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Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Paul Bowles

Book Three * * * THE AGE OF MONSTERS XV In the night the wind veered and the weather changed, bringing a luminous sky and a bright moon. In his ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 3,2019 )
Talking to Strangers by Paul Auster
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Auster

IV … with the conviction that, in the end, translating is madness. —MAURICE BLANCHOT As I was about to embark on the project of editing this anthology, a friend gave ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
Moss Farm by Van Reid
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Van Reid [Reid, Van]

16 The Honor of Kings Eighty-three year old Martha Stivvard was hovering outside the Edgecomb City Baptist Church when the service was over and the pastor was greeting everyone at ...
( Category: Humorous August 3,2019 )
Hue and Cry by James Alan McPherson
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:James Alan McPherson

An Act of Prostitution WHEN HE SAW THE WOMAN, the lawyer put down his pencil and legal pad and took out his pipe. “Well,” he said. “How do you want ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
Daykeeper by Ran Walker
epub |eng | | Author:Ran Walker [Walker, Ran]

Slowly my mind begins to come back into focus, and I realize that I am still holding her against the wall. She begins to lower her feet onto the floor, ...
( Category: African American August 3,2019 )
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
epub |eng | 2017-12-31 | Author:Mesha Maren

THE ONE AND ONLY —THE GOLDEN LEE— Live at the Roanoke Coliseum on September 10. Buy your tickets NOW. Box office opens August 1 at 8 a.m. Lee’s face leered ...
( Category: Family Life August 3,2019 )
Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

I, DON JOSÉ DE ABOS AND PAPILLA. His Majesty’s Notary for the Royal Revenue, and Register of this Province, and Notary Public of the Holy Crusade of this Bishopric, etc. ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
The Crack-Up by F Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 1964-06-15 | Author:F Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F Scott]

M MOMENTS (WHAT PEOPLE DO) Dogs: We went through a routine, with a lot of false starts, charges, leg and throat holds, rolling over, and escapes. I only barked a ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
Emily, Gone by Bette Lee Crosby
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Bette Lee Crosby [Crosby, Bette Lee]

COMES THE FALL Hesterville, 1973 In late September, when apples were at their peak of flavor and the smell of fall was in the air, Mama Dixon suggested she and ...
( Category: Southern August 3,2019 )
Philip by Tito Perdue
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Tito Perdue [Perdue, Tito]

Eleven He has wended his way back home again and hath lain upon the couch. Would night never come? On the other hand, it was generally at night when C. ...
( Category: Urban Life August 3,2019 )
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
epub |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa [Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di]

IV LOVE AT DONNAFUGATA * * * NOVEMBER, 1860 AS MEETINGS DUE to the marriage contract became more frequent, Don Fabrizio found an odd admiration growing in him for Sedàra’s ...
( Category: Historical August 2,2019 )
A Contract Seduction (Southern Secrets Series Book 2) by Janice Maynard
epub |eng | 2019-05-01 | Author:Janice Maynard [Maynard, Janice]

* * * Jonathan spun around. All the blood in his body rushed to his groin in a painful arousal that left him unsteady on his feet. “Lizzy,” he muttered. ...
( Category: Family Saga August 2,2019 )
Blame It On Christmas (Southern Secrets Series Book 1) by Janice Maynard
epub |eng | 2018-12-01 | Author:Janice Maynard [Maynard, Janice]

Eleven Mazie leaned her back against J.B.’s front door for half a second, barely long enough to catch her breath, and then she fled. She jogged three blocks before she ...
( Category: Family Saga August 2,2019 )
The Dust and the Roar by Porter Cat
epub |eng | 2019-07-13 | Author:Porter, Cat

Chapter Thirty-Seven I jumped on my bike and hit the throttle, tearing out of the parking lot, through Clay Street, around the gas station. At top speed, I hit the ...
( Category: Native American August 2,2019 )
Claudine and Annie by Colette
epub |eng | 1994-04-10 | Author:Colette [Colette]

SIX BAYREUTH. Rain. Rain . . . The sky melts into rain, and the sky here is coal-dust. If I lean on the window-sill, my hands and elbows are smeared ...
( Category: Classics August 2,2019 )

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