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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1961-01-02 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dr. Yamakawa had a shocked expression on his face when he finished reading the article. “What is this?” he asked. Major Kimura released a long, slow stream of cigar smoke ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )
Radio Belly by Buffy Cram
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Buffy Cram

Drift THE LAST TIME Lena’s mother calls, everything seems normal. Normalish. Normal enough. Lena is standing in the Shark Museum at the time, looking into the mouth of a huge ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Pulse by Julian Barnes
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Julian Barnes

Marriage Lines THE TWIN OTTER was only half-full as they took off from Glasgow: a few islanders returning from the mainland, plus some early-season weekenders with hiking boots and rucksacks. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Polaroids From the Dead by Douglas Coupland
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Douglas Coupland

I guess the thing about today is that I spent it alone—not with you. Are you the person I’m thinking of right now? Maybe you are. Where are you? Where ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Sebastian Faulks

PART IV – A DOOR INTO HEAVEN 1822 JEANNE WAS SAID to be the most ignorant person in the Limousin village where she had lived most of her life. The ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories by Bradbury Ray
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]

II The Incinerator was open. It never closed. There was a wide entrance, all lighted up with hidden illumination, there was a helicopter landing table and a beetle drive. The ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
A good fall by Ha Jin
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Ha Jin

To my relief, my boss gladly allowed me another afternoon off, saying his daughter had graduated from Barnard College, so he liked the idea that I would accompany my former ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
A Gift of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-29 | Author:Anne McCaffrey

Good-natured laughter and movement down the hall roused her. Someone had half opened the glowbasket, so she saw her own clothes, clean, dry, and neatly folded on the stool where ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

Three days of rain and the grounds of the Amherst Academy for Girls were sodden and treacherous underfoot as quicksand. Where there were paths across lawns and not paved walks ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-17 | Author:Neil Gaiman

—The pounding in the front of my head, the pressure in the back. All a roiling change a how-wow-row-now change a red wall coming toward me from the night —I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Peter S. Beagle (ed) by The Secret History of Fantasy
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:The Secret History of Fantasy

“It’s not the flavor,” Piggy said enthusiastically. “It’s the poison. Properly prepared, see, there’s a very small amount left in the sashimi and you get a threshold dose. Your lips ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-06-20 | Author:Agatha Christie

HAVE YOU GOT EVERYTHING YOU WANT? "Par ici, Madame." A tall woman in a mink coat followed her heavily encumbered porter along the platform of the Gare de Lyon. She ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
First Meetings in the Enderverse by Orson Scott Card
mobi, epub, pdf |por | 2006-02-23 | Author:Orson Scott Card

superstition that was beginning to play about the name, Dragon Army was retired. Until now. And now, Ender thought, smiling, Dragon Army was going to take them by surprise. The ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
The Inheritance and Other Stories by Robin Hobb; Megan Lindholm; Tom Kidd
mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Robin Hobb; Megan Lindholm; Tom Kidd

The Inheritance My parents both lived through the Great Depression and World War II. My father met my mother when he was stationed near Norwich with the Eighth Air Force. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield; Lorna Sage
mobi |eng | 2007-05-29 | Author:Katherine Mansfield; Lorna Sage

The Young Girl In her blue dress, with her cheeks lightly flushed, her blue, blue eyes, and her gold curls pinned up as though for the first time – pinned ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )

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