The Executioner

Frank Riley

Every pair of eyes in the hushed courtroom watched Jake Emspak walk slowly toward the prospective juror.

Frank Riley

_Philip Duncan, the St. Louis attorney and former FBI agent, who wrote the definitive "History of Espionage", observes that in all the records dealing with spies and counterspies there is no more s...

Frank Riley

Walther Von Koenigsburg woke up a few moments after the earth shuttle had passed Venus.

Frank Riley

Dr. Lucifer Brill stepped briskly down the corridor of the Federal Building.

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.