Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-08-03 | Author:Michael Melgaard [Melgaard, Michael]

Chapter Fourteen Knocking woke David up the next morning. He’d fallen asleep on the couch with the blinds open; the rising sun shone in on him. He had sweat through ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense August 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-24 | Author:Emily Critchley [Emily Critchley]

21 1951 A WEEK LATER AND I’VE GOT myself a job in the hope Reg will leave me alone. I take Mrs Underwood’s baby out for an hour each afternoon ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense August 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:E. L. Doctorow [Doctorow, E. L.]

I CAN TELL YOU: Last weekend Andrew decided to see his child. Really! As you know I’ve been holding back, holding back, and the fact that you’ve never brought up ...
( Category: Psychological August 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Jan English Leary [Leary, Jan English]

7 Rabbit’s Foot George stabbed the broom at his ceiling, snagging a spider’s web, which stretched out and then bounced back, leaving filaments on his bristles. He shook the broom, ...
( Category: Short Stories August 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-15 | Author:Isabelle Autissier [Autissier, Isabelle]

It’s impossible to know what time it is—maybe the middle of the night. The silence is palpable. Louise isn’t sleeping; she’s tense, listening for the slightest creak or rustle to ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-09 | Author:Allen, Gilbert; [Allen, Gilbert]

Dog Days THE CHIHUAHUA, PERCHED six inches behind the property line, had been yapping, every three seconds, for the past half hour. My wife and I were finishing our Sunday ...
( Category: Satire August 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-15 | Author:Nick Fuller Googins

* * * The Managing Council offices happen to be in the Gowanus Green complex. To get there we ride a tram to a pedestrian bridge. Over the bridge to ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense August 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-30 | Author:Maura, Catharina [Maura, Catharina]

Chapter Thirty-Seven Valentina I check the time and sigh as I walk into the house at eleven in the evening. For days now, I’ve been avoiding Luca, working late and ...
( Category: Romance August 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Daoud, Hassan;Booth, Marilyn;

Your brother’s wife was here. Those were the words my wife said to me after turning aside from the door she had opened for me, and taking several steps toward ...
( Category: Psychological August 24,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Brooke Horvath (Editor), Irving Malin (Editor)

( Category: Romance August 24,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Pitoniak, Anna

A few weeks later, Willow finally agreed to meet me in person. She wasn’t saying yes to an on-camera interview yet, but this was the most important step before that. ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense August 23,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-27 | Author:L'Engle, Madeleine;

SEVEN They called Florida, Mac simply stating the facts in a flat, unemotional voice while Camilla listened on the bedroom extension. For a moment there was silence at the other ...
( Category: Psychological August 21,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-30 | Author:Megan Abbott [Abbott, Megan]

* * * • • • It was hard to imagine Jed amid such testosterone-driven fantasies, Jed who never seemed to care at all about the clichéd male pursuits: sports, ...
( Category: Psychological August 18,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Angela Winters [Winters, Angela]

8 “You gotta help me out here,” Richard said as he leaned against Billie’s desk. Billie looked up. “Are you kidding me? Richard, I’m already behind on this memo. I ...
( Category: Black & African American August 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:J. MacDougall Hay [J. MacDougall Hay]

Chapter Twenty-four TIMES WERE SO HARD that Peter the jeweller closed his shop, and all his clocks were stopped. Every Saturday he used to wind the clock in the tower ...
( Category: Satire August 17,2023 )