Short Stories
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1932-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Six MISS MARPLE TELLS A STORY I don’t think I’ve ever told you, my dears—you, Raymond, and you, Joan, about the rather curious little business that happened some years ago ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Michel Faber [Faber, Michel]

When Christine returned home, the sound of the baby’s screaming was leaking through the four walls of the house like a muted fire siren. She looked at her neighbours’ houses ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Gray, Amelia [Gray, Amelia]

The fountain is very close to my home and at my home’s heart is my medicine cabinet. Something feels very strange about the container of my body. As I was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf | | 2005-05-31 | Author:Maureen F. McHugh [McHugh, Maureen F.]

My mom and dad were still asleep when I got up. I was late for school the next day and missed first period General Math, which was no great loss. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

The Affair at the Bungalow 'I've thought of something,' said Jane Helier. Her beautiful face was lit up with the confident smile of a child expecting approbation. It was a ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Amina Gautier [Gautier, Amina]

They began to whisper things about my brother right before school let out that summer. It suddenly became a big deal that Julian had never had a girlfriend when Sasha, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ann Beattie [Beattie, Ann]

Starley H is full name was Dickie Ray Starley, but he was Starley to everyone but his wife. She called him Dickie, and told close friends that even though it ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Dan Chaon [Chaon, Dan]

And then she’d taken a step out into the street without looking. That is what the police said. Stepped out into the street without looking both ways. The practice tests ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Five GREENSHAW’S FOLLY The two men rounded the corner of the shrubbery. “Well, there you are,” said Raymond West. “That’s it.” Horace Bindler took a deep, appreciative breath. “But my ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

“Are you quite all right, sir?” Now that, old Dean-head, is a question. The music is surf and feathers in all its upbeats, strictly society on the down: scherzophrenic. A ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Stanislaw Lem [Lem, Stanislaw]

THE TWENTY-FIRST VOYAGE Upon my return from the 27th century I sent I. Tichy off to Rosenbeisser, to take over the post vacated by me at THEOHIPPIP, which he did, ...
( Category: Time Travel March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

The next afternoon I drove out to Fontan’s, through the shade of the town, then along the dusty road, turning up the side road and leaving the car beside the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1976-03-26 | Author:Saki

THE SEVENTH PULLET “IT’s not the daily grind that I complain of,” said Blenkinthrope resentfully; “it’s the dull grey sameness of my life outside of office hours. Nothing of interest ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Kij Johnson [Johnson, Kij]

Morning light gleamed through the cabin’s window when Richard heard the sound of her feet outside. The door flew open in the wind, flakes whirling to settle everywhere. Addie was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-19 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)]

She rushed to the 'phone. Doctor Martin across the street was out. Doctor Foulke, their family physician, didn't answer. She racked her brains and in desperation called her throat specialist, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )