Inspiration

A mother's tough love and discipline shape her child into a grateful adult.

A long married woman describes her relationship with her husband, and how she has lived with and learned to accept his salty mistress.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Slaves in the South face cruelty and separation from their families, while Eliza and George escape to freedom in Canada.

Explores the complexities of human nature, seasoned with irony and insight.

The children pressed to each other, dreaming of gold, yellow crayons and coins large enough to buy the world, but awoke to the tatting drum. Margot stood alone in the rain, staring at the...

A lonely moor, a wild streamlet, a lifeless landscape, a stag drinking from the stream, a mountain zone, and one star light the unclouded skies in the north.

The inevitable bowl appeared, and the man fretted for his mate, praising John's courage, sobriety, self-denial, and unfailing kindliness of heart. The next night he glanced at John, who won't last...

In war, animals succumb in much the same manner as humans, and Bishop Stanley has given us a valuable Familiar History of Birds. After the explosion of a munition factory near Milan, Italy, I first...

Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams and found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He threw off the covers and swung himself out of the bed with all his force. Gregor was still...

Five years separate me from monkeyism, a time accompanied at times by excellent people, advice, applause and orchestral music, but basically alone. I got two shots in the cheek and woke up in a...

The horse was missing, and the maid was running around the village to borrow a horse. A man huddled in the low shed showed his open, blue-eyed face, and embraced the willing girl. I am not a...

Nai Mark returns to Phra Khanong forty years after he left home screaming, and finds the house he shared with Nang Nark boarded up and listing to one side. He steps inside and kisses Nang Nark...

Zeno is keening for shore, under full sail, cutting through the water, leaning in: the boat makes no headway. He photographs the sun, and if he ever puts in, he will storyboard its...

After my father died, I went to his house for the first time. It was a network of trails through sprung organizations, and everything was covered in dust. When I arrived, my siblings lined up along...

This tree has a small LED display and it can show you words and pictures and it can melt from one choice to another, but it can't see you and it starts to cry.

Wasn’t overcoming this feeling of fear what truly distinguished the brave?

They were his creation and he cared for them like a father should.

A magistrate is visited by a doctor who hides a dark secret behind his penetrating pale blue eyes.

A conversation about an unusual discovery.

A married couple return to the groom's home town to start their life together - but his position as town marshal complicates matters.