Short Stories
epub |eng | | Author:Robert E. Howard

* * * THE LION OF TIBERIAS ~ CHAPTER 1 THE BATTLE IN THE MEADOWLANDS of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the ...
( Category: Fantasy March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

She thought— No, but you can push me overboard. In an instant, it could happen. No one would see. No one would hear. The sound of revelry on the lower ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1994-03-16 | Author:J. Gerald Kennedy

CHAPTER XX THE chief was as good as his word, and we were soon plentifully supplied with fresh provision. We found the tortoises as fine as we had ever seen, ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Three Thanksgivings Andrew’s letter and Jean’s letter were in Mrs. Morrison’s lap. She had read them both, and sat looking at them with a varying sort of smile, now motherly ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-26 | Author:Henry Van Dyke [Unbekannt]

After a while the road began to open out a little. There were spaces of meadow-land, fringed with alders, behind which a boisterous river ran, clashing through spears of ice. ...
( Category: Christmas March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1973-04-29 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C.]

Sunjammer The enormous disc of sail strained at its rigging, already filled with the wind that blew between the worlds. In three minutes the race would begin, yet now John ...
( Category: Anthologies March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1973-04-29 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C.]

The Sentinel The next time you see the full Moon high in the south, look carefully at its right-hand edge and let your eye travel upwards along the curve of ...
( Category: Anthologies March 16,2020 )
epub |nor | 2014-03-15 | Author:Thomas Hardy

CHAPTER V Mr. Heddegan forgave the coldness of his bride’s manner during and after the wedding ceremony, full well aware that there had been considerable reluctance on her part to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Lawson

THE BUSH-FIRE .................. I SQUATTER AND SELECTOR Wall was a squatter and a hard man. There had been long years of drought and loss, and then came the rabbit pest—the ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Machen

THE STATEMENT OF WILLIAM GREGG. F.R.S., ETC. .................. IT IS MANY YEARS SINCE the first glimmer of the theory which is now almost, if not quite, reduced to fact dawned ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

Chapter 11 On a corner a glass-fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the pavements. The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-31 | Author:Suanne Laqueur [Laqueur, Suanne]

Room 26 They kissed and he touched her, up to his knuckles in her velvet depths. His mind was still fluctuating between their high school scenario and the forty-something reality. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Giana Darling [Darling, Giana]

Cressida and I helped him get clean. He didn’t want us with him in the bathroom, but we turned on the shower, gathered towels, a pair of Z’s socks that ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-16 | Author:Toh EnJoe [EnJoe, Toh]

Of course it hardly need be said that the indignation of the giant corpora of knowledge did not stop here. They were not that upset that the defensive barriers had ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-21 | Author:Bret Harte [Unbekannt]

In the great quiet that seemed to have fallen upon the house the sigh of the near pines and the drip of leaves without was very distinct. Johnny's voice, too, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )