Literary
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

The Great Switcheroo First published in Playboy (April 1974) There were about forty people at Jerry and Samantha’s cocktail party that evening. It was the usual crowd, the usual discomfort, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 26,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-16 | Author:Leanna Englert [Englert, Leanna]

Ten days after Marie’s birthday, Louise picked up her mail at the Inn’s desk, and on top of the stack was an envelope addressed in a childish hand. The shape ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Vonnegut, Kurt [Vonnegut, Kurt]

* * * Fred was often asked, of course, whether he was related to the famous Senator Rosewater. Fred’s self-effacing, ignorant reply was along the lines of, “Somewhere, somehow, I ...
( Category: Humor August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-17 | Author:Diane McKinney-Whetstone

20 THE CRATE CONTAINING Bram lay patiently on the pier, having attracted the wedding guests’ belongings after someone deposited his burlap sack beside the crate, then another his cardboard box, ...
( Category: United States August 26,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Bodensteiner, Carol [Bodensteiner, Carol]

Liddie looked at herself in the mirror the next morning. A woman who was soon to be married and traveling to Europe should appear . . . older . . ...
( Category: Literary August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:James Hannaham

ELEVEN June 12, 1993 arrived—the day I thought God would start making me straight. Miquel considered this date our anniversary, because he counted from the night we met. The anniversary ...
( Category: Literary August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Kelsey Moore

CHAPTER 20 I knew something was wrong when I arrived home from work and found James standing beside his car in the garage. Even when I worked full-time, instead of ...
( Category: United States August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Claire McMillan

• 16 • The After-Party Ellie stood in the middle of the swirling party talking to what had to be the two most boring men in town and wondered, as ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Kathleen Anne Kenney

CHAPTER 11 Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-21 | Author:Sharmishtha Shenoy [Shenoy, Sharmishtha]

Epilogue Vikram’s agency was running very successfully. He had to rent an office premise and appoint a receptionist and an assistant to help him with his day-to-day business. Life was ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Luiza Sauma

Helping Luana with the laundry, then listening to music, became a regular occurrence. She didn’t need my help—in fact, I slowed her down—but she didn’t refuse it either. It could ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-10 | Author:Rachel Linden

“Ellen, I’m going for a run,” Maggie called out, lacing up her tennis shoes. The morning had been gray and overcast, threatening rain, but after lunch it had cleared suddenly. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:Arnost Lustig [Lustig, Arnošt]

“Are you afraid of me?” the Obersturmführer asked. “Perhaps.” “Would you kindly decide on yes or no?” She did not know which way to move. The Obersturmführer pinned her legs ...
( Category: Literary August 26,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:John Crowley

In her choice, in the suddenness of it, what could almost be described as the insouciance of it if it had not been experienced as so urgent, Pat Poynton was ...
( Category: Literary August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:J.A. Redmerski

Camryn I feel sick. God, I’ve never, ever, had a hangover like this before. The early morning sun and the breeze coming off the ocean wake me up. At first ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )