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Upper and working class collide as young Laura's family throw a lavish garden party.
Portrait of an old lady deeply affected by the death of her grandson.
As Bertha Young turns the corner of her street she is overcome by a feeling of bliss. Subtle tale of the events surrounding a couple's dinner party.
An older woman goes for a walk in the park.
A day in the life of the inhabitants of Crescent Bay.
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 coulple are left in charge of a difficult young girl while her mother visits a Casino.
A portrait of a couple's post-divorce relationship as a lawyer visits his ex-wife and their two children.
A young girl is sent off on a voyage with her grandmother.
With a mixture of excitement and trepidation, a country girl newly arrived in the city attends her first ball.
A music teacher takes a singing class soon after receiving a terrible letter.
A man waits for his wife to disembark the ship she has returned on after ten months in Europe.
A literary sketch of a bank holiday fair.
After another hard day's work at the office, an aging man reflects on the state of his family.
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.
I like the tennis courts 'cause they're green, red, and white, but the truth is—I hate tennis.
Emma nervously entered the classroom and found an empty desk while she felt the burning power of a hundred sets of eyes staring. She expected the teasing and giggles, but she didn’t expect silence.
Mimosa Mitchell was an 85-year-old “pillar of the community” and matriarch of one of the most prominent families in Petunia Springs.
Mrs. McDoogle had a bugle,
But she couldn’t play a note.
‘What shall we do with the body?’ The other one rubbed his chin. ‘Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, eh?
I feel the laboured contractions of your heart, pounding to maintain my mirrored beat, as you toil to grow me in time
