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A Confederate soldier carries a locket around his neck.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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What feelings lie behind a kiss?
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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She has everything she needs, everything she ever wanted - why would she risk losing it all?
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A magistrate is visited by a doctor who hides a dark secret behind his penetrating pale blue eyes.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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Is Barry hallucinating again?
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A tutor is given an artichoke plant and soon learns that taking care of it is not going to be easy.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Horror, Humor
4 Stars
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A visit to an old friend takes an unexpected turn.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Morality tale based on an elderly uncle's promise of his fortune to a thrifty couple.
- Length: 32 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A confrontation between an imaginative nine year old girl and an agressive young boy.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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Fairy tale about a little fir tree that wants to grow up.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
4 Stars
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Boredom leads a rector into temptation following his move to a country parish.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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On a wet and windy night, three strangers turn up at a young girl's christening party.
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Modern fable about a physician who sells a miraculous yellow paint.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A reluctant banker tries horn playing as a substitute for his errant girlfriend.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
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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