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Haut Graves became hot graves, in his mouth.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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Two travellers meet on the night flight from Bangalore.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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A young boy heads to the pond to go fishing but catches something much bigger along the way.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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They heard the sirens in the distance and they watched the flames gasping into the night and he thought that this must be what the end of the world was going to look like.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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A man is asked to collect some items from a house where the lover of an old acquaintance recently died.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
3 Stars
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Sometimes everything depends on the odds.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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A troublesome package is left at the home of an employee of the Insignia Financial Group.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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Speculation about the outcome of the closest Derby race in years intensifies when Lola Pevensey claims to have dreamt the winner.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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In the town of Blackburg - home of raining frogs, crimson snow and Hettie Parlow's ghost - a young tramp stands on a street corner in the rain.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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Returing home with a copy of Lethal Weapon IV under one arm, Katherine is surprised to find her sister waiting in the living room - especially since she has been dead for eight years.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Sci-Fi
3 Stars
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by Saki
Mrs Mebberly takes on a little more than expected when she arranges to take the angelic looking young 'Adrian' on holiday.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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A man traces the unfortunate story of someone from his past.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
2 Stars
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Can you be star-crossed lovers in your sixties? Well, that’s how Tony and Erica looked at each other like there was no one else in the world that mattered more to them.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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"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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Berry liked movies. Correction, he loved them.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 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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