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The day the rain starts, Skylish skips classes with a new friend.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Kung fu dubbee and would-be actress, Ally gets one last chance.
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A Buddy Holly tribute band hits trouble when the County Fair pitches its tents.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A beautiful but rude and conceited princess is taught a lesson.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
5 Stars
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A boy goes for a haircut with his father.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A boy is influenced by his father's unusual explanations.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A musician helps out a young girl.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Romance
5 Stars
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The story of a frantic chase, an apathetic crowd and a machete.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A prospective buyer goes to look round a French chateau (complete with chapel and tombs) but finds the place deserted - apart from a strange pack of dogs.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
5 Stars
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A wicked enchantress imprisons a beautiful girl in a tower.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
5 Stars
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A drifter describes making, spending and losing a few bucks. Contains strong language.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Lisa returns to the island of her honeymoon to think about her marriage.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Romance
5 Stars
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A short break and a cat's response throw light on a relationship.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Maupassant's short masterpiece following the journey of a group of civilians during the Franco-Prussian war.
- Length: 42 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Romance
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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