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Creatures That Once Were Men
Aristid Kuvalda had a two-storied house at the end of the main street, where the captain passed most of his time sitting on a kind of bench or else in the eating-house of Egor Yavilovitch. The...
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, a venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof, and a painting represented a cat playing rackets. The young man had his peculiarities, including white...
The Terror of the Beautiful Is Our Terror Too
We can’t be other than we are and we are hungry for some fruit...
The Continence Of King Francis The First
King Francis was taken to Madrid by Emperor Charles V and kept there until Queen Marguerite was sent to him. Adrian VI found himself harder pressed by unsatisfied desire than he had ever been...
The mouse is still in her house
A very short story about loneliness and coming out of a relationship.
Music
WILD cat was listening to the melody of distant hounds tracking a remote fox. She shinned up a tree as the dogs burst into view below her and stifled their songs upon the body of their victim...
The Scourge
Captain and Big George stumbled onto the little camp in the early winter and ate three meals and more daily of bacon, beans, and baking-powder bread. As the two maintained their practice, the camp...
The Cub Reporter
Paul Anderson chartered a furnished room for a week, and made his usual round of calls. He arose early on Monday morning to avoid his landlady. When he finally reached The Intelligencer...
The Little Glass Bottle
A captain of a small cat boat noticed something floating to the leeward and reached out his hand for it. Inside was a piece of paper that read: "I am John Jones who writes this letter my ship is...
The Daughter Of The Storage
When they spent the winter in Paris planning for the summer in America, the boy pulled out Tata's trunk first and piled the things in it next to her trunk. Forsyth said that his little girl mustn't...
Chronicles Of Zefaria: The Plight Of The Free Peoples
Tonomoli, a young warrior, joins a council to fight Osmadaan's invasion, facing battles and alliances in a fantasy world.
The Indian Wars And Wayne's Victory
The Indians, who had been so well generaled and fought so ably, failed to follow up their victory by moving on the American settlements in force. The battle of Fallen Timbers was fought on the 20th...