An excerpt from the life of a resident at a Californian mental institution. Told in the first person, the story offers a glimpse through another's eyes and mind.

A Korean politician, in jail for diverting just a few too many public funds, develops a cunning escape plan.

An insight into perhaps the strangest instance of marital delinquency on record.

A young woman is forced to reveal the terrible sin she has committed.

A prize fighter struggles to survive in his twilight years. A lyrical Rocky 10.

A man sets out to uncover the secrets of the strange natural phenomenon that is the Maelstrom vortex.

The misadventures of a group of reluctant soldiers during the American civil war - in many ways, this story anticipates Catch 22.

'I fancy there are few persons living today who ever knew the secret of that window, but I am one, as you shall see.'

A man's attempt to save the woman of his dreams goes embarassingly wrong.

In the midst of a fearsome storm, a sceptic is confronted by a passionate salesman.

A boy defies his hated guardian through the worship of a great ferret who lives in the tool-shed.

At night, under the shadow of of a great mountain, a family receive a visit from an emotional stranger.

A man and his dog fight for survival during a bitterly cold Arctic trek.

Theodoric is not alone in his train compartment and, while not actually afraid of mice.....

It is not Pneumonia alone that is killing Johnsy - for some reason, she has resigned herself to death.