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An apparently gentle man becomes increasingly less so as he sinks deeper into an obsession with a mysterious black cat.
A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds, reptiles and a man-eating black puma.
Frankly, Framton Nuttel doubted whether these formal visits on a succession of total strangers would do much towards helping his nerve cure.
It is not Pneumonia alone that is killing Johnsy - for some reason, she has resigned herself to death.
Animals talk to eachother, of course. An expert tells of one particularly verbal creature.
Death came around once a month...
Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
There is a presence in Theresa's room, watching her ...
A man takes up an offer to stay with a charming but ferocious baron - who promises some unusual hunting near his cold Carpathian home.
A family receive a visit from a newly wealthy relation - a man they had previously shunned due to his notorious character flaw.
A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.
A banker is disturbed by visions of a murdered man and his killer. Then he is called for jury duty.
A family with an unusual method of transporting large quantities of money cause problems for a young man holidaying in Italy.
A disillusioned look at life following futher education.
A Venturer - one who does not ask a schedule and map from Fate when he begins a journey. Two venturers challenge eachother.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
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?
