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The New Mother
Little Housing Crisis on the Prairie
"It sounds wonderful," Ma said politely in her gentle voice. "And what will our rate be after the introductory period, Mr. Edwards?"
"That depends on those scoundrels in Washington!" Mr. Edwards declared hotly.
"Pa, how much will we pay for the house?" Mary asked.
"What we pay doesn't matter much, Mary," Pa explained. "At 1.5 percent interest, we [...]
Worldometers
Zak Smith Illustrates Gravity’s Rainbow
Fox in Socks
This is the book I was reading when I realized I could read.
Gadsby, Champion of Youth
Just as Gadsby was thinking nothing was now lacking in Branton Hills, a child in a poor family got typhoid symptoms from drinking from a small brook at a picnic and, without any aid from our famous Organization, a public clamor was forthcoming for Municipal District Nursing, as so many folks look with horror at [...]
Spineless Books
TIME FOR SOME STORIES
ALRIGHT SO ONE BRIGHT MORNING IN KINDERGARTEN FOR SHOW AND TELL I MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT HOW SOME OF THE FLOWERS IN OUR FRONT YARD HAD BEEN TRAMPLED DURING THE LATE EVENING. I GAVE EVERYONE WHAT I HOPED TO BE A SUSPICIOUS SQUINT, AND THEN WAGGED MY INDEX FINGER AT THE CLASS AND DEMANDED TO [...]
Where the Wild Things Are
The Brick Moon
If from the surface of the earth, by a gigantic peashooter, you could shoot a pea upward from Greenwich, aimed northward as well as upward; if you drove it so fast and far that when its power of ascent was exhausted, and it began to fall, it should clear the earth, and pass outside the [...]
Reading to a Dog and a Deer
NASCAR Season Canceled
LOUDON, NH -- Shock, grief, and the overwhelming sense of loss that has swept the stock car racing community following the death by apparent suicide of writer David Foster Wallace has moved NASCAR to cancel the remainder of its 2008 season in respect for the acclaimed but troubled author of Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun [...]