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Blues in the Night

by Jennifer Jenkinson

When Katherine sails into a secluded bay she seems destined to meet a creative kindred spirit in blues musician Matt.

- Length: 19 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 83 Comments

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Return to Paradise

by Eliza Riley

Lisa returns to the island of her honeymoon to think about her marriage.

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 522 Comments

Learning The Western Alphabet

by Hilary Jenkins

A love story in two voices: Martin Green, an English teacher in China in the 1980s, and MingMing, his young Chinese 'minder'

- Length: 28 pages

- Age Rating: 15

- 58 Comments

Amy Foster

by Joseph Conrad

A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.

- Length: 26 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 38 Comments

Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter.

- Length: 28 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 22 Comments

Staring Me In The Face

by Glynis Gertsch

Have Jeanna and Malcolm something more in common than a love of books?

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 88 Comments

Three Letters

by Nels Schifano

A woman reflects on an old love.

- Length: 7 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 83 Comments

Courage of the Heart

by Lisa Malice

In his experience, being clairvoyant was a meddlesome burden with far too many costs and too few benefits.

- Length: 9 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 3 Comments

French Love Letters

by Stephen McClure

I have a special reason for wanting to find someone with knowledge of French, and my intuition – which I always trust – told me I would find that person here in Zenpukuji Park.

- Length: 19 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 2 Comments

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Courage of the Heart

by Lisa Malice

In his experience, being clairvoyant was a meddlesome burden with far too many costs and too few benefits.

- Length: 9 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 3 Comments

French Love Letters

by Stephen McClure

I have a special reason for wanting to find someone with knowledge of French, and my intuition – which I always trust – told me I would find that person here in Zenpukuji Park.

- Length: 19 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 2 Comments

Simon at the Shore Line

by Jonas Hurwitz

Are halter-tops and half price Bermudas part of the grand design?

- Length: 17 pages

- Age Rating: 18

- 49 Comments

Return to Paradise

by Eliza Riley

Lisa returns to the island of her honeymoon to think about her marriage.