Literary
epub |eng | 1976-12-26 | Author:Richard Ford

6 He drove back after midnight, parked the truck, and took the boat across. A long grainy strand of mist hung above the water and the boat slid smoothly into ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen Gregory

Chapter Twenty-Four ‘WHAT’S UP, ROSIE? Let me look at you? Maybe you should stay at home today. I’ll ring Colonel Brook and tell him.’ She looked different. Yes, we’d drunk ...
( Category: Gothic December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Kazuaki Takano

4. Rubens was seated on his sofa at home, bathed in the light from a nearby lamp. It was 2:00 a.m. East Coast time; 8:00 a.m. in the Congo. He’d ...
( Category: War December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Robert Bausch

The weather got a bit closer to thawing out for a while as Christmas approached, but then it froze up again good and solid. Sometimes the wind cut through you ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

The View from Castle Rock THE FIRST TIME Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old. With his father and some other men he climbed a slippery black ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Almudena Grandes [Grandes, Almudena]

Ignacio was in the basement of a barracks, in a makeshift cell, and he was reasonably happy, for everything had gone according to plan. He had made his way back ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Thomas McGuane

Aliens Homer Newland, a partner and franchise specialist at a Boston law firm, had had a distinguished career and a very long one before retiring at seventy-five, when he was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

It was so easy I could not stop. I hustled at a dead run until the streets were empty and the bars closed. New to the enterprise, I had the ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Kent, Steven L. [Kent, Steven L.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE I had placed a few prisoners on incapacitation cages during my career, and now I regretted it. This wasn’t just storage, it was torture. I knew the electricity ...
( Category: Space Marine December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Victor Serge [Serge, Victor]

6 “A crazy plank, escorted by black sea-horses …” The line is from Rimbaud’s “Bateau ivre” (Drunken Boat) from which Serge also took his chapter heading. (Tr.) FOURTEEN Arrival WE ...
( Category: Political December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-12 | Author:Anton Chekhov

V ‘I haven’t died,’ Olga thought when she became aware of her surroundings again and the pains had gone. A bright summer’s day looked in through the two wide-open bedroom ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Karen Joy Fowler

(2) Rima read her fortune again and more carefully. This second time through, she was struck by the images of sand and water, by the part about the little actions ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. Bruce Cameron

17 You and Me, Kermit The Black Bear was like an easy chair in my mind: worn, comfortable, familiar. When I opened the door the shock made me blink. Becky ...
( Category: Humorous December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Keri Arthur [Arthur, Keri]

Chapter 8 Like most of these renovated terraces, the rear part of the house had become one big, open kitchen that also had plenty of room for a dining area. ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Michela Murgia [Murgia, Michela]

The war that would later be known as the Great War had already earned its name, summoning from Soreni no less than three levies of men to the trenches of ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 27,2014 )