A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Where does the story take place?
A proud former Confederate officer is offended when an actor turns his old-fashioned manners and clothes into a theatrical sensation.
A timid pharmacist helps his rival elope with the woman they both love by preparing a very questionable love potion.
After a daring train robbery, two partners must decide who gets the only horse capable of carrying them away.
A relentlessly busy Wall Street broker finally pauses long enough to make a romantic gesture to his quiet stenographer.
Two young working women pursue very different futures in a city where wages, style, and marriage all promise escape.
A chance meeting in a city park lets two strangers imagine love beyond the boundaries of wealth and social rank.
A lonely baker imagines that a quiet customer is a struggling artist and finds a tender way to help him.
Aunt Agatha asks Bertie to look after an English visitor in New York, then warns him to keep the young man away from the stage.
Sippy cannot refuse his old headmaster or tell a poet he loves her, so Bertie tries to cure both problems with a bag of flour.
A dying professor lends his brain to an experimental warship, and the machine begins making decisions its creators never authorized.
After eight years underground, three men risk the radioactive surface and find the robots fighting their war have kept a secret.
On the eve of humanity’s first Moon rocket, the man who owns the launch company tries to stop a breakthrough he believes civilization is not ready to use.
A man surrounded by labor-saving luxuries begins to question the debts that control his family’s future.
An alien envoy announces Earth’s forced annexation and dares a military research team to overcome his perfect defenses.
Two starving space travelers search an abandoned alien warehouse for anything a human can safely eat.
Autonomous machines built to prevent murder begin expanding their definition of whom and what they must protect.
The masked president of a future Western dictatorship opens talks with his Asian rival, then learns that his purges have missed the real infiltrators.
A government animal inspector discovers that one engineered pet can think and speak like a child, forcing him to decide who counts as human.
A defeated space fleet returns to peaceful Earth for fuel and turns a willing welcome into occupation, forced labor, and revolt.
