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A comedy about an unlikely correspondence.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre:
5 Stars
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There is a bleached skeleton that holds no marrow
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.
- Length: 1 page
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre:
5 Stars
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Then one year she started falling ...
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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My name is John Price AD, and I have to decide if someone lives or dies.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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One summer Mickey and his best friend decide to grow a lizard
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Angie helps her brothers make a hole for a fence post.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- 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
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Napoleon is resurrected and meets a young lady.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction, Humor, Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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A family takes its annual trip to Camp Meeting
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A writer has some problems getting started on his latest work.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction, Humor
5 Stars
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A mother has great ambitions for her daughter's ice-skating career.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Two women meet at a Woody Allen film.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Romance
5 Stars
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A brilliant scientist who believes that machines can think creates something dangerous in his workshop.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.
- Length: 32 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
5 Stars
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Top Short Stories
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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