Jenny Joseph Shawls from Extended Smiles 1987 We walked in the garden as day lifted the sky and here and there on the dark hedges by...

Rosamund Lehmann When the Waters Came Very long ago, during the first winter of the present war, it was still possible to preserve enough...

Rosamunde Pilcher The Blue Bedroom As the sun slipped down out of the sky and long shadows grew and stretched out over the sandy dunes,...

The Dead Fish by BORIS VIAN The carriage door stuck as usual; at the other end of the train, the big hat chief leaned hard on the red...

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Michael Marshall Smith Everybody Goes Michael Marshall smith’s debut novel, Only Forward, won the British Fantasy Society’s August...

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Lisa Tuttle Replacements Lisa Tuttle (1952-...) is an American writer of fantastical fiction who lives in Scotland. An early member of...

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Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or...

Amanda Winn Lee Something Special A professional killer goes to a wildlife reserve to retrieve a hidden code. Serge considered himself an...

When Captain Ireneus Morris and Dr. Charles Albert Servain disappeared from Buenos Aires one 20th of December, the newspapers made only a...

Candia McWilliam Change of Use 1996 In the pantry at the back of the long house, Mary shifted back a little on the edge of the stone...

David Shrayer-Petrov Dinner with Stalin (2008) Translated from the Russian by Aleksandra Fleszar and Arna Bronstein. I once read this...

Marita Mitsora Brown Dog in November Translated by Jacob Moe from the Greek. I could always tell where the dark side lies, even as a fair...

Marita Mitsora The End of the Show Translated by Jacob Moe from the Greek. Late at night I sit in the courtyard observing one of nature's...

Evgeny Chirikov Faust Translated by Lizzie B. Gorin . When Ivan Mikhailovich awoke one morning, the whole household was already long up,...

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Kenneth Grahame The Olympians and the White-Washed Uncle "'IT IS OPPORTUNE TO LOOK BACK UPON OLD TIMES, AND CONTEMPLATE OUR FOREFATHERS....

Thomas Mann Little Herr Friedemann (1897) Der kleine Herr Friedemann It was the nurse's fault. When they first suspected, Frau Consul...