Short Stories
epub |eng | 2011-01-02 | Author:Stefan Zweig & Anthea Bell [Zweig, Stefan & Bell, Anthea]

Something else, however, happened at this time in Esther’s life, nothing in itself strange or unlikely, but it affected the depths of her being like a rising storm and left ...
( Category: Short Stories April 15,2014 )
epub | | 2010-05-18 | Author:Greene, Graham [Graham, Greene]

The Hint of an Explanation A long train journey on a late December evening, in this new version of peace, is a dreary experience. I suppose that my fellow traveller ...
( Category: Short Stories April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:Michael Cunningham [Cunningham, Michael]

The food came. They ate, talked about other things, threw the empty containers out. Pete went back to his office. Cat hung around a little longer, for no good reason. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:B. J. Novak [B. J. Novak]

The office was huge, and quiet. Windows looked out over all of Michigan, to Grand Rapids and beyond; there were so many windows, or more accurately so much window, that ...
( Category: Humorous April 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |ar | 2013-11-03 | Author:Hammett, Dashiell [Hammett, Dashiell]

He lowered his newspaper and turned his browned lean face toward her. His smile showed white, even teeth between hard lips. “Click?” His voice was metallic, but not unpleasant. “Clicked,” ...
( Category: Short Stories April 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]

“I’ve already had my invitation to take a ride.” Tennant bent forward. With an unbroken swing of his arms, he swept a chair up from the floor into my face. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

2 So he should have hated and feared Lion. He was thirteen then. He had killed his buck and Sam Fathers had marked his face with the hot blood, and ...
( Category: Classics April 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-01 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

V The Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he ...
( Category: United States April 12,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Pistols for Two; Other Stories

3 If the Viscount had harboured doubts of his mother's veracity, these were speedily dispelled. His cousin, far from having been kept in seclusion, seemed to him to be acquainted ...
( Category: Short Stories April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Steven Pressfield

STEVEN PRESSFIELD Book Seven An Instinct for the Kill 227 The Virtues of War Twenty COUNCILS OF WAR IT TAKES DARIUS TWENTY-THREE MONTHS to raise another army after Issus. As ...
( Category: Short Stories April 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

The Welcome Table for sister Clara Ward I’m going to sit at the Welcome table Shout my troubles over Walk and talk with Jesus Tell God how you treat me ...
( Category: Short Stories April 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

THERE WAS A RIVER There Was a River There was a river, and they were sitting beside it. It was the only river Marcella had seen in New Mexico. Actually ...
( Category: Authors April 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Shirley Jackson

LITTLE OLD LADY IN GREAT NEED Mademoiselle, September 1944 IT WAS LATE IN the afternoon, but even though she was tired from shopping all day, Kitty forced herself to alternate ...
( Category: Short Stories April 9,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Jackson, Shirley [Jackson, Shirley]

She had worked for Robert Shax for nearly eleven years. When she came to New York the Christmas she was twenty, a thin dark girl with neat clothes and hair ...
( Category: Short Stories April 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Anita Desai [Desai, Anita]

The chapters of the promised novel began to come in during the course of that summer, in large Manila envelopes that were always torn around the edges and had to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 6,2014 )