Short Stories
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Vestal, Shawn [Vestal, Shawn]

Coming home from work four days later, Bradshaw swung his car into the driveway, and the headlights washed over two spectral shapes in the grainy dusk. The missionaries. Pope had ...
( Category: Short Stories July 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Molly Pinto Madigan [Madigan, Molly Pinto]

Everyone Else has Two Eyes by Nicki Vardon Mama Louhi carved the meat on the dinner table, but the knife could have scraped against my bones and it would have ...
( Category: Short Stories July 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip K Dick

FOSTER, YOU'RE DEAD SCHOOL WAS AGONY, as always. Only today it was worse. Mike Foster finished weaving his two watertight baskets and sat rigid, while all around him the other ...
( Category: Anthologies July 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tom Franklin

“I wish I knew—cheers—what to tell you.” I laugh. “What I wanted you to tell me was that you and Prissy never do it, either. At least then we’d be ...
( Category: Short Stories July 16,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

She touches his arm. “Excuse me,” she says. “Did you just buy the contents of this unit? At the auction?” He smiles at her, opens wide his big blue eyes. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Beckett, Samuel [Beckett, Samuel]

Walking Out ONE fateful fine Spring evening he paused, not so much in order to rest as to have the scene soak through him, out in the middle of the ...
( Category: Short Stories July 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-07-11 | Author:Amy Bloom

Julia starts cooking at six a.m. Early Thanksgiving morning is the only time she will have to herself. The rest of the day will be a joy, most likely, and ...
( Category: Short Stories July 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Thea Harrison [Harrison, Thea]

Chapter Four * * * The sun felt hot on his head and shoulders as he crossed the asphalt expanse toward the other two boys, and he burned with energy. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

THE WHITE SOX were a repulsive bunch of taciturn midgets whose throwing arms seemed attached to stolid blocks of steel. Whereas most pitchers were like supple human fly rods, the ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

ELISHA HOSPITAL THEY ARE building a new wing, but nevertheless it is quiet. On instructions from the contractor the men work slowly, almost silently. With each board or frame it ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

4 ON THE way back to the factory, heaters puffing over limp, exhausted men heading once more into endless night and work, Marshall had a luminous memory and, like an ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:James Purdy [Purdy, James]

RAPTURE “Iwouldn’t have known you!” Mrs. Muir spoke to her brother. “You’ve grown so tall, and you’re so deeply tanned. Oh, Kent, it’s really you, then?” Kent put down his ...
( Category: Short Stories July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Beth Wiseman [Wiseman, Beth]

Alyssa had missed Brendan more than she’d ever admit to anyone, and knowing that left a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach. She didn’t want to miss him. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:A. S. Byatt [Byatt, A. S.]

ON THE DAY THAT E. M. FORSTER DIED This is a story about writing. It is a story about a writer who believed, among other things, that time for writing ...
( Category: Short Stories July 4,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Thomas Mann [Mann, Thomas]

Four Day after day now the god with the flaming cheeks soared upward naked, driving his team of four fire-breathing horses through heaven’s acres, his yellow ringlets fluttering wild in ...
( Category: Occult July 2,2014 )