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Turnback Ridge by Gerri Brightwell
epub |eng | | Author:Gerri Brightwell

11 According to the map, up the road from where the plane had flown over them there was a trail to an old mining camp, and all that would lie ...
( Category: Literary December 16,2022 )
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku
epub |eng | | Author:Damilare Kuku

You were twenty-eight the last time he made you cry. You remember the day. That afternoon, Vera stopped by to see you at the Jakande branch of your supermarket. You’d ...
( Category: Literary December 16,2022 )
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb Jane Kuntz
epub | | 1987-12-15 | Author:Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jane Kuntz

Cunning storytellers make strategic use of passing the hat to suspend their stories: come now, what are you waiting for, open your purses, let it rain coins, manna, show your ...
( Category: Literary December 16,2022 )
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
epub |eng | | Author:Fumiko Enchi [Enchi, Fumiko]

Purple Ribbon The tradesmen and others who came to the house all said that the family Buddhist shrine was pitifully small for such a large establishment. It may have been ...
( Category: Literary December 15,2022 )
Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Nicholas Shakespeare [Nicholas Shakespeare]

3 She was unable to sleep. She had offered herself as Princess Tatiana and Clem had rejected her. She listened out, awaiting his return from the barn. The windmill squeaked, ...
( Category: Literary December 15,2022 )
Snow Island by Katherine Towler
epub |eng | 2002-12-15 | Author:Katherine Towler [Towler, Katherine]

— CHAPTER 15 — The heat lasted through July and into August. For three weeks, the island had no rain. “My tomatoes,” Mrs. Brovelli said one day when she came ...
( Category: Literary December 15,2022 )
The Poet's House by Jean Thompson
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Jean Thompson

Boone I turned from the man to Viridian and then back again. “We met already. Well not really. Hi.” I was doing my usual feeble job of handling social ceremonies. ...
( Category: Literary December 15,2022 )
All Is Burning by Jean Arasanayagam
epub |eng | 2013-04-13 | Author:Jean Arasanayagam [Arasanayagam, Jean]

The Return It was no use standing in this primeval garden and looking at birds, paddy fields, the river, the mountains, the massed foliage under which flashed the dark water. ...
( Category: Literary December 12,2022 )
Sweet and Vicious by David Schickler
epub |eng | 2004-08-31 | Author:David Schickler

CHAPTER 6 Monsters Just off the highway near Cactus Flat, South Dakota, Grace is running wind sprints on the shoulder. It’s our fifth morning together, sunny again and warmer than ...
( Category: Literary December 12,2022 )
Failure to Zigzag by Jane Vandenburgh
epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Jane Vandenburgh

11 Nice He looked Japanese but he wasn’t. He was Mexican, a bean-oh, as Lionel would say. He’d made a clicking noise in the back of his throat at her ...
( Category: Literary December 12,2022 )
The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake
epub |eng | 2021-05-03 | Author:Audrey Blake [Blake, Audrey]

Chapter 19 Daniel tried to keep his mind on volume two of Bourgery and Jacob’s Anatomy, but the wind outside shook the house as he had never felt before. Angry ...
( Category: Literary December 11,2022 )
The Black Poodle by F. Anstey
epub |eng | | Author:F. Anstey

* That night Ethelinda had the chest of drawers all to herself, and the old Sausage Glutton grinned savagely at her from the mantelpiece, for he was disappointed at the ...
( Category: Literary December 5,2022 )
A Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells
epub |eng | | Author:William Dean Howells

VIII * Young Camp carried out the plate of victuals to the tramp, and Mrs. Makely said to his mother: "I suppose you would make the tramp do some sort ...
( Category: Literary December 5,2022 )
The Christian by Hall Caine
epub |eng | | Author:Hall Caine

II * At eight o'clock that night John Storm was walking through the streets of Soho. The bell of a jam factory had just been rung, and a stream of ...
( Category: Literary December 5,2022 )
I'll Go On by Hwang Jungeun
epub |eng | 2018-09-30 | Author:Hwang Jungeun

– We walk home under the summer moon. It’s Nana’s second time returning home today, and already close to midnight. She’s weary but sleep eludes her. She feels let down ...
( Category: Literary December 5,2022 )

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