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Elisabeth Hamilton: Loafed

Elisabeth Hamilton Loafed We’ve got a bag of Wonder Bread in the backseat. It’s hot in the car with the vents blasting and I keep turning...

Mary Cholmodeley: The Understudy

Mary Cholmodeley The Understudy The only form of human love that atrophies the heart is the love of self. Marion Wright sat in the centre...

Mary Cholmodeley: Saint Luke's Summer

Mary Cholmodeley Saint Luke’s Summer https://coletteofdakota.wixsite.com/daphnecolette/post/mary-cholmodeley-saint-luke-s-summer IN TWO...

A Girl's Story by David Arnason

YOU’VE WONDERED what it would like to be a character in a story, to sort of slip out of your ordinary self and into some other character....

A STEP TOWARDS GOMORRAH -- by Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann A Step Towards Gomorrah The last guests had left. Only the girl in the black sweater and red skirt was still sitting...

A SIGN IN SPACE -- by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino A Sign in Space Situated in the external zone of the Milky Way, the Sun takes about two hundred million years to make a...

THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE BARON AND HIS WIFE

Witold Gombrowicz The Tragic Tale of the Baron and His Wife The Baroness was a charming creature. The Baron had taken her from a family...

ESSE -- by Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz Esse I looked at that face, dumbfounded. The lights of métro stations flew by; I didn’t notice them. What can be done, if...

PARTY PLANNER -- by Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Party Planner To: All Employees of the New York Journal Fr: Charity Webber <charity.webber@thenyjournal.com> Re: Company...

DEVELOPMENTAL BLAH BLAH -- by Natalie Serber

Natalie Serber Developmental Blah Blah Mini cupcakes—iced, sprinkled, and dressed in ruffled paper wrappers—lined the pastry case like a...

YOUNG TITANS--- by NESCIO

Nescio Young Titans (The Netherlands, 1918) Translated into English by DAMION SEARLS I WE WERE kids—but good kids. If I may say so...

THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS-- by STEPHEN KING

Stephen King The Man Who Loved Flowers On an early evening in May of 1963, a young man with his hand in his pocket walked briskly up New...

THE SPRINGS OF AFFECTION---- by MAEVE BRENNAN

Delia Bagot died suddenly and quietly, alone in her bed, with the door shut, and six years later, after eight months of being bedridden,...

China Miéville: Details

Taken from https://idoc.pub/documents/idocpub-pon21x5jyj40 at 08:50 on 10 July 2022. Uploaded by: Diego Antolini December 2019 Words:...

O. Henry: The Last Leaf

THE LAST LEAF In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called...

Through the Tunnel

Doris Lessing Through the Tunnel Going to the shore on the first morning of the vacation, the young English boy stopped at a turning of...

The Parrot and Descartes by Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville The Parrot and Descartes I had better tell you about the parrot. In the Orinoco region, it is said, everything began...

Mark Twain

RIP VAN WINKLE A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is...

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY By Mark Twain (1835-1910) [From The Saturday Press, Nov. 18, 1865. Republished in The...

The President's Exile by Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville The President’s Exile The president walked up the steps to the entrance of the London School of Economics where he had...

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