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A mother has great ambitions for her daughter's ice-skating career.
Scary bedtime story about a mother and daughter's night-time journey home.
"What happened when all their illusions were stripped away and revealed for what they truly were?"
Two men at a fishing spot see Joe and Teddy Emmanual and their sister Carrie ...
A man makes a living out of other people's superstitions.
An unpleasant encounter with a local drunkard leads a boy's brothers to act to protect their mother. Contains strong language.
A group of bored Prussian soldiers amuse themselves destructively while holed up in a French chateau.
Touching story in which two immigrants are brought together by a broken lift.
It was eerie sometimes, how a room filled with talking people would quiet up when he spoke. I felt like I was that room full of people then.
His mother once told him a story about how his granddaddy nearly gave her away.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
It was as if she had stepped into another world.
There’s always tomorrow, Oscar said to himself
As I live and breathe, I’ll always love this cabin.
We are there, we are ready...And then we sing.
Ridley believed that human beings were beasts driven by appetite; even artistic creation was a bodily function.
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.
