If you're going to read this, don't bother.
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as me...
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
I've begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.
It was a pleasure to burn.
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
Indian summer is like a woman.
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of whic...
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky-...
I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
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