Linguistics

Mrs. Wiggs and her five children find themselves in danger of losing their shack in the cabbage patch, as they are falling behind on the mortgage and unable to get the necessary employment that they need....

It was a big, coffin-shaped plywood box that looked like it weighed a ton. This brawny type just dumped it through the door of the police station and started away....

A demented scientist discovers how to create human life - not perfect but improving steadily with each attempt....

The time is the American Civil War: Southern plantation-owner Peyton Farquahr has been condemned to death for spying against the Union cause....

"Beyond the Door" is a story that asks and answers the question: What lives beyond the door? And is it dangerous....

An earth tremor is noted by all the scientific stations in Antarctica, but it is the American crew that comes upon what appears to be a crashed spaceship and four alien children....

How can a man fight a native superstition with logic in order to save the inhabitants of an entire planet....

When his ship is wrecked in a storm, Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with no one to help him and no chance of rescue....

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III collection....

All of us want to leave a mark on our world. We want to be remembered for the good we did. This is the dilemma for author Ellis Parker Butler....

A missing national treasure. A dancer who might be a spy. A double agent. An old actor. A murder. How are they all interconnected? Find out....

A man stands on Owl Creek Bridge with his hands tied, preparing to face death by hanging. Then the ground slips out from under him, the rope breaks, and he has a moment to reimagine his future. Praised for its experimental shifts in time and surprise ending, this story is not one to miss....

Surprisingly few people take any time to think about how they are learning languages. They usually just trust their teacher or friends' advice....

Would you receive a ‘char and a wad’ with a grateful smile? If asked to take a ‘dekko’, would you be offended? Find out....

Is a robot on a distant planetoid a substitute for a relationship with a woman Mark had never met?....

The Tarlton conservatory is the scene of many a Shavian skirmish: parents vying with children, sibling rivalry, and the battle of the sexes....

Eve's Diary - Complete, written by the incomparable Mark Twain, was first published in 1905 in the Christmas edition of Harper's Bazaar....

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown....

This story, which many consider Everett Cole's best, is an intriguing sci-fi tale. Could an entire civilization be merely pawns in an elaborate game? Find out....

Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians - the western world's brutalized workers - assumed power everywhere....