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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 newly imported King of England finds a harsh - but effective - way of dealing with the country's feminists.
A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappearances.
The story of a destructive rivalry between two brilliant scientists.
Seeking shelter for the night, a wounded man breaks into a bizarre, abandoned chateau decorated by an unusually large number of paintings.
Two kidnappers fail to heed the old adage - never work with children.
A young man searches for his lost love around the filthy bedsits of New York.
The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow include Ichabod, the lovely Katrina and very possibly a headless ghost.
The story of a man's encounter with a painstakingly mysterious girlfriend.
The original gothic tale of madness, death and the atmospheric possibilities of an old house.
A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.
A modern fairy tale about the selfless acts of a golden statue and a migrating swallow.
What exactly is friendship? A miller has very strong opinions on the subject in this witty tale narrated by a bird.
No Trespassing! - The tale of one giant and his garden.
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?
