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- Maria C. McCarthy
- Jon Langford
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They danced and the cat-rat danced with them
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: U
The water is pink, the blood seeping into the crystals.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
I know it's risky attempting to steer a liminal conversation but that's me...
- Length: 1 page
- Age Rating: PG
His watch was a large, solid Breitling which he wore in defiance of all the advice he’d been given...
Once again, Joseph noticed the anger in his friend’s eyes.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 15
If you’re going to spend a lot of time with a woman before you put her behind bars, she might as well be a looker.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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
As I live and breathe, I’ll always love this cabin.
Bobby Osgood woke up one October morning and he was twelve years old again...
Jeannette treasured the moment when television sets died, computers shut down, and refrigerators stopped refrigerating...
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: U
"Right," said Julia, all of a sudden, "You're on your own now..."
They said I sat on the bottom like an astronaut floating in space...
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.
“Hello, sir. How may I help you?”
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...
