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A book lover lends one of his prized possessions to a mysterious girl.
The narrator captures a rare rabbit-like creature, thought to be extinct for over a century.
Rivalry erupts amongst the inhabitants of an apartment building.
A man investigates an increasingly common phenomenon involving carnivorous lambs with a highly developed sense of justice.
Not your everyday problem.
A fearsome mosquito traps a man in his apartment.
An alternative to the traditional methods.
A renegade experimental psycologist explains how to inflict his methods on the general public.
While dusting off his extensive library, the narrator discovers a diminutive man on one of the lower shelves.
When his key breaks off on the inside of his apartment, the narrator must fight bureaucracy and apathy in increasingly desperate attempts to escape.
A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow.
In the southeast region of the plains of Buenos Aires, you might come across the Cubelli Lagoon, known as the "Lake of the Dancing Alligator."
After watching a debate on the perils of a consumerist society, a man turns off his television and heads to a bicycle shop.
A tutor is given an artichoke plant and soon learns that taking care of it is not going to be easy.
A man meets his girlfriend's parents.
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?
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.
Berry liked movies. Correction, he loved them.
