There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
Indian summer is like a woman.
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.
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...
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.
I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
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.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
I've begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.
They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.
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...
How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
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