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Alone on his seventy-sixth birthday, Jim Brennen remembers the love of his life.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Romance
5 Stars
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Jim and Ray are best friends - until Jim moves in with the Flocktons and starts acting like a tosser. But a camping trip reveals a few truths.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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Two childhood friends find themselves part of the D-Day landings during the second world war.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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A perfectly simple time travel experiment is made increasingly complex by the involvement of the inventor's other half.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor, Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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A man is told by a palm reader that he will commit a murder. A satirical crime story that cleverly reverses the conventions of the genre.
- Length: 33 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime, Humor
5 Stars
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Ella had always admired the work of Robert Trewe, but when she finds herself sub-letting his appartment, her love of the poems starts to become a love of the poet.
- Length: 27 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Romance
5 Stars
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A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction, Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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A vivid memory of an incident from the life of an orphanage child.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Non-Fict
5 Stars
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The adventures of a tiny girl who is found inside the petals of a Tulip.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
5 Stars
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When a woodcutter boasts to a king that his daughter can spin gold from straw, she is forced to make a pact with a strange little man.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
- Genre: Children
5 Stars
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Clovis is sceptical that the Baroness' hunting story will be as unusual as promised.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
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Revealing the dangers of giving previously dumb animals the power of speech. Especially cats.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor, Sci-Fi
5 Stars
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A boy defies his hated guardian through the worship of a great ferret who lives in the tool-shed.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
5 Stars
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The truth behind the celebrated war hero _____ (name withheld).
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
5 Stars
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As if there weren’t enough problems on his plate, Mondriel had to go and stumble upon the biggest secret ever, didn’t he? The kind of secret that would turn the natural order of things on its head if it was leaked to a wider public.
- Length: 9 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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