The story shelf
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5 stories · Selected from the catalog
Guy de MaupassantA reclusive count explains why a traveling mother, her daughter, and a different grateful companion visit him every July.
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A solitary count faces a family curse as his thirty-second birthday nears and hidden rooms in his ruined château reveal an old revenge.
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An artist needs his wealthy uncle's approval to marry, so Bertie brings in Jeeves to find a way past the man's stubbornness.
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Sixty years after being stranded on Mars, an old man receives a phone call from the younger self he recorded to survive the silence.
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A lone prospector crosses Venus’s deadliest desert while strict cash-only services deny him the supplies he needs to survive.
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