He was four thousand dollars short, and the cops had it figured out. They said he’d wrapped the bills and shoved them across the counter to the...
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CAITLIN TAYLOR
Having inherited nothing but a stack of bills and – horrors – an office job, Caitlin was suddenly a poor little rich girl. Worse, her new boss was temptingly gorgeous, but needed a major attitude adjustment… He seemed to think...
Why Call Them Back from...
Immortality - The ultimate reward: To come back to life - and never die again - that's what Forever Center promises the human race. And that's why, in the year 2148, people spend their whole lives in poverty, giving all their money to Forever Center...
There’s such a thing as too much...
It is the early 21st century, and Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, in which humanity's billions will lie...
A stimulating read, a real page turner. Perfect for those nights when your girlfriend just left you for a sushi chef and stomped a hole in your heart with a spiked high heel...
In Amanda Michalopoulou's Why I Killed My Best Friend, a young girl named Maria is lifted from her beloved Africa and relocated to her native Greece. She struggles with the transition, hating everything about Athens: the food, the air, the...
"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" is copyright 1987 by Lawrence Watt Evans, and first appeared in ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, July 1987. In 1988, this story won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story; also, it was nominated...
One of the greatest raconteurs of the 20th century, Saadat Hasan Manto declares that he was forced to write when his wife routinely demanded that he put bread on the table for the family. He doesn’t attribute any genius to his skills as a writer...