Archive for August, 2007
Posted on August 31, 2007. Filed under: Mark Twain |
by MARK TWAIN
CHAPTER I“You told a LIE?”
“You confess it–you actually confess it–you told a lie!”
CHAPTER II
The family consisted of four persons: Margaret Lester, widow, aged thirty six; Helen Lester, her daughter, aged sixteen; Mrs. Lester’s maiden aunts, Hannah and Hester Gray, twins, aged sixty-seven. Waking and sleeping, the three women spent their days and night [...]
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Posted on August 21, 2007. Filed under: Mark Twain, Short Stories |
by Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Word Count: 2623
I found that a person of large intelligence could read this beautiful language with considerable facility without a dictionary, but I presently found that to such a parson a grammar could be of use at times. It is because, if he does not know the were’s and the was’s and [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2007. Filed under: Edith Wharton, Short Stories |
by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) I“Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never know it.”
The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2007. Filed under: Anonymous |
Once upon a time, and far, far away, lived a beautiful Queen with voluptuous breasts. Nick the Dragon Slayer knew that the penalty for his desire would be death should he try to touch them.
One day Nick revealed his secret desire to his colleague, Horatio the Physician, who was the King’s chief doctor. Horatio the [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2007. Filed under: Anonymous, Fantasy, Romance, Short Stories |
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My friend Tom called to say that he has some military business to take care of in a town south of us and wanted to know if he could stop on the way and spend the night before heading to his meeting. I had always known that my wife thought Tom to be great [...]
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