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An Unfinished Story
by O. Henry
The narrator's entrance into the afterlife is used to frame a story highlighting the pitiful conditions of one girl's working life.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Vusi Makusi
by Ursula Wills-Jones
Vusi Makusi, terminal optimist, is sent off to the jungle as the new government officer
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Broken Globe
by Geoffrey Smagacz
Maybe if a person poked around the alcohol soup he’d deposited, they could find his heart or his brains.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 18
The Gnome
by Marcus Bleecker
Howling dogs, Hobbits, and bowl cut hair. What the heck is going on in the apartment downstairs?
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:3 stars
The Discovery of the High Lama
by Sushma Joshi
People aren't always what they seem.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Rating:5 stars
Tantric Sex for the Determinedly Single
by Sarah Salway
Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:4 stars
Appearance
by Kate Peterson
"I watched as the man I saw so clearly disappeared into the endless white."
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
The Plot
by Luke Thompson
'I don’t mind saying I’m afraid of the dark a little.'
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:3 stars
Simon at the Shore Line
by Jonas Hurwitz
Are halter-tops and half price Bermudas part of the grand design?
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Rating:5 stars
A Question of Age
by Fernando Sorrentino
Memories of a house and a Grandma.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Rating:3 stars
Gradation
by Geoff Peck
A glimpse of the meth epidemic in Oklahoma.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Rating:5 stars
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The Backward Fall
by Jason Helmandollar
How do you catch someone who is falling into their own mind?
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
The Wicker Husband
by Ursula Wills-Jones
When the ugly girl decides to find herself a husband she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
Occupation
by Charlie Taylor
Jimmy's life changes for ever when the soldiers come to the door.
- Length: 26 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
The Card
by James Ross
'The only thing I ever got off my old man was a birthday card when I was ten.'
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
End of the Line
by Alison L. Randall
There's a new gadget in town and Liza has to try it. But will the price be too high?
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Rating:5 stars
Do You Speak English?
by Simon Collings
A tourist couple stray from the beaten track and find themselves out of their depth.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
Tone
by YZ Chin
A deaf girl tells her boyfriend that she can lip read his tone.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
The Star
by Esther Claes
Not even fame can protect you when the world goes wrong.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:4 stars
The Orbital Road
by AC Tillyer
The new road was meant to relieve congestion, but then, determined and obsessive, the Spinners arrived ...
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
86th Street and the Summer of Love
by Colin C. Conway
Gang violence against the backdrop of a distant war
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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