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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...

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...

Hewson was confronted with an apparition and dramatized the scene at breakfast. He got hardily back into bed and waited for the repetition. Hewson came up to the cottage and perceived a...

Now that you're gone, I cry until I am too numbed to feel. I think about you constantly and miss you.

Adrian and friends join Merridions to defend Earth from Aelkighted invasion, gaining powers through DNA manipulation.

Jim Shorthouse's private secretaryship was never clear to me. Mr. Jonas B. Sidebotham watched him narrowly and struck a match. The two men talked in low voices for another hour, and then the silent...

A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.

My going to Valencia was entirely an accident, and I revisited Valencia on some mysterious and secret mission. A young man, hungrily listening to my words, demanded to know why the ship rolled and...

A couple are in agreement on the ethics of marriage but personal feelings, inevitably, intrude.

A very short story about nostalgia, homesickness and coming to yourself.

Whiston lay still and looked at his wife, who scrambled her hair before the mirror. He sobered down to navy blue, but she tripped beside him. Elsie blushed and laughed, went to the arms of Sam...

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