A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How the prose reads.
A shepherd meets a radiant stranger who vanishes whenever he questions her.
A newly married couple’s perfect evening at a country station ends when an unexpected trainload recognizes them.
An orphan girl races through an approaching storm to find a kindly cobbler who can free her brother from a hollow tree.
A young man hides declarations of love inside the roar of a sled ride, leaving a frightened girl unsure whether hope or the wind is speaking.
Nine years after a joyful summer confession, a wealthy woman measures the life she let class and hesitation decide for her.
A solitary landowner explains how love entered his friends’ household and remained unspoken while duty and hesitation consumed the years.
A married young woman crosses the river at night to meet an idle village watchman, knowing the morning will demand an answer.
An idle landscape painter befriends two sisters and finds love complicated by a fierce argument over art, work, and social duty.
Escorted through autumn mud, a nameless tramp describes the free Siberian life he hopes awaits him beyond prison.
On Easter night, a ferry monk mourns the gentle hymn writer whose words the celebrating monastery never learned to value.
A gravely ill soldier sails home from the Far East, sustained by memories of snow, family, and a village impossibly far away.
Beneath the stars of the steppe, shepherds and an overseer trade legends of treasure and wonder what happiness might be.
A boy approaches confession with fear, rivalry, hunger, and a vivid hope that absolution will make him new.
Snowbound at a roadside tavern on Christmas Eve, a young landowner hears how a ruined idealist’s convictions consumed his life.
Two chance encounters with remarkable young women leave a traveler pondering why beauty can bring as much sadness as delight.
On a cold Good Friday evening, a theology student tells two widows a Gospel story and is startled by their response.
At a crowded monastery, a traveller shares a room with a young convert whose restless search for learning has left him without a home.
On his last night in the country, a young statistician walks into the moonlit mist with his host’s daughter and an unexpected confession.
After nearly six thousand years of immortality, a man who wants to die attempts a radical cure: rebuilding the world of his childhood.
Telepath Underhill and his feline Partner, Lady May, must destroy an alien predator in the milliseconds between jumps through interstellar space.
After promising his dying cousin that he will never love again, a grieving man leaves their hidden valley and faces a second love.
A widower watches his daughter grow into an exact copy of the wife whose death he once desired.
A demon describes a solitary man who endures a violent, unnatural landscape until the world around him becomes completely still.
An heir uses an immense fortune to create a private landscape meant to surpass nature without losing its beauty.
