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Historical Adventures by Robert E. Howard
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 )
The Doll-Master by Joyce Carol Oates
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 )
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by J. Gerald Kennedy
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 )
Herland and Selected Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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 )
The First Christmas Tree by Henry Van Dyke
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 )
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1956-72 by Arthur C. Clarke
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 )
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-55 by Arthur C. Clarke
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 )
A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy
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 )
Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
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 )
The Novel of the Black Seal by Arthur Machen
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 )
Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets by Stephen Crane
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 )
An Evening at the Hotel: An Affair in 51 Rooms by Suanne Laqueur
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 )
Fallen Son: A Fallen Men Christmas Story (The Fallen Men) by Giana Darling
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 )
Self-Reference Engine by Toh EnJoe
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 )
How Santa Claus Came To Simpson's Bar by Bret Harte
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 )

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