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Dan was a space cat and got a lot of mail. He liked being a cat and liked being a boy.

Shorthouse persuaded me to lend him my company after a sudden change in my attitude. One of the stablemen saw a dark substance hanging down from one of the rafters and raised his face from the gun...

He documented his facial expressions, traced pathways with his finger, mimed the resulting sequences, and waited for something to fill the blank spaces behind.

The five girls and the refined, virtuous Madame of a Normandy brothel shut up shop in order to attend a confirmation.

The Monk Amador was obnoxious to Louis the Eleventh because he was a pilferer, a loiterer, and a bad soldier of the ecclesiastical militia. The lady of Cande reprimanded him for being a Christian...

Dear stupid forest. Dear patently retarded forest. Dear beautiful ugly stupid forest full of nightingales why won’t you shut up. What do you want from me. A train is too expensive. A clerk will...

Two sisters readjust their lives following the death of their father.

He ate an orange, slowly spitting out the seeds, and sat down upon the stove, feeling good. Mascart had knocked Danny Frush cuckoo in the second round, twenty-one feet of snow had fallen in...

Champneys Carter had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. Dolly Ingram fell deeply in love with Champneys Carter and he with her, but Carter left him without speaking, and Dolly...

One of my friends is a blithesome troubadour, but prefers with the expanding spring to lay aside his grimy basket. A little old Genoese lady comes to sell us pins, needles, thread, tape, and the...

We can’t be other than we are and we are hungry for some fruit...

A man who wrote in code was killed and left in a bathtub. He was found by mistake. Soon a story surfaced about a man who thought in code. His body was found in a bathtub some weeks later. A man who...