Literary
epub |eng | | Author:Muriel Villanueva [Villanueva, Muriel]

It happened when we walked outside the church. It all started with, People are such pigs. On the sidewalk out front was your typical dumpster overflowing with dusty old furniture. ...
( Category: Literary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Melanie K. Hutsell

At the height of summer, I inhabited a dark house. My son and Meredith rustled in some of the rooms by day. But I was alone. My pillow stank of ...
( Category: Literary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Vivien Hampshire

Chapter Fourteen Nicci hated underground trains, especially crowded ones. Squashed in tight, with a sea of men in matching blue and white tops pressed around her, she felt a bit ...
( Category: Literary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:S. V. Berlin [S.V. Berlin]

7 Friday Bambi and Red Jelly There was no need for the umbrella Martin loaned her that morning. The day dawned with a holiday feel, viciously sunny with bouncy, fluffy ...
( Category: Literary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Barbara Sapienza

11 Blackie’s Pasture It’s well after 8:00 P.M. when she enters the crowded restaurant and looks around for her friends. Russell’s not there; Otto’s elsewhere. She hopes Malik will be ...
( Category: Literary February 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-12 | Author:Rebecca Pert [Pert, Rebecca]

23 October 1979 Bobby came home yesterday. I spent all weekend cleaning. Scrubbing and mopping and dusting, changing the sheets on the bed. I did a food shop too, stocked ...
( Category: Literary February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-15 | Author:Sara Mesa

One thing is for sure: Soon’s musical tastes have changed. Old Man catches her softly singing Why don’t you see it? Why don’t you feel it? I don’t know, I ...
( Category: Literary February 5,2023 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Elizabeth Fair [Fair, Elizabeth]

CHAPTER XIV One picnic is very like another, and it is usually the weather that makes or mars the day. When they set out the weather had been perfect, with ...
( Category: Literary February 5,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ali Mercer [Mercer, Ali]

* * * My sense of moral superiority did not last much longer. It didn’t feel like a decision to do something bad, though. It felt like a fait accompli. ...
( Category: Literary February 4,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Rooney

About the Author Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends and Normal People. She also contributed to the writing and production of the ...
( Category: Literary February 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Dawn Promislow

WE ALL HAD COLDS that winter. One after the other, the children, then Howard, who never got sick, then me. Josias started coughing too, I’d hear him at the back ...
( Category: Literary February 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-14 | Author:Carmel Harrington [Harrington, Carmel]

THIRTY-ONE Annie Napier, Hawke’s Bay Annie and Joe watched their two daughters sitting on the wooden swing, heads bent low together, shoulder to shoulder, as they swung gently backwards and ...
( Category: Literary January 31,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Hoffman

SEVEN DANCING IN THE DARK 1 At breakfast we had orange juice, Hostess cupcakes, and smiles. “I do believe,” said Starry as she rolled marijuana into a thin wheat-colored joint, ...
( Category: Literary January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Hoffman

Chapter Three THAT evening, as Esther the White began the Friday-night meal, as she prepared the salmon with lemon juice, scallions, and parsley, she looked out the kitchen window and ...
( Category: Literary January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kaya McLaren

thursday ETHEL 2012 As she always seemed to do, Ethel woke before everybody. During the days it seemed she was distracted enough to be more or less all right, and ...
( Category: Literary January 28,2023 )