A poor woman borrows a necklace from a rich friend. Classic twisty tale.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A dog comes across a huge, mysterious gate that may just mark the end of his long journey.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
With her husband away, a mother has to look after her children alone in their home in the Australian bush.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A wronged stranger determines to revenge himself on the most honest town in America.
- Length: 51 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Genuinely tragic story of a dog's devotion to his master.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Local prospectors wait expectantly for the return of Henry's wife.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Deeply pessimistic tale about what in life holds value.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The first man on earth recalls the early years.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Creation's early days as recounted by earth's first woman.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
On Christmas Eve in remote settlement cut off by heavy flooding, a group of men pay a visit on a deprived boy.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
It is said that when a Cernogratz dies in the family castle, the wolves in the forest howl all night long ... but Baroness Gruebel, new owner of Cernogratz castle, is sceptical.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A sweet-voiced but lonely bird finds refuge with an isolated statue.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: U
A man uncovers the dark secret of a mysterious valley owned by a xenophobic drunkard.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The workers in a damp, underground bakery dote on a young servant girl from the floor above.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The story of the poor, downtrodden clerk Akaky - and his overcoat.
- Length: 26 pages
- Age Rating: PG