A young man's longing for love is briefly fulfilled on one moonlight evening on the sea off the coast of Cannes.
A rural mountain couple struggle with their differences, anger, and overpowering love for each other.
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A new love springs from the conversations of two sisters and a couple of moles.
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Grief and heartbreak are the typical reactions to the loss of a loved one, but other emotions may lurk within.
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Twenty years after heading west to find his fortunes a man returns to meet a long lost friend.
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Before he wrote Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne was a popular humor writer. Here is one of his adult short-short stories.
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Here is the second half of Kahlil Gibran's global bestselling book with sage advice on pain and pleasure, good and evil, and the inevitability of death.
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For almost a century, the profound words of The Prophet have stirred the hearts and moved the souls of millions of readers around the world.
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The end of the old year and the start of the new has traditionally been seen as an opportunity to start fresh by setting aside old grievances and moving forward with a clean slate.
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You've heard it a dozen times, so why not one more. Here's a Visit from St. Nicholas, was it penned by Clement Moore?
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Santa and his friends face the most challenging Christmas in their long history when Santa is kidnapped by evil demons.
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When a bad harvest on the Canadian prairie means no Christmas for her cousins, a young woman does the only thing she can to rescue their holiday.
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When does the end justify the means and who gets to decide? One person's definition of morality may not be shared by others.
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Loneliness is painful enough under normal circumstances, but social rejection in the face of a personal crisis can be devastating.
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Money has the power to take us away, if only temporarily, from the due routines of life. However, there is always a price to pay for our fiscal flights of fancy and real life eventually hoists its humdrum head again.
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In the 19th Century particularly, good boys are supposed to enjoy the fruits of the righteousness, and bad boys were destined for eternal damnation, at least according to Sunday School books, but according to Mark Twain, life often contradicted expectation.
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Somewhere there’s a great story for almost every holiday, even the decidedly American tradition of Thanksgiving and who better to tell such a story than one of America’s finest authors, O. Henry.
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Pride does seem to go before a fall… In this very short story a young man’s life unravels thanks to a small vanity-induced dissimulation.
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Humans are rarely content with their lot in life. We long for something more and, all too often believe that, given the right opportunity, our lives can be made better in an instant through some fortunate event, like winning a lottery.
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As Halloween approaches, here is a bonus scary Litreading from one of my favorite authors. It’s the story of a mysterious death in the 19th-century American wilderness.