Short Stories
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Fink [Fink, Chris]

Lazy B The hair-and-nails place next door looks open, but the barbershop looks shut. The blinds are drawn and the red-and-white barber pole sits frozen. You try the door anyway. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Wilhelm Busch [Wilhelm Busch]

Translator’s Note First published in 1865, the same year in which Lewis Carroll produced Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz needs little introduction to German-speaking readers. The ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Peter Kispert [Kispert, Peter]

BE ALIVE We’re on our way to the city, finally, when Glen tells me that the chainsaw got him this time. He was out of ammo and extra lives, so ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-24 | Author:Beth Beaumont [Beaumont, Beth]

I see her one minute, and she’s laughing with her friend and having a good time. I love the way her lips close around the fork when she takes a ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn [Gellhorn, Martha]

AFTERWORD Martha was fifty-two when she discovered Africa; apart from a brief visit to the Duff Coopers in Algiers in 1943, it was an entire continent that she had never ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-24 | Author:Amber Sparks

The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines In LAS VEGAS, THE WOMAN HAD FOUND THE KIND OF LUCK she liked best. Her best luck involved invisibility, the kind that allowed people ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-27 | Author:Natasha Lester [Lester, Natasha]

Chapter Two ‘Evie!’ As the Lockharts stepped inside the ballroom of the Whitmans’ enormous home that evening, Charlie rushed over to greet them. He took Evelyn’s hand eagerly and kissed ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-06 | Author:Becca Fanning [Fanning, Becca]

Chapter 5 Ginger held the calculator in her hand and sighed. Her coffee cup was already half-drained beside her. Vanessa hadn’t even come in yet for work. Ginger rapped a ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-10-01 | Author:Sara Craven [Craven, Sara]

'Oh, no, I think it's good when a partner can be involved in a writer's career, at least at some level,' Penny said seriously. 'When he's absorbed in a book, ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Sara Craven [Craven, Sara]

The next day, she married Sandro in a ceremony so brief she could hardly believe it was legal. As they were pronounced man and wife, and he turned to her, ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Mary Jo Putney [Putney, Mary Jo]

* * * * Working gingerly to keep from being stabbed by needle-pointed leaves, Philip used a length of dark thread to attach the last silver paper ornament to the ...
( Category: Regency April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-23 | Author:Hope Stone [Stone, Hope]

Chapter 7: Tommy “I guess I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions,” she said as she pulled out a chair. “I just have a history that makes me a little cautious. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-26 | Author:Williamson, Eric Miles

Kickshaws —Hey we got a letter but on the envelope it says don’t open it should we. —Who’s it addressed to. —Occupant. —It’s for you. I never get letters. —No. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-08 | Author:Hope Stone [Stone, Hope]

Chapter 9 Anna I really liked Laura, Alistair’s cousin. They seemed close. I couldn’t help but notice that she was watching the two of us during dinner. I really hoped ...
( Category: Short Stories April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Nayrouz Qarmout [Qarmout, Nayrouz]

As the kitchen clock strikes noon, milk sprays upwards into the air. For a nanosecond of frozen time it mingles with moats of unignited potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. Something ...
( Category: Short Stories April 4,2020 )