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Maupassant's short masterpiece following the journey of a group of civilians during the Franco-Prussian war.
A group of bored Prussian soldiers amuse themselves destructively while holed up in a French chateau.
An avaricious farmer makes arangements to have his dying mother looked after so he can get his crop in.
While travelling in Normandy a young artist meets a singularly unfriendly older woman.
A young man's suspicions are aroused when he finds out his dead mother is appearing to his father, threatening eternal damnation unless the son is disinherited.
On two couples' trip to the seaside a long-held wish is finally fulfilled.
A man describes the most frightening night of his life.
A magistrate is visited by a doctor who hides a dark secret behind his penetrating pale blue eyes.
Suzanne stays at the bedside of her dying sister, who she has lived with her whole life.
The five girls and the refined, virtuous Madame of a Normandy brothel shut up shop in order to attend a confirmation.
A man picks up a piece of string, an act which unfortunately coincides with the loss of a mayor's pocket book.
A poor woman borrows a necklace from a rich friend. Classic twisty tale.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
A poor family set their hopes on the return of a previously good-for-nothing uncle who left for America to seek his fortune.
Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity.
A poor woman borrows a necklace from a rich friend. Classic twisty tale.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
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.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
"It's at the ranch, on the other side of the farm, in those mountains. All we need to do is catch it. Can you imagine how much we can sell it for?
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
