Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

ALKMENE MY FATHER’S ESTATE lay in a lonely part of Jutland, and I was his only child. When my mother died he did not care to send me away to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-10-18 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

If one should compare the light of day to the life of man: sunrise to birth; sunset—the dropping down over the edge—to death; then as Ozzie Freedman wiggled through the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-12-31 | Author:Larry Brown [Brown, Larry]

NIGHT LIFE I decided a long time ago that it isn’t easy meeting them, not for me. Some guys can just walk up to a woman and start talking to ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon

( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jude DEVERAUX [DEVERAUX, Jude]

46 JUDE DEVERAUX at the end, when Taggert was to be the first to start down the aisle. He was to walk to the center, offer his arm to Karen, ...
( Category: Holidays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-10-29 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]

SO IT WAS THAT THE TRUTH OF CHRIST CAME TO THE PORCELAIN CITY Ammadon on the world of Arion, where the Order of Saint Judas Iscariot kept its House. Arion ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2013-07-21 | Author:Worlds That Weren't

“I was never so glad to hear good old-fashioned Imperial volley-fire…ai!” The last was a brief involuntary exclamation as Ranjit’s thick-fingered right hand pulled the arrow-stub free with one long ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Ramsey Campbell [Campbell, Ramsey]

The tower seemed not to be shrinking as quickly as it should. "Freud knows why," she scoffed at herself, but it made her feel as if the car wasn't moving ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Winterson, Jeanette]

It was my father’s house, and his father’s before him, and so on, back through history as though history were a family album. I flick through a few hundred years ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Welsh, Irvine [Welsh, Irvine]

SNOWMAN BUILDING PARTS FOR RICO THE SQUIRREL The silver squirrel undulated across the yard and scuttled up the bark of the large Californian Redwood tree which overhung the rickety wooden ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Irvine Welsh [Welsh, Irvine]

SNOWMAN BUILDING PARTS FOR RICO THE SQUIRREL The silver squirrel undulated across the yard and scuttled up the bark of the large Californian Redwood tree which overhung the rickety wooden ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]

She glanced at her watch… It was 9:23.
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Mary Balogh [Balogh, Mary]

Christmas Eve dawned gray and gloomy, and Viscount Buckley, surrounded by all the foolish sights of Christmas, his nostrils assailed by all the smells of it, felt his irritation return. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zadie Smith

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )