Tillie

Rog Phillips

_The first of the_ morons, _as they were popularly called, though they were totally lacking in intelligence, were born in 1971, eleven years after the Mutual Retaliation phase of the ...

Rog Phillips

The gavel rapped sharply, and the murmur of conversation throughout the banquet room drifted into hushed silence.

Rog Phillips

If Nature suddenly began to behave differently, what we consider obvious and elementary today might become--unthinkable.

Rog Phillips

ILLUSTRATOR LLEWELLYN _Aunt Matilda needed him desperately, but when he arrived she did not want him and neither did anyone else in his home town._ I was in the midst of the fourth draft o...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.