epub |eng | 2024-01-30 | Author:Vanessa Miller

Chapter 24 The heat of summer had left them, and now the crisp, cool nights of fall were upon them. Louella and William were lying in bed; he had an ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-22 | Author:Sadeqa Johnson [Johnson, Sadeqa]

It was lunchtime when Gertrude pulled into the parking lot of the Shady Breeze Motel, a two-story, turquoise building with a white-and-red awning. The place looked like it needed a ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-30 | Author:Avery Cunningham [Cunningham, Avery]

It took nearly forty minutes for the train to leave. The ticket collectors, the porters, and even the conductors were all at a baffled loss for what to do. “I ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-02 | Author:Craig Shreve

17 In the school of the Jesuits, I learned I was a savage. The great ship I boarded after the Portuguese defeat hugged the coast for the first few days ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-07 | Author:Tia Williams [WILLIAMS, TIA]

In the early morning, Ricki opened her eyes to sunlight streaming through her window. Her cheek rested on his chest, her hand in his. She raised her head, seeing that ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Joan Vassar [Vassar, Joan]

Back at the house, Sunday was being pulled in many different directions. In the bedroom, they had her seated naked in front of the open window so she wouldn’t sweat. ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony N Kwamu [kwamu]

Chapter 17 It was nighttime. The inn that was located not far from the small lake was popular with cutthroats, soldiers, disgraced priests, ex-merchants, ex-officials, ex-soldiers, and lots of other ...

epub |eng | 2023-07-04 | Author:Zelda Lockhart

For the sake of any child born of his blood, B.J. had done the most valiant deed, gone into the vault of his memory, awakened by the sights and smells ...

epub |eng | 2022-12-23 | Author:Matt Ruff

The Woman in the Basement I never pictured Snow White as a redhead,” Marvin said. They were in the basement, standing before a glass coffin. Equal parts casket and cold ...

epub |eng | 2023-02-07 | Author:Sadeqa Johnson

CHAPTER TWENTY STILL THE WATER Eleanor Eleanor made herself a cup of chamomile tea and then carried it back into the den. Over the past few weeks, she had found ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-05 | Author:Kia Corthron [Corthron Kia]

A couple days later, I stroll up to Little Germany looking for Friedrich. There he is! sitting on the edge of the wooden sidewalk. How do ye, Friedrich! How do ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-12 | Author:Vanessa Riley

epub |eng | 2022-02-28 | Author:Lola Jaye [Jaye, Lola]

Lowra 1974 My eyes flickered open. She’d left the light on. I was in there. The attic. I wasn’t sure what time it was, but I hadn’t been downstairs in ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Naomi Finley [Finley, Naomi]

Out front of the general store, I stood by the closed carriage door, waiting for the masa. Inside the buggy, Miss Willow and Mary Grace laughed and carried on in ...

epub |eng | 2021-12-27 | Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud

Upper East Side, Fifty-Third Street Almost at the same time that Hannah was thinking of her, Leola was thinking of Hannah. She sat in her apartment on Fifty-Third Street, one ...