A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The readership the story was written for.
Lost in a winter city, a carpenter’s dog is rescued by a circus clown who sees in her the makings of a performer.
A young man forbidden to risk his finest clothes chooses one moonlit night to wear them freely and embrace the world beyond his home.
Babette may visit her cousins when the figs ripen, and she watches the trees each day.
From Paradise, the Buddha offers a single spider’s thread to a robber suffering at the bottom of Hell.
A gangly schoolmaster courts a farmer’s daughter in a drowsy Hudson Valley town haunted by a headless horseman.
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