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The Thing On The Doorstep by H. P. Lovecraft
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:H. P. Lovecraft

Chapter 5 It was in the night—after that second evening—that stark, utter horror burst over me and weighted my spirit with a black, clutching panic from which it can never ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2014 )
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

At about ten o’clock the news came. Thinking about such things afterwards, you never can remember quite what transpired. Someone comes in; a whisper starts; suddenly everyone knows what has ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2014 )
When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories by Ringwald Molly
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Ringwald, Molly [Ringwald, Molly]

WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren’t facing it? ...
( Category: Short Stories September 2,2014 )
Mandarins by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa [Akutagawa, Ryunosuke]

Though he too was choked with dark grief, Otsushū could not but feel unease at what seemed amidst it all to be an excessive display or, at the very least, ...
( Category: Surrealism September 1,2014 )
Night Soul and Other Stories by Joseph McElroy
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Joseph McElroy [McElroy, Joseph]

Treading water, my hand upon the overturned canoe, I heard laughter to the north and recalled my paddle. Despairing very generally of my life, I went under and came up ...
( Category: Short Stories August 25,2014 )
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Sherman Alexie

The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above DURING THE SUMMER OF 1976, the city of Seattle was beginning to change from the barbarous seaport of loggers, sailors, and Indians ...
( Category: Native American Studies August 24,2014 )
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Sherman Alexie [Alexie, Sherman]

2. On TV, Uri Geller was bending spoons With just his mind. “Wow,” I said. “That’s so cool.” Then, three days later, as I browsed through Rick’s Pawn Shop, I ...
( Category: Short Stories August 24,2014 )
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Sherman Alexie [Alexie, Sherman]

INDIAN COUNTRY LOW MAN SMITH STEPPED off the airplane in Missoula, Montana, walked up the humid jetway, and entered the air-conditioned terminal. He was excited that he was about to ...
( Category: Native American Studies August 24,2014 )
Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Episode Six Paris, France Harry Burkhart was the golf pro at the Scantic Hills Country Club in Lexington, Massachusetts. His wife Rachel was an ex-model and a well-known figure skater. ...
( Category: Short Stories August 23,2014 )
Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

And so the wife knew nothing of what happened until she came home with her new baby, who was born full-term and healthy—which was more than people had hoped for—and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 21,2014 )
Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-08-20 | Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee]

And so the wife knew nothing of what happened until she came home with her new baby, who was born full-term and healthy—which was more than people had hoped for—and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 21,2014 )
The collected stories by Theroux Paul
epub |eng | 1997-08-20 | Author:Theroux, Paul [Theroux, Paul]

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS (i): THE CONSUL'S FILE She said, 'You should be ashamed of yourself. I'm fifty-two years old.' 'And not that either,' I said. 'Your payment will be a picture. ...
( Category: Short Stories August 21,2014 )
The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro by Paul Theroux
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

III. Seeing Truman MOST DAYS in Medford nothing happened—or the same thing happened. But the day Harry Truman’s train made a whistle stop at Medford Station, everything happened, and a ...
( Category: Short Stories August 21,2014 )
Marine Park: Stories by Chiusano Mark
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-23 | Author:Chiusano, Mark [Chiusano, Mark]

FOR YOU Because she is not with you, you get off the train, late one night, and you go to the bar. The bar is on Bergen and off Smith ...
( Category: Short Stories August 21,2014 )
Paradise Tales by Geoff Ryman
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Geoff Ryman [Ryman, Geoff]

Then he adds, “I have solved it.” He looks like a little boy with a new toy. Finally I get it. “Oh! Radiation! Sorry, of course, ultraviolet. You’re interested in ...
( Category: Short Stories August 21,2014 )

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