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Today's Story
Ideas. That was what it was all about and all it was about
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
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Thursday
It was then, as he was just about to bring his hands flutteringly down, that the most extraordinary smell assailed my nostrils
Wednesday
When Helen decides to buy a computer, she finds herself with a new acquaintance, Arsenius Jackson.
Tuesday
A disturbing portrait of a man consumed by grief. Contains descriptions of violence.
Monday
Hughie Erskine is good-looking but penniless and needs ten thousand pounds to wed the love of his life. Then he drops in on a painter friend......
Sunday
A young soldier, assigned as a guard in a prisoner of war camp, has trouble dealing with the horrific conditions.
Saturday
"You grow memory like a crop, and when you want to, you harvest it."
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
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.
Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
You have to play the cards you're dealt
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
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- Drake Vaughn
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