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A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.

Kung fu dubbee and would-be actress, Ally gets one last chance.

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

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...

William's lapse into ingratedom began when he brought me oysters, and I was taken aback by his manner. A girl saw William and nodded three times to him, and William's face grew white as a...

Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, was isolated during his life by his egoism, and died in final impenitence, as do many noble geniuses. Horace...

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...

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

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...

While on a canoe trip down the Danube River, two friends encounter some mysterious, hostile entities.

A drifter describes making, spending and losing a few bucks.

The lord of Valennes had taken a mean wife and hunted tame animals to cover his pleasures, but the widow and her daughter had only bread enough to save them from dying of hunger. One rainy day, the...