Inspiration

A man searches for his missing wife Jan after a tragic accident, following clues and hope until a final emotional reunion.

A shop cat faces off with a territorial Yellow Cat, leading to nightly chases and chaos after Yellow Cat claims the shop as its own.

Eira ventures into magical Whispering Woods, meets allies, and battles darkness to save the forest.

A teen buys a gorilla suit, walks around town, and meets a girl he likes.

In the valley of Nis, where the waning moon shines thinly, evil vines and creeping plants crawl amidst the stones of ruined palaces, and little apes leap from gigantic trees in crumbling...

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...

Mosaku and Minokichi were on their way home when a great snowstorm overtook them. They fastened the door to the ferryman's hut, and lay down to rest, but a woman in white blew her breath on...

Boffer Bings was born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life, but frequently had to carry away the debris of my mother's work in the studio, and his father's business of making...

Coulter's Notch was a depression in a hill, commanded by two batteries, but masked by an orchard. Three or four dead horses lay there. The general and colonel had ridden into the notch to see the...

The story came to me from a woman met on a train. The woman had a heavy face and a thick nose, and made me feel the war, and told me the tale that I want to tell you. A German man of fifty with a...

Alexander Ivanovich Volgin, a bachelor and a clerk in a Moscow bank, was staying in a country-house. He smoked a cigarette, talked to the student and the secretary about the weather, and went out...

Emily Johnson came home one evening to find three of her best handkerchiefs missing from the dresser drawer. She decided to complain to the landlady after her dinner and tapped softly on the door...

In the fall in Milan, it was cold and the dark came very early. The electric lights came on, and we were all at the hospital every afternoon, and we met every day and were all very polite and...

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...

I have eleven sons, the first is unsightly but serious and clever, the second is beautiful, slim, well-built, and is clever but also experienced in the world, and the third son is beautiful but...

Some say the word Odradek comes from Slavic, while others believe it is from German. Neither interpretation is applicable, because one cannot find a meaning of the word with either. A flat,...

Gregor Samsa woke up from troubled dreams one morning and kept rocking back on his back. He felt quite well, apart from a really superfluous sleepiness, and was even very hungry. The chief clerk...

The pineapples arrived six or twelve at a time. Jane wondered why she hadn't thought to group them that way in her mind, and Culver agreed. The pineapple problem started when Jane said that they...

Three robbers overcome ten traders - until the traders start talking to each other.

A vivid memory of an incident from the life of an orphanage child.