Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in...

A Story Inspired by Medusa’s Sister and a Piece of Unplayable Piano MusicTo gorgonise. An old English word based on Greek. Means to have a paralysing effect on someone.Taken...

Handle the Most Difficult Girl in the Galaxy, or Everything Blows UpWhen an alien princess arrives, a jaded celebrity handler has to keep her happy. But will he manage to get...

Rita just couldn’t keep on shutting out her feelings. And the good news was that her mother as well as her stepdad, Ricky, weren’t really on good terms since her...

Milly has a security guard who is too nice to her, and she is sad because that is the only good thing in her life. The man, Malcom, is a large gentle man who tries his best to...

Dana Barron was only a small boy when his mother took her newborn daughter, Coralie—and left. Despite their hurt and grief, Dana and his father built a happy life together,...

One of the best examples of Woolf's modernist innovation, the story starts in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The...

Amery was content with having her boyfriend by her side during her graduation ceremony. But as far as Kennedy was concerned, he wanted to do more than just being there. He wanted...

It was none of their expectations, but it happened in a way they couldn’t turn on each other’s back at this point. Lily found herself making out with her best...

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen...