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by James Ross

'The only thing I ever got off my old man was a birthday card when I was ten.'

- Length: 5 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 142 Comments

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Cusp

by Christopher Whitby

Ideas. That was what it was all about and all it was about

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

Strangers

by E.B. Axelrod

"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 3 Comments

Notes on Preserving Beech Leaves, 2001-2003

by George Sandison

I am looking at something I thought mine alone...a beech leaf, brittle and brown now.

- Length: 10 pages

- Age Rating: PG

The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 130 Comments

Licence

by Bashir Sakhawarz

Your thoughts trek to all the points of the compass, but still that twist eludes you

- Length: 3 pages

- Age Rating: 15

The Vandals are Coming!

by Alison Cooper

Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker next door were targeted the following weekend...

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: U

- 3 Comments

Leaving Bill

by Gaynor Hill

Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.

- Length: 6 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 3 Comments

Saving Lives

by Martin Westlake

Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night

- Length: 11 pages

- Age Rating: 15

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The Lady Or The Tiger?

by Frank Stockton

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

- 1166 Comments

Red, Yellow and Purple

by Andrea Smith

But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy

- Length: 8 pages

- Age Rating: PG

- 2 Comments

Snowflakes

by Louisa Campbell

It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home