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The narrator captures a rare rabbit-like creature, thought to be extinct for over a century.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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Howling dogs, Hobbits, and bowl cut hair. What the heck is going on in the apartment downstairs?
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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by Saki
Jocantha decides to share her happiness with the less fortunate through a spot of afternoon philanthropy.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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A young employee has an encounter with the company general manager.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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The lives of a tramp and a handsome TV presenter intersect.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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by Saki
Lady Drakmanton comes up with an unorthodox way of dealing with the miserly Misses Smithly-Dubb.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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Waking up on Saturday morning with a hangover having lost his company's biggest account, the narrator takes steps to retain his job. Contains adult language.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
3 Stars
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by Saki
Crefton Lockyer begins to suspect that all is not right in the seemingly peaceful villiage of Mowsle Barton. One word: Witches!
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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by Saki
The residents of the Villa Elsinore lose a baby. Then they find a baby. Then they find another baby.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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Arlington Stringham makes a joke in the Houses of Parliament - but fails to consider the consequences.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
3 Stars
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'I don’t mind saying I’m afraid of the dark a little.'
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
2 Stars
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A man who is familiar with the behavior of ghosts tells the story of a woman who comes across a spectral church service.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
2 Stars
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Revealing the sinister hidden agenda behind the apparently pointless behaviour of a particular type of tiny green insect.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor, Sci-Fi
2 Stars
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A journalist gets a lead on the O.J. murder weapon.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
2 Stars
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A fly-on-the-wall account of a futuristic Citizen Kane's busy daily routine.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
2 Stars
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A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime, Humor
5 Stars
“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.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Humor
5 Stars
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.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
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.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
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.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
"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.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
5 Stars
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