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On Sacrifice, Dartboards, and the Night J.D. Salinger Died
...being the bouncer is a lot like being the designated driver at a raging house party...
Ward 6
Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which h
Unfair" death?
Andrew learns the value of spending time with loved ones after his grandfather's death.
The Blue Cross
Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of
A Lost Opportunity
A hen belonging to Ivan Scherbakoff's daughter-in-law started laying eggs and the children frightened it. The neighbor's son and Ivan's wife began to abuse each other. Gavryl's wife went round...
Lu-san, Daughter of Heaven
Lu-san went to bed without any supper, dressed herself, and climbed the ladder leading to the deck to save herself. A tiny soapstone image of the goddess Kwan-yin was found by Lu-san, who hated the...
Pardners
The guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the wrong foot. I was prospectin' a claim on Caribou Creek, and Justus Morrow was watching a dance at the Gold Belt when...
The Army of a Dream Part 2
The great hall was emptying apace as the clocks struck two. Non-commissioned officers grewled and wrote down names, and then ten minutes of the quickest feeding and firing with dummy cartridges was...
The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure
Mr. & Mrs. Lee were going off for the day & left their two children John 10 yrs old & Alice 2 yrs old. The younger Lees went down cellar & began to rummage among the rubbish little...
The Prussian Officer
The Captain was a tall man of about forty, with reddish-brown, stiff hair, and a Prussian aristocrat. He grew madly irritable and harsh and cruelly bullying his young soldier, using contempt and...
Tonelli's Marriage
Tommaso Tonelli was rich but his heart was still young, but he was a fickle lover. Tonelli's life on holidays was varied. She dined with the notary, and her parrot had almost as much freedom as...
A Romance of the Line
A man, half his age and a different-looking person, slipped out of his seat and said to the young man, "I do not know Sir Jarge." The young man's face changed and he was introduced as his cousin...