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by YZ Chin

A deaf girl tells her boyfriend that she can lip read his tone.

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 206 Comments

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The Vandals are Coming!

by Alison Cooper

Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker next door were targeted the following weekend...

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 6 Comments

Autumn Starlings

by Andrea Smith

He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Three Desert Stories 2

by Daniel Riesco

The target, the target. I had little to go on.

- Length: 16 pages

- Age Rating: 15

The Case of Lady Sannox

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.

- Length: 12 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 18 Comments

Cusp

by Christopher Whitby

Ideas. That was what it was all about and all it was about

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Licence

by Bashir Sakhawarz

Your thoughts trek to all the points of the compass, but still that twist eludes you

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 1 Comments

Leaving Bill

by Gaynor Hill

Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 12 Comments

Three Desert Stories 3

by Daniel Riesco

She looked at me with wonderful blue eyes.

- Length: 1 page

- Age Rating: PG

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The Lady Or The Tiger?

by Frank Stockton

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.

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 1172 Comments

Leaving Bill

by Gaynor Hill

Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 12 Comments

Red, Yellow and Purple

by Andrea Smith

But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy