Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Karen

on the lake It was spring when his grandmother died, the funeral nearly an hour’s drive in the light rain, with trees budding bright against their wet black limbs all ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Tina May Hall [Hall, Tina May]

A body, a break, a sharp blow. Can you see me? Can you feel my breath? My tortured heat? But we cannot end here. We have sought to reveal more. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1934-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

“Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you heard That silence where the birds are dead yet something pipeth like a bird?” Nine THE HOUSE AT SHIRAZ ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Karin Slaughter [Slaughter, Karin]

Lena was in that dark room again, lying on her stomach. Slow, sensual kisses were making their way along her back down toward the space where her tailbone started. She ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-17 | Author:Slaughter, Karin [Slaughter, Karin]

NINE Jeffrey stood in the hallway outside the interrogation room, waiting for Frank. He had been in the observation area, watching Lena through the one-way glass, but the way she ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Anne McCaffrey [Dragons, The Girl Who Heard]

"To think I'm being dictated to by a thermometer's variations," he'd growl. We were lucky, too, in that there were no questions in the minds of the hospital administration. Cecily ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lisa Gardner [Gardner, Lisa]

Think. Consider. Weigh risk versus rewards. Then, make arrangements for disposing or exposing the body. This is step five. Chapter 5 Filming was delayed an hour. The fake tombstone had ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 1999-04-20 | Author:Mercedes Lackey [Lackey, Mercedes ]

This is the very first attempted professional appearance of Diana Tregarde, my occult detective. I've always enjoyed occult detectives, but there is a major problem with them—what are they supposed ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

A TIDEWATER MORNING During the late summer of 1938, there was black news of the onrushing war. I had just turned thirteen, and I had a newspaper route that carried ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Harold Brodkey [Brodkey, Harold]

SOMETIMES HE will throw a tantrum then: he will stamp his foot, and shout—so that the furniture slides a little bit—that it is the school’s fault or Momma’s, “NONIE IS ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ian McEwan [McEwan, Ian]

She was awake when I returned. I had my chauffeur carry the parcels into the dining room and then I dismissed him. I myself carried the parcels from the dining ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

ALKMENE MY FATHER’S ESTATE lay in a lonely part of Jutland, and I was his only child. When my mother died he did not care to send me away to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-10-29 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]

SO IT WAS THAT THE TRUTH OF CHRIST CAME TO THE PORCELAIN CITY Ammadon on the world of Arion, where the Order of Saint Judas Iscariot kept its House. Arion ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2013-07-21 | Author:Worlds That Weren't

“I was never so glad to hear good old-fashioned Imperial volley-fire…ai!” The last was a brief involuntary exclamation as Ranjit’s thick-fingered right hand pulled the arrow-stub free with one long ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )