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Between the Assassinations by Adiga Aravind
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Adiga, Aravind [Adiga, Aravind]

DAY FOUR: UMBRELLA STREET If you wish to do some shopping while in Kittur, allow yourself a few hours to wander through Umbrella Street, the commercial center of town. Here ...
( Category: Indian April 6,2014 )
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
epub |eng | 2009-04-04 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

THE NICE LITTLE PEOPLE It was a hot, dry, glaring July day that made Lowell Swift feel as though every germ and sin in him were being baked out forever. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2014 )
Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-04-04 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

That night, in his hotel room, Laird put in a long-distance call to his second wife, Selma, in a small house in Levittown, Long Island, New York, far, far away. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2014 )
Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
epub |eng | 2011-04-02 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

Spikes ONE AFTERNOON TOWARD the middle of April, Kohn’s lawyer, her patience exhausted, called and said she was giving him one last chance. He was to come into Chagrin Harbor ...
( Category: Short Stories April 3,2014 )
Rora by James Byron Huggins
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:James Byron Huggins [Huggins, James Byron]

Chapter 12 The Plain of Giovanni—three miles distant from the stronghold of the Waldenses—was black and swarming with a blanket of mercenaries, cavalry, cannon, and the militia of Piedmont. Over ...
( Category: Short Stories April 2,2014 )
Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Brothers Grimm
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Brothers Grimm [Grimm, Brothers]

THE BLUE LIGHT There once was a soldier who had faithfully served his king for many years. But when the war was over, the king said to the soldier, who ...
( Category: Multicultural March 31,2014 )
At the Jim Bridger: Stories by Ron Carlson
epub |eng | 2002-03-31 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

It was the first assembly we’d ever attended, and it would also be the last. Our custom was to spend assembly time alone in the middle of the football bleachers. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 31,2014 )
The Hotel Eden: Stories by Ron Carlson
epub |eng | 1997-05-17 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

NIGHTCAP I WAS FILING deeds, or rather, I had been filing deeds all day, and now I was taking a break to rest my head on the corner of my ...
( Category: Short Stories March 31,2014 )
Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 1977-05-16 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

28 At night still, I’d lie in my bed, but I couldn’t believe I’d made it. In the period before sleep when people do their best thinking and from which ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 31,2014 )
The Death Factory: A Penn Cage Novella (Kindle Single) by Iles Greg
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Iles, Greg [Iles, Greg]

Excerpt From NATCHEZ BURNING PROLOGUE “IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.” A great writer said that, and ...
( Category: Murder March 29,2014 )
The Death Factory by Iles Greg
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Iles, Greg [Iles, Greg]

Excerpt From NATCHEZ BURNING PROLOGUE “IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.” A great writer said that, and ...
( Category: Murder March 29,2014 )
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Lorrie Moore [Moore, Lorrie]

Now it is two and a half years since Annie left, and here Mack is with Quilty, traveling: their plan is to head through Chicago and St. Louis and then ...
( Category: Short Stories March 28,2014 )
Poirot Investigates: Hercule Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

II The next morning, hearing nothing from Poirot, I went out for a stroll, met some old friends, and lunched with them at their hotel. In the afternoon we went ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

A Brutal Murder in a Public Place At Gate C33 of Newark International Airport in a waiting area of seats facing curved glass windows and a heavily occluded sky beyond ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
Gateways 5 (VOY) by Christie Golden
epub |eng | 2001-10-14 | Author:Christie Golden [Golden, Christie]

CHAPTER 10 Torres was in heaven. Well, as close to heaven as she was going to get in this lifetime, anyway. Neelix, bless him, had come up with a brilliant ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )

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