Inspiration

Sometimes you have to take a chance on romance.

Cincinnatus, a wise and just man, is called upon to save Rome from a tribe of fierce men. He leads the Roman army to victory and then returns to his farm.

None The moon shone down on the old garden where I wandered, and I saw unwonted ripples tipped with yellow light as the shallow crystal stream was drawn on in resistless currents to strange oceans...

Hemlock Jones was musing before the fire and said that he had given up cigar smoking. I cast a cursory glance over his shelves and turned upon him rather sharply, he shuffled out again and closed...

When I was little girl, I had a slice of dry bread and an apple for New Year's breakfast. As we came down to breakfast that morning, we found father alone in the dining-room. Mamma came in, looking...

God made men so they had no need to work, but after some time they quarrelled with one another and cursed life, so God made it impossible for people to live without working. This brought them...

A peasant named Ivan Scherbakoff had three sons, and his next-door neighbor's son had three horses. One day a hen flew over the fence and laid an egg in the neighbor's garden, and the women began...

Josef K. dreamed that he was walking through the cemetery when he suddenly saw a burial mound next to him on the path. He jumped into the grass but staggered and fell on his knee just in front of...

The Emperor sent a message to you, his pathetic subject, directly from his deathbed. He ordered his herald to kneel down beside his death bed and whisper the message to him, then confirmed its...

We're both on roller skates and I don't remember where we got them from, but we're good despite not having done this since '92. I crouch onto the curb to watch you skate and shout about how surreal...

Abe Consuelos places his false teeth in a glass on the sink and soaks them with baking soda and water. He doesn't fall for any of that nonsense. After his morning stretches, Abe goes to the...

Raphael came to live with us, and seemed like all the others, an ordinary-looking teen from a nearby village. My parents had a brusque manner and drank Mateus rosé. I worried about not being quick...

"That tree," he says. "It's looking at me."

The story of young prince, brought up as a goatherd, who becomes king on the death of his father and develops a deep fascination with the be

The statue of a Prince asks a sparrow to help solve sad people in his city.

Two kidnappers fail to heed the old adage - never work with children.

Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.

An absent-minded old lady forgets where she left her niece.

Witty and insightful tale of a memorable day in the life of a determined child.

A small girl and a small boy were riding in a carriage. The smaller girl began to recite a story about a little girl who was good and was saved from a mad bull. A little girl called Bertha was...