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A historian is given the chance to run very realistic simulations of the past.
A man waits for his wife to disembark the ship she has returned on after ten months in Europe.
At the marriage of a handsome prince to a beautiful princess, a spectacular firework display is planned. This is the story of those fireworks - and one very important rocket in particular.
The Stossens encounter more problems than expected when they try and crash a garden party through an apparently empty paddock.
A visit on an old school friend finds a man plagued both by bad health and a gentle tapping from beyond his wall.....
The Duchess of Dulverton sends an errant nephew to search for underwater gold.
Alethia Debchance, raised on a strict diet of romance novels, leaves home for the first time to visit her distant cousin Robert, an aspiring politician.
A woman's appetite for life has disappeared since leaving New York.
The story of a man's manipulative relationship with two women.
Then one year she started falling ...
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.
Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
