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While on a voyage to a remote archipelago, the narrator is overcome by a premonition of evil. But the ship's captain pays no attention.
Goodman Brown keeps a midnight appointment in the woods near Salem Village.
Adventure story following the circumstances surrounding the escape of a notorious prisoner from his Bermudan jail.
The first thing any physicist learns about traveling faster than light is that it is impossible.
As I turned the page the edge cut my finger
Simon cried and cried, but the textbooks say you’ve got to let them.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
That first night in the Lodge, I had the strangest dream, though I didn’t seem to be asleep. A weight was pinning me down, as if a creature were crouching on my chest.
There was always news, Antonio thought, as the announcer’s name started to boom out, and he was glad for that.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
On the morning of the Naming Day, I am up early.
The target, the target. I had little to go on.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
Your thoughts trek to all the points of the compass, but still that twist eludes you
Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
There was something satisfying about spreading the grass evenly...
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Genre: Fiction
When he was only six years old his mother sent him to the mosque to learn the Quran
The tree stood at ten, maybe twelve feet tall, but as far as the boy was concerned, it might as well have reached the grainy, spring sky.
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.
