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When the Circus Came to Town

by Mark Hooper

I wondered if there was a used-teeth store I could recommend to get these guys geared up and ready for caramel apple season?

- Length: 9 pages

- Age Rating: U

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The Tell Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe

So you think he's mad? Nervous? True! - but you should see how wisely he carries out his plan.

- Length: 5 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 150 Comments

Naming Day

by Vicki Doronina

On the morning of the Naming Day, I am up early.

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 3 Comments

Mending Jones

by Mina Moss

It was eerie sometimes, how a room filled with talking people would quiet up when he spoke. I felt like I was that room full of people then.

- Length: 16 pages

- Age Rating: 18

- 1 Comments

The House Of The Dead Hand

by Edith Wharton

With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.

- Length: 30 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 7 Comments

Autumn Flowers, And The Spring

by Jamie Brindle

These things do not happen to the dead, she told herself.

- Length: 18 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Suffocating

by Mina Moss

His mother once told him a story about how his granddaddy nearly gave her away.

- Length: 10 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Antonio Consoli

by Martin Westlake

There was always news, Antonio thought, as the announcer’s name started to boom out, and he was glad for that.

- Length: 13 pages

- Age Rating: PG

One Last Wish

by Robert Hasker

“It’s always the same to begin with,” I said. “I’m on the beach. The sand is hot, the sun is bearing down. It makes the sand look white, like snow.”

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: 15

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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

- 1176 Comments

One Last Wish

by Robert Hasker

“It’s always the same to begin with,” I said. “I’m on the beach. The sand is hot, the sun is bearing down. It makes the sand look white, like snow.”

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: 15

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

- Length: 8 pages