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by Saki
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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by Saki
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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by Saki
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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The woman everyone affectionately calls 'La Folle' has never ventured beyond the bayou near her cabin.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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The Duchess of Dulverton sends an errant nephew to search for underwater gold.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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The Stossens encounter more problems than expected when they try and crash a garden party through an apparently empty paddock.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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Suzanne stays at the bedside of her dying sister, who she has lived with her whole life.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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They live in the world's safest place, but are seized with an irrational fear. The locals begin to take drastic precautions to protect themselves.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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When the cold has settled deep in your bones ...
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Sci-Fi
4 Stars
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An attempt is made to visit the millionaire.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Sci-Fi
4 Stars
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Three very different lives intersect.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A young Lady employs Holmes to negotiate with London's most notorious blackmailer.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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The reaction of one Nepalese family when a learned sadhu prophesizes the end of the world.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
4 Stars
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An atmospheric recollection of a riverside encounter.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
4 Stars
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A boy secretly looks after a kitten after saving it from being drowned.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
4 Stars
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A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime, Humor
5 Stars
“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.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
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
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
"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.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
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.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
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.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
"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?
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
5 Stars
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