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Deeply pessimistic tale about what in life holds value.
Two women meet at a Woody Allen film.
A chance meeting brings back memories of a difficult childhood.
A short break and a cat's response throw light on a relationship.
A son's eye view of his father's gambling and their relationship.
An alternative to the traditional methods.
The events surrounding the birth of a child - the father a member of an important Louisiana family; the mother a woman found abandoned as a baby.
Two woodcutters discover a baby where a shooting star falls - but the child it becomes is both beautiful and cruel.
A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone.
When a popular local doctor is murdered, the angry brother of his ex-fiance seems the obvious suspect - until the doctor's uknown past begins to reveal itself.
An apparently impossible scenario involving the diappearance of three people from and the appearance of a totally unknown - dead - fourth on a moving train.
A prince's mother takes steps to ensure her son marrys a real princess.
An emperor whose only ambition is to be well dressed falls victim to a couple of visiting swindlers.
The mother of a brood of beautiful ducklings gets a surprise when her final, largest egg hatches.
On a cold winter's night, a penniless young girl is left selling matches on the street.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“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.
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.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
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.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
