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A renegade experimental psycologist explains how to inflict his methods on the general public.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A cautionary tale about irrational fears, spiders and, perhaps, friendship.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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When little Juan Manuel defaces a neighbour's door the potential dispute escalates in a bizarre direction.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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While dusting off his extensive library, the narrator discovers a diminutive man on one of the lower shelves.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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When his key breaks off on the inside of his apartment, the narrator must fight bureaucracy and apathy in increasingly desperate attempts to escape.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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by Saki
When Leonard Bilsiter claims to wield enormous powers - conferred on him by a mastery of Siberian Magic - Clovis decides to set the record straight.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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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
5 Stars
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A penniless man is bet that he can't survive for a month - starting and ending with nothing but an implausible, but real, £1,000,000 note. Trading Places, Brewster's Millions. . . . .
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A perfectly simple time travel experiment is made increasingly complex by the involvement of the inventor's other half.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A frank account of the experiences of one man who found his perfect partner.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A man is told by a palm reader that he will commit a murder. A satirical crime story that cleverly reverses the conventions of the genre.
- Length: 33 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 cautionary tale for anyone considering involvement in high finance.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
2 Stars
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Witty reworking of the Aesop-style fable.
- Length: 1 page
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Witty reworking of the Aesop-style fable.
- Length: 1 page
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars