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The Rasite ship sprawled ten times the size of the little cruiser that Ambros had named Starlight
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
4 Stars
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Even though some Americans like to say, "It's all good," the Chinese know better ...
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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After watching a debate on the perils of a consumerist society, a man turns off his television and heads to a bicycle shop.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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A young man's suspicions are aroused when he finds out his dead mother is appearing to his father, threatening eternal damnation unless the son is disinherited.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
4 Stars
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Two sisters dream of restoring the old family home following the Civil War.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Moving day for Danny and his father.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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Rosie and her Mum have a day at the beach.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted apartment block. Initially amused by the idea, he soon has reason to take it seriously.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
4 Stars
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A tourist couple stray from the beaten track and find themselves out of their depth.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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On two couples' trip to the seaside a long-held wish is finally fulfilled.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
4 Stars
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A man describes the most frightening night of his life.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Horror
4 Stars
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Jonte has spent his whole life in a radiation shelter, but the arrival of eight strangers is the start of an adventure that will change his life forever.
- Length: 20 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Sci-Fi
4 Stars
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The mysterious reappearances of Howard Cosell.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
4 Stars
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Vi and Sam learn about life on the farm.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- 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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