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Timmy Hutchinson gets lost near a mysterious tree, leading to village-wide panic and discovery of a magical realm.

In a sequestered district of the county of Limerick, there stood my early life, some forty years ago, a strong stone building, half castle, half farm-house. O'Mara turned upon Dwyer and gazed upon...

A Buddy Holly tribute band hits trouble when the County Fair pitches its tents.

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

King Charles the Eighth hired foreign gentlemen to ornament the castle of Amboise, including an Italian named Angelo Cappara, who would throw himself at her feet and kiss, fondle, caress, bite. One...

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

The difference between a good and a bad economist is whether they take account of the visible effect. A member of the assembly proposes to disband a hundred thousand men, but the assembly maintains...

I wept more bitterly, because my father had never seemed to love, and I learned that my sister was dead. When I reached the age of sixteen, my mother's plans began to develop, and we moved to...

President Hamilear Poussevain withdrew the Wilmot Electric Light concession, surrounded the power-house with his barefooted army, and fired Billy. Billy left the Cafe Ducrot and made his way to the...

The Lord of Montcontour, a brave soldier of Tours, put his other son in a monastery, but decided to give his second son in marriage to a maiden. The old lady Virtue, long time a widow, lived...

Captain Jim burst into the little stream, and we yielded to his cheap fascination, accepting his extraordinary discoveries as "ignus fatuus rock" and "splendiferous drift". One day Lacy Bassett...

The four men on Zip Coon Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work, when one of them ran off to meet the advancing horseman and hand a brown envelope to their messenger. Jackson...