bloom, Amy]

NIGHT VISION For fifteen years, I saw my stepmother only in my dreams. After my father got sick in the spring of my sophomore year, dying fast and ugly in ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Kim Edwards [Edwards, Kim]

Aristotle’s Lantern 129 “I know how you feel,” I said, trying to stay calm. “You can’t possibly,” he snapped, and something in me broke loose. “You’re right,” I said, preparing ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Aimee Bender [Bender, Aimee]

23 My brother’s first formal disappearance—formal meaning someone else was around besides me—happened right before his high-school graduation. The day of. It was a gloomy June afternoon, skies a dirty ...
( Category: Coming of Age September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Russell Banks [Banks, Russell]

Comfort Leon LaRoche, the bank teller, tried to tell this story once to his friend and neighbor, Captain Dewey Knox (U.S. Army, ret.). Leon was in his late twenties when ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Lynne Tillman [Tillman, Lynne]

Lunacies The first astronaut to reach the Moon proclaimed: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong, his head entombed in a white bubble, his eyes ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-27 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

The Supper at Elsinore UPON the corner of a street of Elsinore, near the harbor, there stands a dignified old gray house, built early in the eighteenth century, and looking ...
( Category: Ghosts September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-11 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

Alice drove him to work the next day. She slowed the car halfway downtown; pulled to the curb and stopped it. Then she turned on the seat and looked at ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-29 | Author:H. P. Lovecraft & Robert Bloch [Lovecraft, H. P. & Bloch, Robert]

The Haunter Of The Dark (DEDICATED TO ROBERT BLOCH) I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the dark planets roll without aim— Where they roll in their horror unheeded, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-04-15 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges & Andrew Hurley [Borges, Jorge Luis & Hurley, Andrew]

The Aleph O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space. Hamlet, II:2 But they will teach us that Eternity is the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:James Carlos Blake [Blake, James Carlos]

TEXAS WOMAN BLUES “Doom is the House without the Door.” —EMILY DICKINSON I SUGARGIRL’S DADDY 1 Dolores has been living with her aunt and uncle for six months when the ...
( Category: Westerns September 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-20 | Author:Collins, Melissa [Collins, Melissa]

“Aren’t you going to work today, honey?” Mom asks as she peeks her head into my bedroom. A low groan from under my pillow is the only response she’s getting, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-21 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

5 Instead of going up to the Elephanta Suite, Dwight lingered in the lobby, and when he was certain that Shah was on his way home, he signaled for the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )