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The Assistant is lost again in a grid city, feeling disconnected from the world. The sound has been switched off. She likes being an assistant. She admires her employers for their belief in...

With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.

Path is a room from remembering with windows around its perimeter, a table, red wine, cutlery, couscous, partially chewed red meat, salad dressed with indifference, a silent film grand piano...

A young woman is forced to reveal the terrible sin she has committed.

Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but Daddy Folsom read a letter to Ricketts and laughed hysterically. Daddy Folsom returned to Lasham's cabin to relieve the watcher,...

Rulledge said that it's easy to see what Wanhope does his high thinking on, and continued smoking his cigar. Minver ran after him, and Rulledge felt like another boy. Ormond saw the figure of Death...

Stephen Masterton was dragged from the tent of the Tasajara camp meeting and placed in a dilapidated adobe house. There he kept loyal faith with his physician and gave himself up to simple walks...

Jim Shorthouse was stranded high and dry in a large American city, and he went to find living quarters. One night he came home tired after a long day's work, and heard someone unlock his door and...

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...

Keisha and Anne debate whether power from money or respect is more important.

The habitually quiet, ascetic face of Seth Rivers was somewhat disturbed when Mrs. Rivers refused to let him keep even his negro servant with him. The unconscious object of this criticism and...

After accepting a post as a music teacher at a country house, a woman begins to worry when she is followed by a mysterious stranger on her w