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An Irish traveller leaves his clan and tries to make it in Dublin.

A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popula

She has everything she needs, everything she ever wanted - why would she risk losing it all?

A reluctant banker tries horn playing as a substitute for his errant girlfriend.

One might think that Santa Claus would have no enemies on all the earth - and for a long time, he didn't ... then the Daemons came along.

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

"What happened when all their illusions were stripped away and revealed for what they truly were?"

A man prepares to propose to a woman he considers hopelessly out of his league.

A philosophical journey for an American travelling by train in India

A man buys the mummified foot of an Egyptian princess as a paperweight but soon finds his dreams disturbed.

"He said follow the beat. Teddy thought, this the beat, isn’t it?"

The only pleasure in the life of a lonely widow is the dismal view from her third floor New York boarding house.