Samuel stopped and shook his head at the night sky as though it knew the secret he was about to reveal. "There are magical places that exist in this world, Jessica, places the Master Architect created to balance good and evil. The time will come when you will leave this house and enter into another life that awaits you. A life you deserve with a greater purpose. You don't know how special you really are."For years, Jessica has fought for her father's life by agreeing to every littl...

Nate and Stacey love their great grandmother, but lately all they've done is worry about her health. Stacey decides a story is what her Nana needs to pep up her spirits.Stacey sees an old tattered book on top of the bookcase. "This should be interesting. I don't think you've read this story in ages. I barely remember it."Stacey begins to reads but her great grandmother takes over the story and the two siblings listen. Just before the old woman finishes the story she falls a...

A young, clumsy, and inexperienced apprentice is about to have the fate of the future shoved into his hands.

Kari is sure of two things: Her husband's infidelity and her loss in recalling the events that led up to it. With no where else to go, she stands on a corner across from her house, watching. An attractive young man shows up and offers Kari a solution to her situation. Although she's reluctant at first, the tingling sensation of his touch changes her mind. He takes her to an old house and tries to convince her to buy it. Kari worries about the amount of work required to fix up the decaying ...

Short story. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. He was born in Albany, New York. ... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coast town now known as Arcata, then just a mining camp on Humboldt Bay. His first literar...

No author is more associated with Christmas-time than Charles Dickens.Collected here are six of his festive short stories to get you in the holiday spirit:• A Christmas Tree• What Christmas Is As We Grow Older• The Poor Relation's Story• The Child's Story• The Schoolboy's Story• Nobody's Story

Washington Irvingâs classic tale of romantic schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman. Authorâs vivid imagery involving the wild supernatural pursuit by the Headless Horseman has sustained interest in this popular folktale through many printed editions, as well as film, stage, and musical adaptations.

"The Silent Artist & Other Short Stories" features six short stories of various genres. In this collection there is something for everyone - you might laugh, you might shed a tear, you might even cling to your seat. Short stories include: The Silent Artist, Jessica's Hand, Sir Caesar: Collector of Over-Imaginative Souls, and more.

What starts out as an enjoyable father-son outing turns into something entirely different in this thrilling tale from action-adventure master H. Rider Haggard. When famed explorer Allan Quatermain tries to teach his son a few life lessons on safari, he gets much more than he bargained for. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly...

Beau had never given much thought to idea of dying let alone what might happen when he did. He was a confident eighteen year old and pretty convinced the grim reaper wasn't out to get him soon. But when Beau and his best friend Edgar found themselves at Heaven's door one summer night, he was quickly forced to accept two truths. There is most definitely life after death and you don't necessarily escape what you've avoided on Earth...They are faced with a stark choice and for Edgar th...

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted.[Background]A...

This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited them with a more modern format, including punctuation and styling, to make them more accessible to a reader in this e-book format. In addition, Chinese personal and place names have been rendered into modern pinyin.