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An artist and a businessman travel from the west to seek their fortunes in New York.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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The story of an wholly unphilosophical girl and her two suitors.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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The strange and incredible truth behind the sudden disappearance of Johnny Bellchambers.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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A country boy arrives in the city - but is mistaken for a confidence trickster.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Humor
4 Stars
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General Falcon - revolutionary - arrives in New York from Columbia unprepared for both the golden-haired ladies and the silver-tongued con-artists.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Humor
4 Stars
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A music teacher takes a singing class soon after receiving a terrible letter.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A sad, gentle tale of memories and a magic moneybox.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A young soldier, assigned as a guard in a prisoner of war camp, has trouble dealing with the horrific conditions.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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When Paolo falls ill, he becomes convinced it is the result of black magic directed at him by ex-girlfriend Morgana. Contains strong language.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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The story of the Filipino wife of a misogynistic soldier.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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When Leonard Bilsiter claims to wield enormous powers - conferred on him by a mastery of Siberian Magic - Clovis decides to set the record straight.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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A soldier encounters a beautiful girl.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A resting model finds her privacy invaded by a young man and a very particular piece of poetry.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Horror
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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