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A Little Fable by Franz Kafka
Cynical fable.
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 1 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Spite by Sam Silva
A short piece of lyrical prose.
- Date Added: February 2001
- Length: 1 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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To Sit in the Sun by Joanna Leyland
When the cold has settled deep in your bones ...
- Date Added: December 2008
- Length: 1 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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Bitches And Whores And The US Army by Sam Silva
Very short story.
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 1 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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The Yellow Paint by Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern fable about a physician who sells a miraculous yellow paint.
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Cricket War by Bob Thurber
A family start a war with nature when they move to the country.
- Date Added: November 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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In The Evenings by Melissa Checker
Description of a dysfunctional family's evenings. Contains strong language.
- Date Added: August 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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The Image Of The Lost Soul by Saki
A sweet-voiced but lonely bird finds refuge with an isolated statue.
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Rating:5 stars
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Hope and Comfort by A. J. McKenna
A man visits his wife in hospital.
- Date Added: August 2000
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Five Boons Of Life by Mark Twain
Deeply pessimistic tale about what in life holds value.
- Date Added: May 2002
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Old Nothing by Cameron Porsandeh
Unusual barber shop conversation.
- Date Added: August 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce
John Mortonson was dead. His body rested in a fine mahogany coffin fitted with a plate of glass ...
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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My Name is Electra by Joanna Leyland
A little girl introduces herself and her family.
- Date Added: April 2005
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Fireworks by Tom Gillespie
A woman prepares to deal with life without her partner.
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Fishing For Jasmine by John Ravenscroft
A woman feels an affinity with a coma patient in her care.
- Date Added: March 2003
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:4 stars
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Till Death Do Us Part by David L. Kramer
A disturbing portrait of a man consumed by grief. Contains descriptions of violence.
- Date Added: April 2000
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Rating:4 stars
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Blind by Ann Fischer
A woman talks about her marriage.
- Date Added: March 2006
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
A woman hears news of her husband's death.
- Date Added: November 2000
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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She by Charles Kaufmann
A protagonist and her author have a falling-out.
- Date Added: February 2009
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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My Beloved Edith by Tom Gillespie
An old man, his memory failing, searches for the grave of his lost love.
- Date Added: August 2001
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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