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Taken from "Or else the lightning god" by Catherine Lim.... Ah Bah's money, in two one-dollar notes and an assortment of coins, lay in...

Grace Stone Coates Wild Plums 1929, The Frontier I knew about wild plums twice before I tasted any. The first time was when the Sunday...

Katherine Anne Porter Theft She had the purse in her hand when she came in. Standing in the middle of the floor, holding her bathrobe...

Exquisite and Lovely, like a human jewel, dwelt the rosy little bride in the house of the blue salon. This diminutive apartment was hung...

Nightclub patrons, don’t trust the band! You arrive there, in a good mood, well dressed, the right cologne, and happy with life because...

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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz The Dead Man’s Return THEY often take a long time to come back to us. They have their whims. A man in a boat some...

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A HOUSEFLY had been circling for the last few minutes in the bus, though the windows were closed. An odd sight here, it had been silently...

Alexei Panshin Translated from the Russian original Sons of Prometheus So you have the knowledge of Life and Death. And what can you do...

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Joan Ellis The Third Street They walked together into a world of exotic evil The Third Street by Joan Ellis This was where they came…the...

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Martha Gellhorn Miami—New York FROM The Atlantic Monthly, 1948 THERE WERE FIVE Air Force sergeants and they got in the plan and found...

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Princess Metchersky A Race on the Neva It was the morning of Epiphany. The intense cold of the preceding night had moderated, but the...

Borisav Stanković Christmas Comes, After All! Translated by Ernst Pawel Who would worry about sleeping at a time like this? It has been...