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by Saki
Luitpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat, sits in a cafe in Vienna and contemplates news of the rise of the Balkan States.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Wistful story about communication in a relationship.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A family start a war with nature when they move to the country.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Unusual barber shop conversation.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Modern fable about a physician who sells a miraculous yellow paint.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A woman prepares to deal with life without her partner.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A woman hears news of her husband's death.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A disturbing portrait of a man consumed by grief. Contains descriptions of violence.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 18
4 Stars
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The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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There’s all these picturesque poems, anecdotes about scattering loved ones’ ashes. Things meant to be profound, symbolic.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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There was a long conversation then, and many qualifications and a great deal of sympathy; but the long and short of it was that I had aggressive macular degeneration, which is a fancy way of saying: I was going blind.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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Fifteen minutes to the deadline. Fifteen minutes to write the words that would end the career of a man who had once saved his life...
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Private Alexander Huxley sat in the hull of the C-47, jaw clenched and lips twisted into a savage grimace. The weight of his parachute kept him hunched in his seat, and the straps of his harness and weapon case chafed raw swathes into his skin.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Where am I? She wonders. None of the details of the room feel familiar. She gets up. Slowly. It feels like her body is bound; it is almost suffocating. Why do I ache so much?
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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“Going souling", they used to call it. I can remember m’grandad telling me he used to do it, when he were little, going round the houses and offering to say prayers for the dead, in exchange for these little cakes, soul cakes they called ‘em.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars