A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
To keep a promise, a Klondike traveler carries a friend's heavy bag through storms, rapids, and a mountain pass.
After a motor race, a wealthy young Irishman joins his foreign friends for a night of celebration.
With Christmas near, a plantation household searches in the rain for three missing turkeys.
Fifine takes her father's old fiddle to a plantation party, hoping it can help feed her family.
After saving for months, two twelve-year-old twins walk into town to buy their first shoes.
A stopped train brings strangers to Caline's rural home, leaving her curious about the world beyond it.
A teenage mail carrier stops at a dance and finds that his horse and mailbag have vanished.
A town speculates about whom an awkward young woman will marry.
A lawyer urges a woman to divorce her absent husband and grows invested in her decision.
After emancipation, Aunt Peggy asks for a quiet cabin where she can spend her final days.
An elderly freed man keeps trying to reach the family that enslaved him decades earlier.
After hearing that her husband has died, a woman discovers an unexpected feeling while she sits alone.
A reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
A king's cruel rhyme inspires his sister to prove a missing lady's fidelity.
A Polish exile in Naples finds love while carrying papers that could imperil an empire.
Two old friends keep a twenty-year appointment, but the lives they built have carried them to opposite sides of the law.
A young man sends a street boy to plead his case to the woman who has forbidden him to write or speak to her.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
On a train crossing the West, a chance reunion forces a young man to choose between truth and the image he once hoped to become.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A millionaire father bets that money can solve his son's romantic dilemma, while the young lover searches for one uninterrupted moment.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
A carefree young heir must explain how he spends a thousand-dollar bequest before learning what the money may truly be worth.
