Contemporary
epub |eng | | Author:Alexis Jenni

Novel V The war in this bloody garden THERE IS NO CITY in the world that Salagnon despised more than Saigon. The horrendous everyday heat and the noise. To breathe ...
( Category: Contemporary September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-31 | Author:Naomi Alderman

The shameful suspicion unrolled, binding them together silently and firmly. Each looked at the other two to ensure that they had fully understood the significance of the remarks. They looked ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Will Allison

CHAPTER SIX 2001 Lyle Some of the other kids are already doing addition, but Claire’s having trouble with basic counting. One, two, three, four, six, five, sixteen, seventeen, eleventeen. Holly ...
( Category: Contemporary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-31 | Author:Cathy Gohlke [Gohlke, Cathy]

Twenty-One Minutes passed before the window creaked open. It sounded as though someone climbed over the sill. Soft footfalls padded across the room, came near the bed—and I knew they ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Delany

SAMBO’S TALE: Hey, take a rest, girl. Come on sit out here on the steps with me a while. What are you gonna do, crawl back in there after them? ...
( Category: Contemporary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Joanna Rakoff

ten Sadie Peregrine was pregnant. This was big news. For many reasons, not the least of which being that she wasn’t yet married—Rose Peregrine was going to lose her shit, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 31,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Nancy Star [Star, Nancy]

Up in their room, Mimi asked Ginger if she thought Charlie was okay and Ginger said yes. “Are you positive,” Mimi pressed her, “or are you just saying that?” “Positive,” ...
( Category: Literary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-31 | Author:Cathy Gohlke [Gohlke, Cathy]

MA AND AUNT SASSY laid Miz Laura out real nice in the front parlor. Joseph Henry had already made the casket weeks before: solid mahogany, polished to a fine sheen ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Deanna Ashford [Deanna Ashford]

7 ‘I WISH THAT you didn’t have to go, Lucius,’ Sirona said, as she watched her lover walk across their bedroom. He looked delicious stark naked and she couldn’t help ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Tommaso Landolfi [Landolfi, Tommaso]

7 “What do you mean—and yet,” Nena had asked coldly. “What are you saying? Do you realize that you are blaspheming?” Lilla had timidly ventured. And Bellonia grumbled something to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 31,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Horacio Quiroga

Juan Darién Herein is told the tale of a tiger who was raised and educated among men and whose name was Juan Darién. Dressed in pants and a shirt he ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Schoemperlen [Diane Schoemperlen ]

Shopping On Wednesday afternoon we went to the mall. It was my idea, one that I suggested over lunch with some trepidation, well aware of the possibility that inviting the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Fiona Maazel

Twenty-five Every gathering has a core guest who thinks she can’t possibly outstay her welcome. Tonight we have three: Wanda, Eric, Marcus. The talk is about Tabu, which is still ...
( Category: Contemporary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-31 | Author:Sylvia Torti

“The bird’s syrinx is like your larynx,” he told them. “When you exhale to speak, air is pushed from your lungs past flaps of skin in your larynx. The flaps ...
( Category: Contemporary August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ashley Antoinette

12 It was a sad day when friends became enemies, and as Zya sat on the bench in the middle of Central Park, she dreaded what she was about to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2017 )