epub |eng | | Author:Michael Vecchione [Vecchione, Michael]

Chapter Thirty-Two As she sat burrowing through a pile of sexual assault reports, Dina Mitchell was being harassed by the precinct cops. They gave her no peace as she sat ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-30 | Author:S.J. Ransom [Ransom, S.J.]

I hated lying to Drew. I'm not home. Not yet, at least. It felt like vengeance and retribution when I killed those bastards tonight, but guilt is eating at me ...

epub |eng | 2021-06-09 | Author:Flora Nwapa

Chapter 10 “Choo-shi, choo-shi, choo-shi. What kind of goats are these? See, they are behaving like human beings. Cho-oshi, cho-oshi. Our ancestors protect us.” She threw the knife she was ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-12 | Author:Lyle Howard [Howard, Lyle]

28 Matt Walker sat in the kitchen and stared across the breakfast table at his grandfather. The early morning sun streamed in through the window as the smell of freshly ...

epub |eng | | Author:E. I. Landa

CHAPTER 29 Amazonas – Peru, August 30th 2007 Ian Clark, a young Englishman, passed by another exemplary mochilero in Peru. He was one of the penny-pinching backpackers abounding in South ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Alan Baxter

* * * I’m sitting in a bar in Ottawa, slowly drinking a cold beer, when I next hear Carly Sykes’s name. It’s been eighteen months since I left Vernon’s ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-21 | Author:Lou Paduano [Paduano, Lou]

Chapter Twenty-Six “Enter and be welcome.” The black raven spoke with a thunderous voice. It continued to nibble on the golden apple fragment offered to him by Soriya Greystone. The ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:John F. D. Taff [Taff, John F. D.]

— 26 — Awake in the Hospital. Mark and Monday Picnic. Enter Tim Jacoby. Mark snapped awake as if a switch inside him had been flipped. He was in a ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-21 | Author:Sager, Riley [Sager, Riley]

Thanks to his boat, Boone beats me back to our side of the lake. Even though I’d stopped running as soon as I passed Eli’s house, I’m still out of ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:David L. Golemon [Golemon, David L.]

Chapter Seven One Hundred Sixty-Eight Miles East of the Altai Mountains To keep out of the sixty mile an hour slipstream headwind that slowed its progress, the United States Air ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-21 | Author:Riley Sager [Sager, Riley]

Thanks to his boat, Boone beats me back to our side of the lake. Even though I’d stopped running as soon as I passed Eli’s house, I’m still out of ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-25 | Author:T. James Kelly [Kelly, T. James]

17 Slow, high-pitched beeps came from somewhere. Am I in Em’s hospital room? My eyelids felt superglued shut. A dull, orange light flickered like fire somewhere beyond them. Beep. Fuzzy ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-22 | Author:Jeff Seats [Seats, Jeff]

««« ‡ »»» CON-WEST COMMANDER Samantha Cole had moved down from her glassed-in office that overlooked the beating heart of Control-West and was now standing in the control room next ...

epub |eng | 2020-11-10 | Author:P.D. Cacek [Cacek, P.D.]

epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:P. D. Cacek [Cacek, P. D.]

PART FIVE SEPTEMBER Chapter Twenty-Two Timmy “He’s dying, Miss Nora.” Nora nodded and turned to look at the man laughing at cartoons and eating ice cream from a big plastic ...