Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

SOPHIE and Ian had bought corn at a roadside stand. It was for dinner. Plans had changed—they weren’t leaving till morning. And they had bought a bottle of gin and ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Haruki Murakami [Murakami, Haruki]

—translated by Jay Rubin GREETINGS, The winter cold diminishes with each passing day, and now the sunlight hints at the subtle scent of springtime. I trust that you are well. ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle [Boyle, T. Coraghessan]

After Gretchen had climbed into her car and the car had slid through the gate and vanished down the street, Nisha sprawled out on the grass and lifted her face ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

springs, mattress, headboard, in his confused dreams he wandered not knowing where he was, or how old; on foot in a childhood memory of Minnesota, or on idge oad above ...
( Category: Vampires September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Open Secrets started eating the crackers herself but she shouldn't have—a couple of bites and she wanted to puke. She took two more pills and went back upstairs. The windows ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Charles Baxter [Baxter, Charles]

THE HOUSE had an upstairs sleeping porch, and she first saw the young man from up there, limping through the alley and carrying a torn orange-and-yellow Chinese kite. He had ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-06-08 | Author:David Foster Wallace [Wallace, David Foster]

light recording to the relevant stage Four or ‘Paradoxical’ interval just prior to (one would presume, based on the Sleep specialist’s ‘prolegomenon’ or gloss [physiologically, I myself still remained ‘At ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-22 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Teenagers at the baseball game, sitting at the top of the bleachers out of the way of the boy’s friends. A couple of inches of bare wood between them, darkness ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

had labored at for me. I remember a red V-necked sweater often worn by her, and a pleated Royal Stewart skirt. Maybe Gloria and Susannah thought of her as the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

This is stupidity, this is melodrama, this is guilt. This will not have happened. But such things do happen. Some people founder, they are not helped in time. They are ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [The Corn Maiden]

Wild! On Friday 7 P.M. news came BULLETIN-BREAKING NEWS SKATSKILL SUSPECT IN CUSTODY. It was Mr. Zallman! We shrieked with laughter. Had to press our hands over our mouths so ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Amy Bloom [Bloom, Amy]

NIGHT VISION For fifteen years, I saw my stepmother only in my dreams. After my father got sick in the spring of my sophomore year, dying fast and ugly in ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Kim Edwards [Edwards, Kim]

Aristotle’s Lantern 129 “I know how you feel,” I said, trying to stay calm. “You can’t possibly,” he snapped, and something in me broke loose. “You’re right,” I said, preparing ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Russell Banks [Banks, Russell]

Comfort Leon LaRoche, the bank teller, tried to tell this story once to his friend and neighbor, Captain Dewey Knox (U.S. Army, ret.). Leon was in his late twenties when ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Lynne Tillman [Tillman, Lynne]

Lunacies The first astronaut to reach the Moon proclaimed: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong, his head entombed in a white bubble, his eyes ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )