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Medina navigates her morning routine, reminisces about her marriage, and deals with household issues like cockroaches and financial stress.

A foolish boy takes a chance on impressing a Princess and wins her love.

I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. Our fireplaces are on opposite sides, but our flue is separate throughout. The main reason of this style of chimney building is...

The A.B.C. controls the Planet and was informed that the District of Northern Illinois had cut itself out of all systems and would remain disconnected. De Forest glanced at the map as we flew over...

James Burne Worson, a shoemaker who lived in Leamington, Warwickshire, England, undertook a run all the way to Coventry and back for a stake of one sovereign. He went on very well, at an easy gait,...

A Maine regiment passed through Boston in the third year of the late war, and Tom and I promised to tell Joe's mother how finely the regiment went off. Joe Collins proved himself a good soldier by...

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...

I had to enter the service of a Petersburg official called Orlov, who was still out of humour. Zinaida Fyodorovna Krasnovsky hated me from the first day. Zinaida Fyodorovna came into the hall and...

The military came together on paper under glass to shine on me!

The Monk Amador was obnoxious to Louis the Eleventh because he was a pilferer, a loiterer, and a bad soldier of the ecclesiastical militia. The lady of Cande reprimanded him for being a Christian...

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

Dr. Ashton, a wealthy man and childless, sat in his study, looking expectant. He had adopted the orphan son of his wife's sister. A fox stole Mrs. Ashton's most prized black cockerel, and the next...