Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Lutz [Lutz, John]

The Volkswagen's oil-starved engine beat like a busy machine shop as I drove past Marlville's exclusive shopping area of boutiques, service stations bordered by artificial green grass and shrubbery that ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

BUSHWHACK BAIT When dusk had fallen, he mounted the black and worked his way down Calfpen toward Fossil Springs. As he rode, he was considering his best course. Whether taken ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-01-21 | Author:William Gibson [Gibson, William]

The Winter Market It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterinmate gray. But then there are ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2013-07-07 | Author:Collected Stories

The China Bowl I had long been on the look-out for one of the small houses at the south end of that delectable oblong called Barrett's Square, but for many ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

He was pretty certain as he slipped out quietly into the street that he should find it shut and locked, for he knew the door well, and had so rarely ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Sandra Cisneros [Cisneros, Sandra]

* Enrique Aragón was what you would call un hombre bonito. A pretty man. He had fulfilled his obligation and chosen a profession honorable to his family. That was all ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE * * * Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

The husband of the woman from whom I rented my summer room played golf every weekend. On one of those August nights when no one can sleep and the sky ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

THE REMISSION WHEN IT became clear that Alec Webb was far more ill than anyone had cared to tell him, he tore up his English life and came down to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-24 | Author:Robbins, Tom [Robbins, Tom]

The problem with Christianity is it’s the single most reactionary force in human history. I don’t even know what is in second place, it’s so far in front. And I ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * CHAPTER III. * * * It was for the elucidation of a mystery in one of these works that I first tried Mrs. Monarch. Her husband came ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf, azw3 | | 2010-07-05 | Author:Sedaris, David [David, Sedaris,]

Santa Land Diaries * * * This week my least favorite elf is a guy from Florida whom I call “The Walrus.” The Walrus has a handlebar mustache, no chin, ...
( Category: Playwriting March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]

“YO, LISTEN UP,” the scrawny little man said. “This is interesting.” “I’m listening.” Malloy tried to look pleasant as he sat across from Lucius the snitch. Before they’d met, Ralph ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Lorrie Moore [Moore, Lorrie]

Its terribleness eluded her. Her lyrics weren’t sly or hip or smoky and tough but the demure and simple hopes of a mouse. She’d spent a decade barking up the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Chapter 4 ‘Well?’ said Major Riddle. It was twenty minutes later. The chief constable’s interrogative ‘Well?’ was addressed to the police surgeon, a lank elderly man with grizzled hair. The ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )