said Fireman Fred . “ I can be up there in no time ! ” LE The firemen put up their tallest ladder . While Mike and Dan held out a net — just in case – Fred fearlessly began scrambling up the ladder . ... I feel really frazzled !
Poor Fred felt really frazzled now — until he had an idea . “ I know just the person to rescue us from this situation ! ” he said . “ Who ? ” asked the others . “ Tony ! ” said Fireman Fred . “ His pizzas are yummy , and an extra ...
The baker makes crank phone calls , which the mother receives while the boy is hospitalized and later after he dies . At first she can't make the connection and has no idea who is calling , but at last she figures it out .
A collection of stories by the winner of the 1999 John Simmons Short Fiction Award delves deeply into love as it is experience by the under-thirty generation--among Deadheads, gay teenage girls, depressed Peace Corps volunteers, and ...
In fact, not far from here there's a section of the park called Rotten Row, where young men used to parade their horses around in front of the young ladies in ... “Well, I'll give you that, but I still feel like a bit of a fool, anyway.
In his last weeks he took to the water off the Solway Strand. The Brow-well was rich in iron; a bottomless, salted mud. The wind of Annandale cut to the very bone. The poet waded out: he shivered in the green cordial, knowing death, ...
A sanctioned sequel to Mario Puzo's blockbuster novel, The Godfather, continues the saga of the Corleone family, beginning in 1955 and recounting the events that occurred between the end of the original novel and the episodes chronicled in ...
But they also show concern for the future of real people. The author's books include Involution Ocean and Islands in the Net.
Tell the story that would win you over, even if you didn't want to hear it. The Secrets of Story provides comprehensive, audience-focused strategies for becoming a master storyteller.
From "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" comes a coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time that follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American ...