Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER I. One night, during the period of the first French Revolution, the family of Francois Sarzeau, a fisherman of Brittany, were all waking and watching at a late hour ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER VIII. THE CONFESSION. MY replies to the lawyer accurately expressed the conviction in my mind. The narrative related by Ambrose had all the appearance, in my eyes, of a ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Franz Kafka; Jason Baker; Donna Freed

In the Penal Colonyi “IT’S AN EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS,” the officer said to the world traveler and, with a certain admiration, surveyed the apparatus that was, after all, quite familiar to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Henry, Christina [Henry, Christina]

13 “MADELINE. MADELINE.” Someone was calling me. I floated in water and darkness, and I was tired, and I wanted to sleep, and someone kept calling me, telling me to ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-10-09 | Author:Haruki Murakami

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. Now I regret, a little, that I didn’t tell the girl anything. Perhaps I should ...
( Category: Surrealism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-07-06 | Author:David Sedaris

AFTER MALISON 7:45. I ARRIVE at Malison’s hotel an hour and fifteen minutes before his lecture is due to begin at the Pavilion of Thought. The desk clerk shoots me ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Tessa Bailey [Bailey, Tessa]

Chapter Nine Sitting in the dark stairwell of Ruby’s building, Troy tried to fight his mounting panic. He’d received a call from the surveillance officer at eight o’clock telling him ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-02-02 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston [Hurston, Zora Neale]

10 One day Hezekiah asked off from work to go off with the ball team. Janie told him not to hurry back. She could close up the store herself this ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Langston Hughes [Hughes, Langston]

Stars O, sweep of stars over Harlem streets, O, little breath of oblivion that is night. A city building To a mother’s song. A city dreaming To a lullaby. Reach ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Meisha Camm [Camm, Meisha]

Chapter 15 Money Diva’s Lounge, December 1997 GG and I got dressed in her house in Bayside. We jumped in her Jeep, headed to carry out our planned hit on ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Paolo Bacigalupi [Bacigalupi, Paolo]

Lolo's homestead runs across a couple acres of semi-alkaline soil, conveniently close to the river's edge. Annie is out in the field when he crests the low hills that overlook ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Lou Anders [Anders, Lou]

Our waitress wore a transparent plastic carapace molded to her naked breasts and torso, black lurex panties, tights and musketeer boots. Her hair was pouffed up and her makeup could’ve ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Blindman's Bluff [Bluff, Blindman's]

TWENTY-ONE THE LAST KNOWN address of Alejandro Brand was in Pacoima, part of Decker’s old hunting ground in Foothill. The place was a burb of about a hundred thousand people. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub |zho | 2010-01-02 | Author:Hanif Kureishi [Kureishi, Hanif]

The Umbrella The minute they arrived at the adventure playground, Roger’s two sons charged up a long ramp and were soon clinging to the steel netting that hung from a ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-18 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

6 Afterword “No Smoking” appeared in the December 1974 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine under the title of “Confessions of an American Cigarette Smoker.” I'm growing ever more fanatical ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )