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  February 2009
The Other Option by Jamie Brindle
Quince returns to the life-selling business, but this time he's got competition
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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Paris, at Night by Sung J. Woo
"You grow memory like a crop, and when you want to, you harvest it."
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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  December 2008
Fear No More by George Anthony
Jonte has spent his whole life in a radiation shelter, but the arrival of eight strangers is the start of an adventure that will change his life forever.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
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Professor Panini by Matthew Grigg
Professor Panini is too clever for his own good.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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To Sit in the Sun by Joanna Leyland
When the cold has settled deep in your bones ...
- Length: 1 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones
When the ugly girl decides to find herself a husband she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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  December 2007
The Star by Esther Claes
Not even fame can protect you when the world goes wrong.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:4 stars
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  November 2007
Visiting The Millionaire by George Anthony
An attempt is made to visit the millionaire.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:4 stars
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Time, Art & Criticism by Paul Trembling
What is art? And who decides? The artist or the critic?
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  October 2006
Time, Again by Tim Maly
"Before we met, you showed me your diary."
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  June 2006
Pumping Up Napoleon by Maria Donovan
Napoleon is resurrected and meets a young lady.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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  January 2006
The Big Deal by Jamie Brindle
Quince sells death. No wonder he likes his job.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  October 2004
They're Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson
A conversation about an unusual discovery.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  September 2002
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter.
- Length: 26 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  May 2002
An Enlightening Book by Fernando Sorrentino
Detailing Dr Ludwig Boitus' studies of the strangely charastmatic Caliguinas bird.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Chastisement By The Lambs by Fernando Sorrentino
A man investigates an increasingly common phenomenon involving carnivorous lambs with a highly developed sense of justice.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Empire Of The Parakeets by Fernando Sorrentino
Revealing the sinister hidden agenda behind the apparently pointless behaviour of a particular type of tiny green insect.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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  December 2001
A Psychological Shipwreck by Ambrose Bierce
A man sets sail from Liverpool to New York on 'The Morrow' where he becomes attracted to a strange young woman.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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An Inhabitant Of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
A man wakes from thought and realises he is wandering on an unfamiliar and desolate expanse of plain.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce
When asked for the time at a party, a man becomes aggressive and is strangely reluctant to look at his watch.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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