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Heart is Home
by Nicholas Kish
Two men at a fishing spot see Joe and Teddy Emmanual and their sister Carrie ...
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:3 stars
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Do You Speak English?
by Simon Collings
A tourist couple stray from the beaten track and find themselves out of their depth.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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Swimming Away
by Clare Reddaway
Rosie and her Mum have a day at the beach.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
Occupation
by Charlie Taylor
Jimmy's life changes for ever when the soldiers come to the door.
- Length: 26 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
Gifts to the Dark Gods
by Mary McCluskey
She has everything she needs, everything she ever wanted - why would she risk losing it all?
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
Before/After
by Mary McCluskey
The moment when a life changes - and there's no going back.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
In Country
by James Ross
Moving day for Danny and his father.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
The Orbital Road
by AC Tillyer
The new road was meant to relieve congestion, but then, determined and obsessive, the Spinners arrived ...
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
The Ancient Burial Grounds of Tonopah
by Dan Morgan
Grady drives out into the desert in search of gold.
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
The Heebie-Jeebies
by Alan Beard
Is Barry hallucinating again?
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:2 stars
The Archipelago
by AC Tillyer
They live in the world's safest place, but are seized with an irrational fear. The locals begin to take drastic precautions to protect themselves.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 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: 14 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
The Card
by James Ross
'The only thing I ever got off my old man was a birthday card when I was ten.'
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
Tone
by YZ Chin
A deaf girl tells her boyfriend that she can lip read his tone.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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
Metropolis
by Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo
"This is how you talk about a city you love. You talk about it as if it’s the only place in the world where this story can happen."
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
Fall North
by Tim McLean
Ed runs an errand for Mr. Rollo.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
86th Street and the Summer of Love
by Colin C. Conway
Gang violence against the backdrop of a distant war
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
Lizard Boy
by Peter Andrews
One summer Mickey and his best friend decide to grow a lizard
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Rating:5 stars
The Pilgrims
by Charles Kaufmann
Over the course of the summer, John and the Pilgrims became friends.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
Learning The Western Alphabet
by Hilary Jenkins
A love story in two voices: Martin Green, an English teacher in China in the 1980s, and MingMing, his young Chinese 'minder'
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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