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A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose.
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
4 Stars
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A woman tells of a particularly stressful experience involving a visiting bishop, a flood and a hungry leopard.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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Fairy tale about a little fir tree that wants to grow up.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
4 Stars
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by Saki
Boredom leads a rector into temptation following his move to a country parish.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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Humorous parable about a king who unwisely seeks advice from his subjects on a tough engineering problem.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Humor
4 Stars
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A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.
- Length: 38 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
4 Stars
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On a wet and windy night, three strangers turn up at a young girl's christening party.
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A portrait of a widow and her lovers. Contains adult material.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A family with an unusual method of transporting large quantities of money cause problems for a young man holidaying in Italy.
- Length: 31 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Modern fable about a physician who sells a miraculous yellow paint.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A tale set in a fairground that will strike a chord with anyone who has siblings.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A reluctant banker tries horn playing as a substitute for his errant girlfriend.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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A sad, gentle tale of memories and a magic moneybox.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A soldier encounters a beautiful girl.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A man finds his life increasingly intertwined with those of his wife's previous two husbands.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
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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