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A family receive a visit from a newly wealthy relation - a man they had previously shunned due to his notorious character flaw.
Rupert becomes increasingly hateful towards his incompetent brother-in-law to be.
A banker is disturbed by visions of a murdered man and his killer. Then he is called for jury duty.
A disillusioned look at life following futher education.
A Venturer - one who does not ask a schedule and map from Fate when he begins a journey. Two venturers challenge eachother.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
A heir has an attack of concience and tries to 'pay back' his capitalist father's ill-gotten gains - but finds it harder than he imagined.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
An avaricious farmer makes arangements to have his dying mother looked after so he can get his crop in.
I wondered if there was a used-teeth store I could recommend to get these guys geared up and ready for caramel apple season?
They were his creation and he cared for them like a father should.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
Lady Prowche has trouble putting together a guest list that will ensure her house party is argument-free.
A witty dinner conversation in which Clovis decides it is time his mother thought about getting married.
A terrible tragedy had overtaken two friends of mine, diving buddies of three years standing, but I was alive.
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
Red meat wasn’t hard, once he put his mind to it. He’d been thinking about it, off and on, since a first-grade field trip to a family farm.
It’s not every day you get an offer like that. In fact, most days, you don’t get an offer at all.
“I’m having a problem with something I did. I mean something I didn’t do but should’ve. And I can’t make it right. It was really bad."
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
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.
