Contents The Premature Burial The Oblong Box Mystification The Sphinx The Spectacles The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether The Premature Burial THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes
AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE. IT is with humility really unassumed—it is with a sentiment even of awe— that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am
Dogs are not our whole life but they make lives whole. ~ Roger Caras. My greyhound dog, Wolf, greeted me with her usual ‘wolf smile’ and happy dance around me when I came home from church one evening. Large, fast swags of
“It’s so good to have you home, Beth!” Sheryl cooed as they walked through the front doors of the house Beth had grown up in. “I was so worried you’d never wake from your coma, and the doctors didn’t have any idea
They already took my left arm and I guess my right’s going next. Every eyeball I see drips with pity. They know that it’s not stopping there. Pity and shame, guilt – cursing themselves for calling it like they see it. Calling
Every Sunday morning I take a light jog around a park near my home. There’s a lake located in one corner of the park. Each time I jog by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the water’s edge
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live
The giant teddy bear chases after Mash and Bran. It will stop at nothing to catch them. They run round trees, while it runs through them. Breaking them apart. It stops and picks up one of the huge trees then throws it
Before beginning the Rich Habits Training Program it is necessary to dispel a common myth about financial success with regard to luck. Many unsuccessful people rationalize that they don’t have “good luck” or just aren’t “lucky.” They argue that in order to
Tears flowed down his cheeks as he dropped a red rose on to the casket below. His was the last rose. With that final act, the crowd of mourners began to disburse and the accountant was now alone with his three young
Herb Riser was in a state of shock. He had just gotten off the phone with his banker and it seemed as if all hope of extending his dealership’s floor plan financing had run out. The bank advised him that they were
“What am I going to do with her?” John Andrews, CEO of Sunblade, Inc., a distributor of saw blades in northern New Jersey, had just been informed by his office manager Nina, that Dee had called in for the third time this
“I just can’t take it anymore,” Phoenix Upman murmured into his half-empty pint glass. He ran his short, plump fingers through what little hair was left on his head as his cigarette burned out in the ashtray beside him. Bad day?” the