Short Stories
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-04-05 | Author:Ayn Rand & Leonard Peikoff

SECRETARIES, LANGLEY’S GUESTS, POLICEMEN Place Los Angeles, California Time Present; from afternoon to early evening of the following day Synopsis of scenes Prologue—Office of Anthony Farrow in the Farrow Film ...
( Category: Short Stories June 6,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-24 | Author:Rakesh, Mohan [Rakesh, Mohan]

HIS MEAL Translated by Kuswn Rashid Balo knew that the bus would not arrive for a long time; still her eyes kept looking at the road every moment as she ...
( Category: Short Stories June 6,2020 )
epub | | 2010-05-01 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

8. A week later, the robot walked in Arizona, a thousand miles away. He walked stiffly, and sometimes he fell down, and sometimes he clanked his ankle against an obstruction, ...
( Category: Anthologies June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

6 Afterword “No Smoking” appeared in the December 1974 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine under the title of “Confessions of an American Cigarette Smoker.” I'm growing ever more fanatical ...
( Category: Short Stories June 4,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Asher, Neal [Asher, Neal]

Neal Asher If you liked this short story, find out about my other books here: www.panmacmillan.com/author/nealasher For news on other great Science Fiction authors, competitions and more follow: twitter.com/ukTor First ...
( Category: Adventure June 4,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

VI By spe­cial re­quest the Doc­tor dropped Char­teris within a hun­dred yards of Merevale’s door. “Good night,” he said. “I don’t sup­pose you will value my ad­vice at all, but ...
( Category: Humorous May 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-12-23 | Author:Poul Anderson

* * * “You war against the sun­set-glow. The judg­ment fol­lows fast my lord!” quoted Dal­getty. He­ri­ots’ Ford was one of the few po­ems he liked. “Get­ting Ban­croft out of ...
( Category: Anthologies May 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-23 | Author:O. Henry

A Little Talk About Mobs “I see,” re­marked the tall gen­tle­man in the frock coat and black slouch hat, “that an­other street car mo­tor­man in your city has nar­rowly ex­caped ...
( Category: Short Stories May 23,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Herman Melville

Benito Cereno In the year 1799, Cap­tain Amasa De­lano, of Duxbury, in Mas­sachusetts, com­mand­ing a large sealer and gen­eral trader, lay at an­chor with a valu­able cargo, in the har­bor ...
( Category: Short Stories May 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Edwidge Danticat [Danticat, Edwidge]

Neah learned about Leve, the women’s organization, from me. My twenty-hour-a-week work-study job was in Career/Volunteer Services, and one of the first things I saw there on a bulletin board ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-12 | Author:Richard Ford

Jimmy Green—1992 They were in a taxi, on their way to the American Bar down General Leclerc, to watch the election returns. Rain had begun blowing sideways, three minutes past ...
( Category: Short Stories May 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-06 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

Then we begin to live together happily, go abroad, etc., etc. In short, in the end it seemed vulgar to me myself, and I began to put out my tongue ...
( Category: Short Stories May 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Oksana Zabuzhko [Zabuzhko, Oksana]

AN ALBUM FOR GUSTAV TRANSLATED BY NINA MURRAY He: When people ask me what the hardest part was, back during those days on the Maidan—and it’s usually foreigners who ask ...
( Category: Russian May 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 1996-09-30 | Author:Gina Berriault [Berriault, Gina]

At four the following afternoon, the hour of his appointment, Klipspringer, in high, anticipatory spirits, pulled the rope to the side of a small, carven door and set a large ...
( Category: Short Stories May 7,2020 )