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The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Maeve Binchy

in Ireland, for heaven’s sake. They were very disapproving. They were not people who wrote letters much or made cross-Channel phone calls. But they disapproved nonetheless. Heav- ily. And when ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Silver Wedding by Maeve Binchy
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Maeve Binchy

Maureen The one thing Maureen's mother would have insisted on had she been alive was that the funeral be done right. Maureen knew exactly what that meant. It meant that ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Maeve Binchy

Red’s girl was coming the very next day it turned out, so they all had to do a spring clean on the back room. There were to be cups instead ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Victoria Line, Central Line by Maeve Binchy
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:Maeve Binchy

CENTRAL LINE SHEPHERD’S BUSH People looked very weary, May thought, and shabbier than she had remembered Londoners to be. They reminded her a little of those news-reel pictures of crowds ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Powers of Attorney by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

3 CLITUS TILNEY was sick at heart. He was sure that he would never again be able to think of Harry Reilley except in reference to the shabby tale told ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
False Gods by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

She was always alone when he came. There would be a bright fire and tea things on a little table, to be followed, after the consumption of a single cup, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
East of the West by Miroslav Penkov
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Miroslav Penkov [Penkov, Miroslav]

CROSS THIEVES A girl with no breasts storms inside the café to tell us the government has fallen and there will be no school today. Someone throws a beer bottle ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A McKillip
epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Patricia A McKillip

The Snow Queen Neva entered late. She wore white satin that clung to her body like white clings to the calla lily. White peacock feathers sparkling with faux diamonds trailed ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks
epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Russell Banks [Banks, Russell]

BLUE Ventana steps off the number 33 bus at 103rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue in Miami Shores. It’s almost 6:00 P.M., and at this time of year the city ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
If the River Was Whiskey by T.C. Boyle
epub |eng | 1990-04-30 | Author:T.C. Boyle [Boyle, T. Coraghessan]

As he lay in his pup tent that night, his limbs entwined in the girl’s—her name was either Vidaluz or Concepción, he couldn’t remember which—Robert Jordan thought of his grandmother. ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Thomas Ligotti [Ligotti, Thomas]

II I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
Noctuary by Thomas Ligotti
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Thomas Ligotti [Ligotti, Thomas]

Mad Night of Atonement A Future Tale Once more from the beginning; once more until the end. You know who Dr. Francis Haxhausen was and how his disappearance affected the ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Thomas King [King, Thomas]

When Milton got home, his mother was waiting for him. “So,” she said, “what did your grandfather think of your idea?” “He liked it.” “You know, stuff like that might ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Davis Lydia
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Davis, Lydia [Davis, Lydia]

A Double Negative At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:R. K. Narayan

A SHADOW Sambu demanded, ‘You must give me four annas to see the film tomorrow.’ His mother was horrified. How could this boy! She had been dreading for six months ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )

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