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by Christopher Whitby

. 'Do you think he's sometimes too perfect?' she said quietly.

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: U

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The Cards

by Louisa Campbell

You have to play the cards you're dealt

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 1 Comments

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

Notes on Preserving Beech Leaves, 2001-2003

by George Sandison

I am looking at something I thought mine alone...a beech leaf, brittle and brown now.

- Length: 10 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Lizard Boy

by Peter Andrews

One summer Mickey and his best friend decide to grow a lizard

- Length: 14 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 37 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

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 1 Comments

Saving Lives

by Martin Westlake

Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night

- Length: 11 pages

- Age Rating: 15

Cusp

by Christopher Whitby

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

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

The Furnished Room

by O. Henry

A young man searches for his lost love around the filthy bedsits of New York.

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 23 Comments

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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

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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

- Age Rating: PG

- 1 Comments

The Dancer

by Bashir Sakhawarz

He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.