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He documented his facial expressions, traced pathways with his finger, mimed the resulting sequences, and waited for something to fill the blank spaces behind.

Matt first met Rourke when he was laying the foundation for a small dynamo in the engine-room of the repair shop at Spike. Rourke was the foreman-mason for minor tasks for all that part of the...

What do an horrific dream and the name 'Catharine Larue' have to do with a man found dead in the hills around the Nappa Valley?

A wise master told the tenants of a meadow not to mow the weed, but they did not heed the advice and the meadow grew more and more infested. He says we ought not to mow the meadow, but they say we...

A man who wrote in code was killed and left in a bathtub. He was found by mistake. Soon a story surfaced about a man who thought in code. His body was found in a bathtub some weeks later. A man who...

The misadventures of a group of reluctant soldiers during the American civil war - in many ways, this story anticipates Catch 22.

A Princess is turned into a monkey called Babiole by a wicked fairy's spell.

Adrian and friends join Merridions to defend Earth from Aelkighted invasion, gaining powers through DNA manipulation.

The papa had told the story so often that the children knew just what to expect the moment he began. One of the little pumpkin seeds wanted to grow into the biggest pumpkin ever. The farmer was...

When the head of the king popped off the royal body, the lackey thought about historical necessity. That was the first sentence. Because of it, the story ground to a halt. The famous writer...

The Monk Amador was obnoxious to Louis the Eleventh because he was a pilferer, a loiterer, and a bad soldier of the ecclesiastical militia. The lady of Cande reprimanded him for being a Christian...

...being the bouncer is a lot like being the designated driver at a raging house party...