Literary
epub |eng | 2019-10-18 | Author:Francine Howarth [Howarth, Francine]

Eleven ~ How unfortunate the weather had turned against his proposed liaison with the delightful Miss Darcy. Two whole days of foul weather whilst at Chatsworth, and then his return ...
( Category: Regency April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-19 | Author:M Dressler

“No one’s here.” Bill closes the café door, confused. Harold is talking to Su Kwon. “You must be thinking we’re a bunch of liars, Su.” I’m back in the present, ...
( Category: Ghosts April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:André Aciman

FOURTH NIGHT What is your hell?” I had planned to ask her. It would have been my way of drawing her out and helping her lower her defenses. I liked ...
( Category: Holidays April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Anne Charnock [Charnock, Anne]

It’s my fourth farmhouse dinner, and I’ve been thinking about it all day like everyone else. Before I reach the courtyard, I smell chicken roasting on the spit in the ...
( Category: Dystopian April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tariq Shah

II It was a Wednesday and I’d gone to the Food Bazaar, even though it was farther than Food Town, because it had a weekly special on gourmet frozen pizza. ...
( Category: Urban Life April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Kerry Barrett [Barrett, Kerry]

Chapter 27 Lizzie Fiona Willoughby was an energetic woman in her late sixties. She lived in a large house that was full of family memories. I liked her immediately. She ...
( Category: Cozy April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Matthew Norman [Norman, Matthew]

* * * — “Which one are you trying on first?” she asked. Jessica sat in an uncomfortable chair, looking at Amber’s feet at the bottom of the changing-room door. ...
( Category: Family Life April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Taylor Brown

* * * Anthony led her through the place. There was the Bengal tiger, Malooh, pacing back and forth in his cage, back and forth. A paling specter, meatless, his ...
( Category: Southern April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary South

* * * There’s another mass shooting, causing everyone to forget about the local news-channel shooting. Footage of this mass shooting isn’t uploaded, but the shooter did post a clip ...
( Category: Short Stories April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Romesh Gunesekera

In the still air, the shrill alarm of a cricket spooked my horse and I made my way towards the pond on foot. At the bund, the laughter of light ...
( Category: Political April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Stephanie Wrobel [Wrobel, Stephanie]

13 Patty I raise my knuckles to the familiar door and knock with more confidence than I feel. For weeks I’ve been trying to work up an excuse to pay ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers April 4,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Lisa Robertson

Slowly sipping a nourishing glass of beer on the terrace at le Narval on rue Saint-Jacques in late afternoon in the autumn of 1985 while reading the TLS: at this ...
( Category: Magical Realism April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Fiction River [River, Fiction]

*** After the machine ploughed the whole battlefield, it turned about and trundled over it again, smoothing everything down. The whole process took two days and a half, and then ...
( Category: Literary April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-31 | Author:Sarah Leipciger

* * * I don’t know precisely what time it was when we got to the town near our lake, but it was that golden part of the day when ...
( Category: Historical April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Lynch

* * * The known shape of the world, their voices, the boat. All unbecome in the flung dark-sound of the sea. They lie in the cooler clutched together. The ...
( Category: Sea Stories April 4,2020 )