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Tender portrait of a man known as Wing Biddlebaum who's hands have played a particularly significant role in his life.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Hughie Erskine is good-looking but penniless and needs ten thousand pounds to wed the love of his life. Then he drops in on a painter friend......
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A Korean politician, in jail for diverting just a few too many public funds, develops a cunning escape plan.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A trigic, ironic Christmas for one hard up couple.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The story of a man's encounter with a painstakingly mysterious girlfriend.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The woman everyone affectionately calls 'La Folle' has never ventured beyond the bayou near her cabin.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Grief has a sobering effect on a drunkard craftsman as he takes his sick wife to hospital during a blizzard.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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An Arizona man on a brief trip to New York bumps into an old friend - but finds him changed by his seven years in the city.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A heir has an attack of concience and tries to 'pay back' his capitalist father's ill-gotten gains - but finds it harder than he imagined.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A country boy arrives in the city - but is mistaken for a confidence trickster.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Danny McCree wakes up one morning to find it's Easter Day and his father's on about hippopotamuses.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
A dramatic confrontation between two sworn enemies in a generation-old land dispute.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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With a mixture of excitement and trepidation, a country girl newly arrived in the city attends her first ball.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A music teacher takes a singing class soon after receiving a terrible letter.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars