Year: 2020
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Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream
Read Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream by James Alan Gardner onlineThree Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream.Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 1997 1. Concerning an Arrangement of Lenses, So Fashioned as to Magnify the View of Divers Animacules, Too Tiny to…
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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read online The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansBy Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellowfog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday Idoubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in BakerStreet to see the loom of…
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard BachTo the real Jonathan Seagull,who lives within us all.PART ONEIt was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water. and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a…
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The Country Of The Blind By H. G. Wells
Read online The Country Of The Blind By H. G. WellsThree hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snowsof Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies thatmysterious mountain valley, cut off from the world of men, the Country ofthe Blind. Long years ago that…
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The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read online The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn recording from time to time some of the curious experiencesand interesting recollections which I associate with my long andintimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continuallybeen faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion topublicity. To…
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The Grand Inquisitor By Feodor Dostoevsky
Read online The Grand Inquisitor By Feodor Dostoevsky(Translation by H.P. Blavatsky)[Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour soloudly, both in print and private letters–“Show us the wonder-working ‘Brothers,’ let them come out publicly–and we willbelieve in them!”][The following is an extract from M. Dostoevsky’s celebratednovel, The Brothers Karamazof,…
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Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson
Read online Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs oftennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for:If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’retechnical, go crude. I’m…
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read The Adventure of the Cardboard Box By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle onlineIn choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkablemental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I haveendeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presentedthe minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field forhis talents. It…
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New Rose hotel by William Gibson
Read New Rose hotel by William Gibson online Seven rented nights in this coffin, Sandii. New Rose Hotel. How Iwant you now. Sometimes I hit you. Replay it so slow and sweet and mean, Ican almost feel it. Sometimes I take your little automatic out of my bag,run my thumb…
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The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Read The Veldt by Ray Bradbury online “George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.” “Whataa’s wrong with it?” “I don’t know.” “Well, then.” “I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in tolook at it.”“What would a psychologist want with a nursery?”“You know…
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The Hunting Of The Snark An Agony In Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll
PREFACE If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writingnonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief butinstructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (inp.4)“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.”In view of this painful possibility, I…
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English poems by Francis Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)At The HaciendaKnow I not whom thou mayst beCarved upon this olive-tree,–“Manuela of La Torre,”–For around on broken wallsSummer sun and spring rain falls,And in vain the low wind calls“Manuela of La Torre.”Of that song no words remainBut the musical refrain,–“Manuela of La Torre.”Yet at night, when…
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