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A man has to make a difficult decision.
After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her weekly cycle trips down a usually deserted road.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
Rupert becomes increasingly hateful towards his incompetent brother-in-law to be.
Humorous parable about a king who unwisely seeks advice from his subjects on a tough engineering problem.
A tale set in a fairground that will strike a chord with anyone who has siblings.
An avaricious farmer makes arangements to have his dying mother looked after so he can get his crop in.
Lady Prowche has trouble putting together a guest list that will ensure her house party is argument-free.
A witty dinner conversation in which Clovis decides it is time his mother thought about getting married.
There was a lot at stake. Too much to lose. They reckon we all have our price, and Algy knew mine.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
“I’m having a problem with something I did. I mean something I didn’t do but should’ve. And I can’t make it right. It was really bad."
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
In his experience, being clairvoyant was a meddlesome burden with far too many costs and too few benefits.
Five years and Nolan had always been there. Five years and Dane always appeared nervous, as if it were a first date.
In a devastated world, a group of men travel to New York, with something special in a suitcase.
People aren't always what they seem.
Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.
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?
