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Nobody knew for sure how the slumbering dragon got there, but one thing everybody agreed on was that one day it would wake.
A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
The story of the violinist Ramonti and a woman with two jealous suitors.
Upper and working class collide as young Laura's family throw a lavish garden party.
A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow.
A boy helps out 'the deaf kid' who is being picked on by the orphanage bullies.
A frank account of the experiences of one man who found his perfect partner.
Hughie Erskine is good-looking but penniless and needs ten thousand pounds to wed the love of his life. Then he drops in on a painter friend......
Classic fable. Moral: Slow but steady progress wins the race.
Classic fable. Moral: There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
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.
While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else is allowed to enter.
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 scientific city-man encounters the legend of a terrifying monster when he retires to Derbyshire.
A young boy's attempt to model himself on Elvis highlights the realities of life in an orphange.
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.
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.
"It's at the ranch, on the other side of the farm, in those mountains. All we need to do is catch it. Can you imagine how much we can sell it for?
