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Humorous reversal of the Aesop fable.
Venture capitalists get a bashing in this witty reworking of the Aesop-style fable.
Modern fable about a physician who sells a miraculous yellow paint.
Sophia, a beautiful married woman, and her neighbour Ilyin meet 'by accident' - he wants to declare his love for her, she to tell him to stop pursuing.
A woman prepares to deal with life without her partner.
A heir has an attack of concience and tries to 'pay back' his capitalist father's ill-gotten gains - but finds it harder than he imagined.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
A New York gentleman desperate for attention from the press enlists the help of a grafter - who learns a valuable lesson about women.
The strange and incredible truth behind the sudden disappearance of Johnny Bellchambers.
A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
Two sisters readjust their lives following the death of their father.
A man prepares to propose to a woman he considers hopelessly out of his league.
A cautionary tale about irrational fears, spiders and, perhaps, friendship.
A subtle depiction of a couple's relationship as they sit out on the veranda.
A young soldier, assigned as a guard in a prisoner of war camp, has trouble dealing with the horrific conditions.
European-flavoured tale of the mysterious, rotund Gudrun Schmidt von Feldenstein and her Mexican winters. Contains adult material.
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.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
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.
