azw3 |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Douglas Martin

19 Field Trip THEY ALL LIVED TOGETHER, a bunch of men, there at the fire department we leave school to go visit. They had to, I’m telling you, even sleep ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-02 | Author:Victor Lodato

26 Say Nothing She has a dinner party to return to, but she’s paralyzed in the hallway of her father’s house. She’s standing at the bottom of the stairs, where ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-23 | Author:Mona Black [Black, Mona]

22 ZAYNE My head has been all over the place—not just this week, but for the past year and a half. Okay, let’s be honest here: ever since Ronin walked ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cormac James

PIERRE’S ROOM WAS STILL EMPTY when Lil got back to the ICU. The nurse’s station, too, was unmanned. She stood in the corridor listening for some sign of life in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Victor Heringer

41 The egg room had a weird smell now. Since Mama had moved in there, she only left to go to the bathroom or have a shower. She’d polish her ...

epub |eng | | Author:Temim Fruchter

Eleven At this point in the telling, it bears explaining that laughter is a cosmically moderate element, wispy as lace. But when enough of it amasses, it becomes substantial. Palpable, ...

epub |eng | 2023-01-03 | Author:Crewe, Tom

XVIII TRAVELING TO HOLBORN VIADUCT was like journeying to the center of the earth. The train from Brixton seemed to move under rather than over ground: the fog pressed round ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-10 | Author:Romeo Preminger [Preminger, Romeo]

I WAS DISTURBED on a number of accounts that morning. The way Virginia talked to Chase and Dinah was a big one, and maybe I shouldn’t have expected anything better, ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Stephen McCauley

15 A couple of hours later I felt an intense craving for a drink. A chill had entered the room, making it feel more like a cold-storage closet than ever. ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-15 | Author:David Nikki Crouse

Make Me Whole I wasn’t sure what I was seeing. A small crowd formed around what I first thought was a young child, someone about my age, but it was ...

epub |eng | 2023-11-09 | Author:Bolton, Sharon [Bolton, Sharon]

53 At the end of the single-track road, Garry jumped down to open the huge metal gates. Lexy, who’d probably expected to be taken to his house to eat lunch, ...

epub |eng | 2023-02-15 | Author:Anna Britton

Call connected at 14:32. ‘Hello?’ ‘Hi, Keith. It’s me.’ ‘Hello, Juliet.’ ‘How are the girls?’ ‘You know how they are. Oh, wait, no, you don’t, because you’re never the one ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-28 | Author:James Earl Hardy [Hardy, James Earl]

Dear Destiny, Thanks for the hot chocolate. It was just what I needed on this cold, windy night. And the cookies were so jood! “Did he really write jood?” “Yes. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karen Lynne Klink

Chapter Thirty-Six Bernadette “This is monstrous, Papa, utterly monstrous!” I had stood on the back porch watching my papa turning terribly red, his fists trembling at his sides, and had ...

epub |eng | 2023-07-27 | Author:Kestrel, Sam

CHAPTER ELEVEN AVERY Tears ran down Avery’s cheeks as she walked away from Jo’s house. What the hell just happened? Perhaps she’d never know. By the time she’d pulled away ...