Anthologies & Short Stories
epub |eng | 2018-10-19 | Author:Howey, Hugh [Howey, Hugh]

PENNY RECOGNIZED THE building as soon as she arrived. She squinted through the acid rain shield over her head at the brick building, recently refinished with new solar paint. This ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-06-15 | Author:Skyler Ramirez [Ramirez, Skyler]

Chapter 13 – Abandon Ship For the next two days, we stay right where we are, in orbit around Guadalajara. It allows us to lick our wounds—faking Farragut’s drive sputter ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Lucca DeJardins [DeJardins, Lucca]

Claude dispatched two more Automatons guards, and then shot off the locks to the church’s doorway. I smashed the door open with my lover, and was greeted by a sight ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:David Hallquist [Hallquist, David]

The images vanished. Cincinnatus staggered, struck his heel on a rock, managed to correct for the misstep before he tumbled to the ground yet again. It was only after he ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Hobb, Robin & Lindholm, Megan [Hobb, Robin & Lindholm, Megan]

The Inheritance My parents both lived through the Great Depression and World War II. My father met my mother when he was stationed near Norwich with the Eighth Air Force. ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Silverberg, Robert [Silverberg, Robert]

The new dinkos were being herded into the fumigation chamber now. They were annoyed about that—they always were—but the guards kept them moving right along through the puffy bursts of ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Silverberg, Robert [Silverberg, Robert]

Chapter Five They circled tentatively around each other, the big man and the small one. La Floquet seemed to have reached a murderous pitch of intensity; muscles quivered in his ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-01 | Author:Snyder, Maria V. [Snyder, Maria V.]

Halloween festivities started at midnight. Most citizens gave up sleep for this once a year chance to be outside without a mask and robe. Enzo collected me and we walked ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Silverberg, Robert [Silverberg, Robert]

She asked him to stay with her at her house that night, and he refused. He could see that the refusal hurt her deeply; but there was much that he ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-01 | Author:Silverberg, Robert [Silverberg, Robert]

“They aren’t people. They’re trees. Sick trees that are going to die soon anyway. I want to save the others.” “But why kill them? There’s got to be some kind ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Simak, Clifford D. [Simak, Clifford D.]

Mutiny on Mercury As far as I can tell from the author’s journals, Clifford Simak wrote this story in 1930, making it perhaps his very first. But since it was ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Silverberg, Robert [Silverberg, Robert]

After breakfast the boy went over to him in the dining hall and said, “You meet the woman who come in during the night?” Demeris nodded. “She’s offering me a ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Simak, Clifford D. [Simak, Clifford D.]

Neighbor If one were forced to choose a single particular story that would most represent Clifford D. Simak’s best-known literary image, this would be that story: a story of the ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Card, Orson Scott [Card, Orson Scott]

Because the queen was a widow, because despite the problems of the past the kingdom was large and rich, many suitors came asking for her hand. Some were dukes, some ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 1990-10-01 | Author:Card, Orson Scott [Card, Orson Scott]

It was a feeling of power, to know that I had called someone back from places far darker than death. Her life was painful, and yet my promise of devotion ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories September 13,2024 )