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A resting model finds her privacy invaded by a young man and a very particular piece of poetry.
Lady Bastable is - quite rightly - reluctant to look after young Clovis for a week.
A visit on an old school friend finds a man plagued both by bad health and a gentle tapping from beyond his wall.....
When an American minister buys Canterville Chase, a long term resident's life (or death) is thrown into turmoil.
A long way overhead a jet soared, like a gull on currents of air.
For seven years, dead girls came to my office.
Alcoholics, drug addicts, and even cheaters manage to get away, Ian thought. So, why can't I?
If you’re going to spend a lot of time with a woman before you put her behind bars, she might as well be a looker.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
"Right," said Julia, all of a sudden, "You're on your own now..."
For stories feed on stories...
Very short story.
A man becomes lost on a moor in heavy snow and is rescued by a strange, reclusive academic.
On a summer evening in August, Laura sat cross-legged on the concrete floor of the teepee-shaped rec center. The air was heavy and warm inside.
- Length: 1 page
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
It’s a dirty job, but Jodie’s father does it well and happily. This story brings Take Your Daughter to Work Day to a different level, but it all ends up down in the dumps.
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.
