Short Stories
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Chabon

Part II The Lost World The Little Knife ONE SATURDAY IN THAT last, interminable summer before his parents separated and the Washington Senators baseball team was expunged forever from the ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]

The stars jar as I sprint down the hill. Soon I’m down-wind of the tent-town stink and can hear their domestic disputes and their brats screaming in poor grammar. I’m ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

SPRING 13. Where the river is more blue? It was a time when the simplest foods contained threats, traps, and frauds. Not a day went by without some newspaper telling ...
( Category: Italian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]

Following dosing on the morning of Day 6, the last remaining low-dose animal (93555), the animal that earlier had attacked and ingested its own tooth, then sat for quite some ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-10-11 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

"The Oriental mind works in devious ways," said Harry. "Exactly," said Laird. "You've caught the whole spirit of the Orient in that one sentence, Harry." "They ship these things all ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Crocuses are up at the old house; daffodils bloom at the new. The children who had lived in the new house before us left Superballs under the radiators for us ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-09 | Author:Gonzales, Manuel [Gonzales, Manuel]

Barbara likes birds. She watches them. She’s a bird-watcher. She attends bird-watching events. She’s rather devoted to them. She donates money and time to the Audubon Society. For a while, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-09-29 | Author:Dori Sanders [Sanders, Dori]

: 12 : Bethel Petty wasn’t intentionally rude or dismissive, but she had a way of saying things that could be annoying, and sometimes even upsetting, as in her remark ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-04-14 | Author:Laurell K. Hamilton [Hamilton, Laurell K.]

HOUSE OF WIZARDS This is another story about domestic skills being more important than magic. I have no talent for organizing a household. None. Over the years I’ve come to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Jennifer Haigh [Haigh, Jennifer]

In the afternoon the rain stops. Agnes pulls on her boots and walks down the muddy lane to the road. Deer Run is high and winding, overlooking a deep valley. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Sirmione, even in early May, was full of other tourists. “The kids are here,” the couple said, continuing a joke that had developed in Venice and continued into Ravenna, where ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-28 | Author:Dorothy West [West, Dorothy]

THE MAPLE TREE Liz Terrell and Betsy Comden were summer neighbors. Their friendly relationship did not extend into winter, except for an exchange of Christmas cards, because their common interests ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2001-02-01 | Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]

Joysticks reopens on friday. It’s a madhouse. They’ve got the fog on. A bridge club offers me fifteen bucks to oil-wrestle Mel Turner. So I oil-wrestle Mel Turner. They offer ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amelia Gray

( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * THE INN OF THE TWO WITCHES--A FIND * * * This tale, episode, experience--call it how you will--was related in the fifties of the last century by ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )