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My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
“I heard there’s a Laok in town! Where is he?”
Velmar had just raised a frothing mug to his lips when the Dwarf entered. To a novice Laok, such words might’ve caused concern.
Just before his death, Adrian Borlsover develops the power of automatic writing, which creates some unexpected issues for one of his heirs.
A soldier risks his life to uncover the secret of twelve beautiful princesses.
A bedraggled writer corners the editor of a respected publication and demands to know why his story has been rejected.
Not even fame can protect you when the world goes wrong.
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way.
After his life-long friend goes missing near the legendary river Strid, Weigall sets out to look for him.
A man buys the mummified foot of an Egyptian princess as a paperweight but soon finds his dreams disturbed.
A day in the life of the inhabitants of Crescent Bay.
Two sisters readjust their lives following the death of their father.
A man waits for his wife to disembark the ship she has returned on after ten months in Europe.
Virtually unprompted, Ellen - the lady's maid - reveals her history, habits and beliefs to a tired visitor.
A subtle depiction of a couple's relationship as they sit out on the veranda.
European-flavoured tale of the mysterious, rotund Gudrun Schmidt von Feldenstein and her Mexican winters. Contains adult material.
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.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
