Action & Adventure Fiction
azw3 |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Suzette Haden Elgin [Elgin, Suzette Haden]

Chapter 8 Responsible sat at her desk, the private account books before her, and worked, doggedly. It was work that had needed doing before she had left the Castle in ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Jeffrey Ford

19 Back in Anotine’s bedroom, I had only to tell her my idea of using the technology of the metallic chair as some sort of weapon, and she immediately came ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-01 | Author:D.S. Smith [Smith, D.S.]

Chapter 30 Lin Lee decided the best solution to her dilemma was the one that had always served her best in the past. Deceit! Anything but positive news at this ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Brian W. Aldiss [Aldiss, Brian W.]

They had driven in silence for some miles before he dared to ask about the progress of the Linwood boys. Their sons seemed always more a source of anxiety than ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-09 | Author:Michael Symmons Roberts & Paul Farley [Roberts, Michael Symmons]

It’s either the fridge, or the red wheelbarrow. Those are the two William Carlos Williams poems everyone knows. Two of the most perfect short poems ever written. They are like ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Jeff Vandermeer [Vandermeer, Jeff]

The Old Man had told the Strange Bird he had lied to her because she was so beautiful. He had lied to her about the prison and his place in ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1933-01-01 | Author:Conrad Aiken [Aiken, Conrad]

III —Perhaps, after all, I’d better go. I’m afraid you were busy, old man. And I think it’s stopped snowing. —No—I don’t think it has. What about a drink. —Well—well—— ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Andrew Krivák [Krivák, Andrew]

THE MOUNTAIN RANGE TOWERED SNOWCAPPED and dusk-lit to the north when they emerged from the forest and stopped at the river. They could hear the rumble of the course for ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lea Falls [Falls, Lea]

Why didn’t the ancestors use wells as ethereal ports? All Martín would have to do was yell loud enough and receive wisdom in a bucket. If you poke Richard in ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-19 | Author:Hugo Gernsback [Gernsback, Hugo]

It took me almost half the day to convince myself that what had happened the night before was just a dream. It wasn’t like any other dream I’d ever had, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Devin Johnston [Johnston, Devin]

KID Before I’ve shed my scarf and coat, she’s on me, shouting Kid! We’re late! Like surf, she batters around my knees, aggressive joy, insistent need. Her greeting, mock-tyrannical, initiates ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:T.F. Powys

CHAPTER XXI ‘OLD LANTERN’ AT the sign of ‘The Puss and Bottle,’ the inn by the road to Maidenbridge, where the labourers of South Egdon used to meet in good ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-12 | Author:Jason Anspach & J.N. Chaney [Anspach, Jason]

Chapter Nineteen My thoughts are much clearer the next morning. I pour myself a huge bowl of Apple Jacks even though I have no idea why kids like it. It ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Edward Lucas White [White, Edward Lucas]

Instinctively I turned the packet face down as I handed it to him. He took it gracefully and in his totally toneless voice said: ‘Thank you very much!’ As he ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Édouard Levé

You wrote a collection of verses, brief and condensed, like your life. You told nobody about them. Your wife discovered them after your death in your desk drawer: Ferns caress ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )