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Setting: Modern
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Just Say Yes
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Genre: ComedySetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Allergy, Bowling, Faint (verb), Give a speech, Health condition, Horse-riding, Salmon, Spot (body), Squeamish, Terrible, UnableWord Count: 2308Tony cannot say no. So he eats food he doesn’t like, does a job he hates, and goes on holidays where he almost dies. But when his friend asks him to marry her, will he still say yes?
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Have You Met Elaine?
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Genre: HorrorSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Cuppa, Defrost, Egging, Fertiliser, Hoarder, Infer, Intermittent fasting, Parish council, Ragamuffin, Six pack, Spot (skin), VandaliseWord Count: 1728Have you met Elaine? Elaine is very giving, but not very nice. Oh, she loves everyone, but she shows her love through action, not smiles.
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Return to the Sea
An old fisherman sits fishing by the sea. He has seen the world change hugely through his life. But today, something monstrous is waiting in the water.
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Adrian’s Dream
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Autopilot, Bespectacled, Blaring, Buoy, Circadian rhythm, Dent, Diagnostic framework, Fête, Hook line sinker, Nap, Pond, Querying agents, Thrum, Weaker selfWord Count: 1118Adrian wants to write, but he can never concentrate. He tries waking up early before work, but he always just goes back to bed. Finally, he decides to nap.
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The Shape of Art
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Abstract, Art supplies, Bin, Landscape (painting), Law, Portrait, Sculpture, Shape, Wrong (feeling)Word Count: 1397Felicity is a successful lawyer, but she wants a change. She tries painting and loves it. But there’s a problem: everyone hates her paintings. Can she find the true shape of her art?
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Think Fast!
Eugene is a big nerd, and he’s afraid of everything. But one day, a man attacks him in the street, and Eugene discovers that he isn’t so weak after all.
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How the Platypus Came to Be
The nose of a duck, the fur of an otter and the tail of a beaver: platypuses are one of the strangest animals in the world! So where did they come from?
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The Freezer Door
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Cheek, Cliff, Freeze, Freezer, Gooseberry, Kid, Nightmare, Parallel universe, Pick at, Sober, Weigh something upWord Count: 1517A woman has a loving husband and children, and she’s great at her job. So why is she sad? One day, she opens the freezer door and sees the way into another world. If she goes, she will lose her husband and children. But could she be happy there?
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Misty the Snake (Rerun)
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Genre: ComedySetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Bubble wrap, Ex, Lick, Marmite, Owner, Parcel, Prison bars, Put a bounty on someone’s head, Queue, Sneak, Tongue, YeastWord Count: 1457Misty the Snake loves eating other people’s pets. This does not make the people of the United Kingdom happy. So her owner takes her to Brazil, but really she wants to go home to Ghana…
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Doing Evil Part 2
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: ‘Even if I die trying’, A-level, Brush yourself off, Detention, Do-gooder, Frame someone for something, Indoctrination, Oxbridge, PE, Practically vibrating, Put your head down, Ripple, Theology, Wet the bedWord Count: 4021Tobias arrives at St Gummarus’ School for Nasty Children. At first, he thinks his parents might have made a mistake, because all the kids here are badly behaved and nasty. But he soon realises that deep down, they are good, and they’re threatening his mission to do evil. So Tobias decides to use goodness as a weapon…
