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The last place I locked wheels with Mike Butters was in Idaho, and we bedded down a savage Injun in Mike's dental stable. I pedaled a sewing machine while Mike dug into that Injun's hangin' wall...

A very short story about the social mask we wear and how we can stick to it.

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...

A visit to an old friend takes an unexpected turn.

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

The misadventures of a group of reluctant soldiers during the American civil war - in many ways, this story anticipates Catch 22.

When you split infinity you just get more infinity. For a man with tinnitus the sound does not end, but infinity can split up from her real parts.

Dick Boyle approached the waiting stage coach, but the young lady was already walking towards it. Miss Julia Cantire was getting down from the coach, and Dick Boyle quietly slipped from the back to...

Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which h

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...

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...

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...