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A first person account of a man's torture at the hands of The Spanish Inquisition.
These things do not happen to the dead, she told herself.
If there was anyone in the world who wasn’t cursed, it was Sam.
Once again I cursed to myself the idea of having planned this writing course
Her notes were played as the light dance steps of lovers...
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
They danced and the cat-rat danced with them
His watch was a large, solid Breitling which he wore in defiance of all the advice he’d been given...
Once again, Joseph noticed the anger in his friend’s eyes.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
"He couldn’t understand why I wanted to leave the capital to spend New Year’s Eve in a second-rate resort town. We were looking for the sky, I explained."
The narrator captures a rare rabbit-like creature, thought to be extinct for over a century.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
Jocantha decides to share her happiness with the less fortunate through a spot of afternoon philanthropy.
A young employee has an encounter with the company general manager.
Waking up on Saturday morning with a hangover having lost his company's biggest account, the narrator takes steps to retain his job. Contains adult language.
Crefton Lockyer begins to suspect that all is not right in the seemingly peaceful villiage of Mowsle Barton. One word: Witches!
The residents of the Villa Elsinore lose a baby. Then they find a baby. Then they find another baby.
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?
