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"What You Want"
A man rich enough to despise everything that money can buy goes out and tries to want something that he can't pay for.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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A Bird Of Bagdad
The story of a suitor, a riddle and an ever-helpful restaurenteur.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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A Municipal Report
A portrait of Nashville through the eyes of an adventurous stranger.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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A Night In New Arabia
When millionaire Jacob Spraggins, Esq. hits his late fifties, he begins to worry about his soul's salvation.
(Humour,Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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A Ramble In Aphasia
First-person account of a successful lawyer's sudden loss of memory and the resulting adventure.
(Humour,Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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An Unfinished Story
The narrator's entrance into the afterlife is used to frame a story highlighting the pitiful conditions of one girl's working life.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: July 2000
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Babes In The Jungle
Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
(Fiction,Humour)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Compliments Of The Season
A narrator who believes that children are pestilential little animals tells a Christmas story about the daughter of the Millionaire and her missing rag-doll.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Past One At Rodney's
A tough gang member wanted for murder meets a lady in a bar.
(Fiction,Romance)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Proof Of The Pudding
A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
(Fiction,Humour)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Psyche And The Pskyscraper
The story of an wholly unphilosophical girl and her two suitors.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Strictly Business
The story behind the celebrated vaudeville team of (Bob) Hart & (Winona) Cherry. A witty tale of theatre folk.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Call Of The Tame
An Arizona man on a brief trip to New York bumps into an old friend - but finds him changed by his seven years in the city.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Day Resurgent
Danny McCree wakes up one morning to find it's Easter Day and his father's on about hippopotamuses.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Duel
An artist and a businessman travel from the west to seek their fortunes in New York.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Fifth Wheel
A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Furnished Room
A young man searches for his lost love around the filthy bedsits of New York.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Gift of the Magi
A trigic, ironic Christmas for one hard up couple.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: July 1999
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Girl And The Graft
A New York gentleman desperate for attention from the press enlists the help of a grafter - who learns a valuable lesson about women.
(Humour)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Girl And The Habit
The story of Miss Merriam, the lovely, capable cashier at Hinkle's.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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