A sample of submitted works of fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter 1 Marseilles — The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from...
The Andaman Express
Called in to investigate an unusual insurance claim, Finlay Nichols discovers something is seriously wrong with Thailand’s offshore gas fields. Propelled into an ultimate stakes...
Tarzan the Untamed
Chapter IMurder and Pillage Hauptmann Fritz Schneider trudged wearily through the somber aisles of the dark forest. Sweat rolled down his bullet head and stood...
She
My Visitor There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seems to be graven on the memory in such fashion that we...
Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was...
Flower Fables
FLOWER FABLES. THE summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth, while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk. Fire-flies hung in...
At the Earth’s Core
PROLOG IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you...
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES – CONTENTSThe Emperor’s New Clothes The Swineherd The Real Princess The Shoes of Fortune The Fir Tree The Snow Queen The Leap-Frog...
A Princess of Mars
CHAPTER I – ON THE ARIZONA HILLS I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly...
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