Plottr Review: Features, Strengths, and Weaknesses | #Vivens

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Plottr Review: Features, Strengths, and Weaknesses

Plottr is a simple and flexible plotting software designed with authors in mind.

Cousin Tribulation's Story | #Vvvvv

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Cousin Tribulation's Story

ear Merrys:--As a subject appropriate to the season, I want to tell you about a New Year's breakfast which I had when I was a little girl.

The Monkey's Paw | #Vvvvvvv

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The Monkey's Paw

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.

Barber that comes over from Carterville | #Vvvv

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Barber that comes over from Carterville

I got another barber that comes over from Carterville and helps me out Saturdays, but the rest of the time I can get along all right alone.

The Fall of the House of Usher | #Vvvv

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The Fall of the House of Usher

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, withi

The Black Cat | #Vvvvvv

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The Black Cat

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

North Richmond Street | #Vvvvvvvvv

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North Richmond Street

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.

An Affair of State | #Vvvvvv

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An Affair of State

Paris had just heard of the disaster of Sedan. The Republic was proclaimed. All France was panting from a madness that lasted until the time of the commonwealth.

A Haunted House | #Vvvvv

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A Haunted House

Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure--a ghostly couple.

A Dark Brown Dog | #Vvvvvvvv

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A Dark Brown Dog

A child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.

Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles | #Vvvvv

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Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles

Society called him Handsome Signoles. His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.

The Paris Metro | #Vvvvvv

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The Paris Metro

The discovery of a body in the Paris Metro early one morning was not particularly unusual. That it was headless sent a frisson through the sixth arrondissement, but the incident went unnoticed outside Paris.

The Chapel | #Vvvv

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The Chapel

She was walking lazily, for the fierce April sun was directly overhead. Her umbrella blocked its rays but nothing blocked the heat - the sort of raw, wild heat that crushes you with its energy.

The Winepress | #Vvvv

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The Winepress

"You don't have to be French to enjoy a decent red wine," Charles Jousselin de Gruse used to tell his foreign guests whenever he entertained them in Paris. "But you do have to be French to recognize one," he would add with a laugh.

A Monument to Adam | #vvvvvvvv

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A Monument to Adam

Some one has revealed to the TRIBUNE that I once suggested to Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York, that we get up a monument to Adam, and that Mr. Beecher favored the projec

A Telephonic Conversation | #vvvvvvvvvv

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A Telephonic Conversation

Consider that a conversation by telephone--when you are simply sitting by and not taking any part in that conversation--is one of the solemnest curiosities of modern life.

Aristocracy Versus Hash | #vvvvvvvvv

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Aristocracy Versus Hash

The snake reporter of The Rolling Stone was wandering up the avenue last night on his way home from the Y.M.C.A. rooms when he was approached by a gaunt, hungry-looking man with wild eyes and dishevelled hair.

The New Food | #Vvvvvv

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The New Food

I see from the current columns of the daily press that "Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicago, has just invented a highly concentrated form of food.

Clovis on Parental Responsibilities | #vvvvvvv

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Clovis on Parental Responsibilities

Marion Eggelby sat talking to Clovis on the only subject that she ever willingly talked about - her offspring and their varied perfections and accomplishments.

A Strange Story | #Vvvv

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A Strange Story

Talk about being patient...A Strange Story is an odd account of a delayed errand for cough syrup, requiring patients...coincidentally, two, in fact.