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The story of Miss Merriam, the lovely, capable cashier at Hinkle's.
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.
The story of an wholly unphilosophical girl and her two suitors.
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.
A New York gentleman desperate for attention from the press enlists the help of a grafter - who learns a valuable lesson about women.
The strange and incredible truth behind the sudden disappearance of Johnny Bellchambers.
A country boy arrives in the city - but is mistaken for a confidence trickster.
A good deed by the recently unemployed coachman Thomas McQuade has strange consequences.
Two low-lives from the west go to New York with plans to relieve the fool inhabitants of their cash.
General Falcon - revolutionary - arrives in New York from Columbia unprepared for both the golden-haired ladies and the silver-tongued con-artists.
A music teacher takes a singing class soon after receiving a terrible letter.
Alternately funny and sad but ultimately heartwarming: a boy's experiences on Christmas Eve illustrate the harsh realities of his life.
A young soldier, assigned as a guard in a prisoner of war camp, has trouble dealing with the horrific conditions.
A young man hangs himself in prison. Public defender Audrey Meyers reflects on the events that led to his death.
The story of the Filipino wife of a misogynistic soldier.
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.
