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A couple are in agreement on the ethics of marriage but personal feelings, inevitably, intrude.
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of place.
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
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A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime, Humor
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
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
Mrs. McDoogle had a bugle, But she couldn’t play a note.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
5 Stars
Over the next three years, they became a couple. Not romantically, but as close and valued companions who shared their hopes and ambitions, their fears and regrets, their successes and disappointments.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
If there was one thing Alex knew about JP by now, it was that the elaboration of a keenly held opinion wouldn’t be far away. And so it proved.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Humor
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
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
I had known Bill for five years but had never seen him outside the office. “Don’t you find that strange?” Annie asked me one evening.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
‘What shall we do with the body?’ The other one rubbed his chin. ‘Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, eh?
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
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