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The 40-Year-Old Marigolds” is a personal essay that ties gardening in childhood to the present day. It has themes of family ties, nature, nostalgia, and the bridge of place and time.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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As Special Agent in Charge of this District, my years following leads and writing investigative reports were behind me. Now, one part of my job is delivering this investigative file to the D.A.
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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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
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Konrad picked up his lance. When the judge gave the signal, he aimed his weapon at his adversary and opened the valve that allowed the steam to flow into the piston. His armored motorcycle shot out across the tiltyard seeking to ram Baron von Kobell
- Length: 29 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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I’m actually looking forward to staying the night in an old castle.” Courtney glanced up the High Street. “I was told about the beauty of Broadway and I have to say, they were right. It certainly does take your breath away.”
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The old farmhouse had idled on the market ever since the previous owners had died in a freak fire. Investigators had suspected arson but never uncovered evidence.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Taking in my garden, the wild space surrounding it, full of Spanish grasses and the song of a meadowlark echoing over it, I realized, not for the first time, that I had been very fortunate in the place I lived as a child, some forty years before.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Dr. Vandermeer laughed. First to himself because he was a true capitalist. Then out loud because he simply wanted to.
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The dinner invitation was totally unexpected since Josiah Gorgas had not heard from his high school and college buddy Austin Ervin in well over a decade.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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“Are you sure you’re ready, Melvin?” She paused. “What happened the last time wasn’t your fault.”
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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“We could go to Principle Martin’s office right now. An offense like this would lead to a week suspension at best. Pick up the pen and write.” I sighed and wrote, “Montgomery Sanchez. May 29th, 2005.”
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. Ghostly, eldritch, like Dave had stepped into another world. The branches swayed with a slight breeze, and the leaves rustled out a mellifluous harmony.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: 18
5 Stars
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The first thing any physicist learns about traveling faster than light is that it is impossible.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
3 Stars
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That afternoon, she still believed that her father had not meant what he had done. Once the black cloud had lifted, as it always did, he would come to his senses and beg Mum’s forgiveness.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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by Saki
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime, Humor
5 Stars
“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
- Genre: Fiction
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
- Genre: Fiction, Humor
5 Stars
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
I like the tennis courts 'cause they're green, red, and white, but the truth is—I hate tennis.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre:
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Dr. Vandermeer laughed. First to himself because he was a true capitalist. Then out loud because he simply wanted to.
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
Emma nervously entered the classroom and found an empty desk while she felt the burning power of a hundred sets of eyes staring. She expected the teasing and giggles, but she didn’t expect silence.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
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
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
As a rule, the Bishop was more in than out. Consequently the size, the airiness, and the aggressive modernity of the room made quite an impression on him. Deacon Sue realised this from the way he quietly looked around and nodded.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
Konrad picked up his lance. When the judge gave the signal, he aimed his weapon at his adversary and opened the valve that allowed the steam to flow into the piston. His armored motorcycle shot out across the tiltyard seeking to ram Baron von Kobell
- Length: 29 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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