Short Stories
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:George Pelecanos

MAYBELLINE WALKER lived in one of the apartment houses that lined 15th Street along the green of Meridian Hill, which many in the city now called Malcolm X Park. Drugged-out-looking ...
( Category: Police Procedurals May 30,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Hassan Blasim [Blasim, Hassan]

A Thousand and One Knives 1 At noon Jaafar the referee was waiting at the end of the lane, his army binoculars around his neck and a soccer ball in ...
( Category: War May 30,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng, eng | 1989-05-31 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]

I look at the word Love and then I underline it. Then I see the word backyard. Is it one word or two? I DRIVE through farm country, through fields ...
( Category: Short Stories May 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Omar Tyree [Tyree, Omar]

As soon as the photographer left out the door, Arnold walked over and peeped out the keyhole before he locked it. Gabrielle eyed the sly, old publisher from the bed ...
( Category: Short Stories May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-30 | Author:Kellerman, Faye [Kellerman, Faye]

Tendrils Of Love “Tendrils of Love” falls under the category of “be careful what you wish for,” especially in this modern-day age of instantaneous communication via the wireless highway. It ...
( Category: Short Stories May 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN WHEN R., the famous novelist, returned to Vienna early in the morning, after a refreshing three-day excursion into the mountains, and bought a newspaper at ...
( Category: German May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

Slow footsteps and slapping sounds came from amidships; the sailors were beginning to scour the deck. He started as if caught in a guilty act, and his strained face looked ...
( Category: Short Stories May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-18 | Author:Judith McNaught [McNaught, Judith]

"I didn't want this!" Julianna was babbling a quarter of an hour later as she was shoved roughly into her new husband's coach. He had not spoken a word except ...
( Category: Short Stories May 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-03 | Author:Jack Ketchum

Finally, he heard his name. He got up and saw that they’d all been sleeping, the sound of his name and the sliding metal door blinking everyone suddenly awake. The ...
( Category: Short Stories May 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla [Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla]

Then they were working on him, and he was carted off again, and again he was surrounded by green trees, but this time he was woken by a noise: his ...
( Category: Short Stories May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Robert Coover [Coover, Robert]

7 Martin worked late in the office, clearing up the things that needed to be done before the next day, routine matters, yet part of the uninterrupted necessity that governed ...
( Category: Short Stories May 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Thomson, June [Thomson, June]

THE CASE OF THE FRIESLAND OUTRAGE I It was, I recall, late one stormy evening in November 1894, some months after Sherlock Holmes’ miraculous return from death at the hands ...
( Category: Short Stories May 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:June Thomson [Thomson, June]

2 There are several references to Sherlock Holmes’ encyclopedia, sometimes referred to as his ‘commonplace book’. In the ‘Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’, Dr Watson speaks of it as ‘the ...
( Category: Short Stories May 13,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-07 | Author:Colm Tóibín [Tóibín, Colm]

Over supper, while Nuria was upstairs, having taken the children to bed, and there was a strained silence at the table, Carme mentioned that she thought she might drive into ...
( Category: Short Stories May 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Garth Stein

EVAN WORKS HARD for the next few days. Not hard at his job, hard at Dean. He tries to entertain Dean as thoroughly as possible. Nary a moment passes without ...
( Category: Humorous May 10,2014 )