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A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
They heard the sirens in the distance and they watched the flames gasping into the night and he thought that this must be what the end of the world was going to look like.
A soldier risks his life to uncover the secret of twelve beautiful princesses.
Lady Bastable is - quite rightly - reluctant to look after young Clovis for a week.
In the mosh pit at a Tricky Woo gig, a confession concerning a young man's adventure with Lisa the Buzz Cut. Contains strong language.
A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.
Moving day for Danny and his father.
When Chuck Walaach enters the Elvis Look-Alike Competition, something has to give.
A woman's appetite for life has disappeared since leaving New York.
A wicked enchantress imprisons a beautiful girl in a tower.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Snow fell steadily in the wild woods of Siberia...
But when their father was killed, the dynamic of their relationship changed...
It being the last Thursday of the month, the greatest witch in Ireland had gone to the hairdressers and would not return for another hour
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
What would you do if your family preferred a robot over you?
I woke to the sound of something creaking on the porch...
The famous lexical semanticist Professor Edgar Nettleston had been found dead, a gunshot wound to the head.
Death came around once a month...
When the ugly girl decides to find herself a husband she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for.
