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Albert peered out across the way. Snow stretched for miles. The earth remained silent. Albert was alone. As he had been for the past decade.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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An unusual Saturday night in with Dimitri and Beth-Ann.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
3 Stars
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"He couldn’t understand why I wanted to leave the capital to spend New Year’s Eve in a second-rate resort town. We were looking for the sky, I explained."
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 18
3 Stars
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After such a pleasant stay at the conference in New Mexico, where his talks had gone well, and everyone had been so kind, it was distinctly uninspiring to fly home to a wife whose love for him had long been in doubt.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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It wasn’t fury that vitalised Hannah, it was loss, grief even – though heaven knows she shouldn’t be the one grieving. But she couldn’t bear him just carrying on without her.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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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
5 Stars
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Adapted from a Minang folk tale from Sumatra, this story tells of the ambitious and resourceful Malin Kundang.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A deaf girl tells her boyfriend that she can lip read his tone.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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The story of an wholly unphilosophical girl and her two suitors.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Retirement had been rougher on Dudley DuBose. Always way more career-focused than his wife, it had been tough adjusting to the record amount of free time.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
Berry liked movies. Correction, he loved them.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
Retirement had been rougher on Dudley DuBose. Always way more career-focused than his wife, it had been tough adjusting to the record amount of free time.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
Can you be star-crossed lovers in your sixties? Well, that’s how Tony and Erica looked at each other like there was no one else in the world that mattered more to them.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
First, they stood. Right beside each other. “It’s in the air,” she said. “See?” He looked, but he was either unsure or unwilling.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
Mimosa Mitchell was an 85-year-old “pillar of the community” and matriarch of one of the most prominent families in Petunia Springs.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
I feel the laboured contractions of your heart, pounding to maintain my mirrored beat, as you toil to grow me in time
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
The thunder in the rolling blanket of clouds marked a season of cleansing, a time of remembrance. It was also a time of death. The Sailor knew that well.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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