Literary
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Patrick Süskind [Patrick Süskind]

28 And so it went, day in day out, week in week out, month in month out. So it went for seven long years. Meanwhile war raged in the world ...
( Category: Historical Mystery October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Harlan Ellison [Ellison, Harlan]

When they dug the body out of the alley, it made even the hardened construction workers and emergency squad cops ill. Not one bone was left unbroken. The very flesh ...
( Category: Short Stories October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:J. K. Rowling [Rowling, J. K.]

— CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — The Unexpected Task ‘Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?’ Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-19 | Author:Peake, Mervyn [Mervyn, Peake]

THIRTY-EIGHT Steerpike's return to the castle's heart was rapid and purposeful. A pale sun like a ball of pollen was hung aloft an empty and faded sky, and as he ...
( Category: Epic October 31,2014 )
epub | | 1998-04-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

"Everything feel good," said Ben. "Don't you feel good?" "Sure, sure I feel good," said Eli emptily. "Should feel good—going to that wonderful school," said Ben. The wonderful school was ...
( Category: Short Stories October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:William Gibson

58. WU The Fitz-David Wu rental, the one with the grease-smeared cheek and the creased boiler suit, was approaching his table, a drink in its hand. It seemed to see ...
( Category: Technothrillers October 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:William S. Burroughs

Graywood meets them at the station and they take a carriage to the Bunker, a former bank building at Spring and Bowery.… The walls are massive, the door of thick ...
( Category: Westerns October 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:William S. Burroughs

GLOSSARY “Jive talk” is used more in connection with marijuana than with junk. In the past few years, however, the use of junk has spread into “hip,” or “jive talking” ...
( Category: United States October 31,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Joey Comeau

Dear Hallmark, Mother’s Day is fine, I guess. Except some people have lost their mothers. And some people have lost their fathers. Not everyone has family. You want a holiday ...
( Category: Humorous October 31,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

HE What might that larger reason be? SHE Escaping pain. HE What pain? SHE The pain of being present. HE Aren't you describing yourself? SHE Perhaps. The pain of being ...
( Category: Literary October 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Eudora Welty [Welty, Eudora]

As they sang, the tree over them, Billy Vaughn’s Switch, with its ever-spinning leaves all light-points at this hour, looked bright as a river, and the tables might have been ...
( Category: Literary October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Frank Mosher

Now that the misunderstanding of Claire’s nocturnal visit to my brother’s trailer had been cleared up, Charlie and Athena Allen were on good terms again. They were even talking about ...
( Category: Literary October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

A Distant Episode THE September sunsets were at their reddest the week the Professor decided to visit Ai'n Tadouirt, which is in the warm country. He came down out of ...
( Category: United States October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Gardam

May 14th Two weeks, m.d.J., since that evening. I have spent much of them at the window. Nearly June. What a summer coming this year. The lilacs and the syringas ...
( Category: Literary October 31,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Edgar Cantero [Cantero, Edgar]

A.: [Curious.] Did you feel that? TELEGRAM * * * From: Niamh Connell Point Bless, Ponopah, VA NEED HELP NOW STOP LAST NIGHT WAS HORRIBLE STOP I AM LOSING HIM ...
( Category: Ghosts October 31,2014 )