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Is Barry hallucinating again?
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A tutor is given an artichoke plant and soon learns that taking care of it is not going to be easy.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Horror, Humor
4 Stars
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Hasta returns to blockaded Nepal, with money in his pockets and two missions to accomplish
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A visit to an old friend takes an unexpected turn.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A man has to make a difficult decision.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Three very different lives intersect.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her weekly cycle trips down a usually deserted road.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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A young Lady employs Holmes to negotiate with London's most notorious blackmailer.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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A man seeks Holmes' advice when his wife's odd behaviour leads him to suspect she is hiding a terrible secret.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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A man takes up an offer to stay with a charming but ferocious baron - who promises some unusual hunting near his cold Carpathian home.
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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An atmospheric recollection of a riverside encounter.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
4 Stars
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Morality tale based on an elderly uncle's promise of his fortune to a thrifty couple.
- Length: 32 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A confrontation between an imaginative nine year old girl and an agressive young boy.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A boy secretly looks after a kitten after saving it from being drowned.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
4 Stars
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A make-up artist has a revealing temporary job.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Romance
4 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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