Short Stories
epub | | 2013-07-07 | Author:Collected Stories

The China Bowl I had long been on the look-out for one of the small houses at the south end of that delectable oblong called Barrett's Square, but for many ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

The husband of the woman from whom I rented my summer room played golf every weekend. On one of those August nights when no one can sleep and the sky ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

THE REMISSION WHEN IT became clear that Alec Webb was far more ill than anyone had cared to tell him, he tore up his English life and came down to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]

“YO, LISTEN UP,” the scrawny little man said. “This is interesting.” “I’m listening.” Malloy tried to look pleasant as he sat across from Lucius the snitch. Before they’d met, Ralph ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Lorrie Moore [Moore, Lorrie]

Its terribleness eluded her. Her lyrics weren’t sly or hip or smoky and tough but the demure and simple hopes of a mouse. She’d spent a decade barking up the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Chapter 4 ‘Well?’ said Major Riddle. It was twenty minutes later. The chief constable’s interrogative ‘Well?’ was addressed to the police surgeon, a lank elderly man with grizzled hair. The ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

VIII Harold Waring was down by the lake. He had been walking feverishly for over an hour, trying by sheer physical energy to still the clamour of despair that had ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )
MOBI, epub, pdf | | 2011-05-19 | Author:John Fowles

'I'm afraid I couldn't write about something I don't begin to understand.' With a sharp tug he finally detached the end he wanted. He passed behind the chair, and I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lilian Jackson Braun

What did Gus think about Tipsy? He thumped the milk carton and says to Porky: “Whatcha got in the kennebecker?” “New invention for killin’ rats,” Porky says. Gus peeked in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Tom Clancy

From the start, the Hercules had an unusual career within the U.S. military. The first operational employment of the C-130 came in 1957, when President Eisenhower dispatched troops of the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Stanislaw Lem

The Seventh Sally OR How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good The Universe is infinite but bounded, and therefore a beam of light, in whatever direction it may travel, ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:James van Pelt

Martin sat at the worktable, his hands wrapped around the back of his head, his forehead pressed against the scarred work surface. He didn’t look at Jake when he appeared ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-07 | Author:Piers Anthony

Chapter 8: ISLES OF WO Dor woke. He was on the bed in the chamber of Castle Zombie. On adjacent beds his father and son were stirring. What a chain ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |es | 2011-04-29 | Author:J.R. Rain

“Daddy says you can’t come see us tomorrow. That you are too busy to see us.” “That’s not true—” “Yes, it is true, Sam,” said Danny’s voice. He had, of ...
( Category: Supernatural March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |es | 2005-01-01 | Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

Danger watched Alexion as he sat at the small round table looking completely defeated. For a man who claimed to have no emotions whatsoever, he was definitely showing them now. ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )