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A young man hangs himself in prison. Public defender Audrey Meyers reflects on the events that led to his death.
Detailing the last days of the notorious drinker and homosexual Comte Ronald de Ronaldo Bonnefont.
A married couple return to the groom's home town to start their life together - but his position as town marshal complicates matters.
A spectacular party is thrown in honour of the Infanta of Spain's birthday; there are actors, jugglers, magicians - and a dancing dwarf. A heart-wrenching tale about inner and outer beauty.
At the marriage of a handsome prince to a beautiful princess, a spectacular firework display is planned. This is the story of those fireworks - and one very important rocket in particular.
A man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts.
The story of a pretty young girl who unwittingly puts on a pair of magic shoes.
A man sets out to uncover the secrets of the strange natural phenomenon that is the Maelstrom vortex.
'I fancy there are few persons living today who ever knew the secret of that window, but I am one, as you shall see.'
The first thing any physicist learns about traveling faster than light is that it is impossible.
The target, the target. I had little to go on.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
. 'Do you think he's sometimes too perfect?' she said quietly.
A long way overhead a jet soared, like a gull on currents of air.
Jon Roxton was born lucky, or so he told himself...
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Fiction
Sometimes everything depends on the odds.
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.
