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	"Dana crawled out of the sewer pipe that had been her home for the past nine months\.  There was a break in the clouds which loomed ominously over the once thriving city\.  She blinked and squinted her cataract covered good eye as she tried to adjust her sight to the light\. " + "<A HREF = Nine_MonthsAfter.html>Read more...</A>",

	"The consequences of seduction turns out to be more than what Sarah has bargained for\, when a lover from her past would not let her go\. " + "<A HREF = Love_returns.html>Read more...</A>",

	"The crowd moved away like a wave as a ragged man who smelled of a month\'s worth of sweat and grime walked across the floor\.  He was the last to come in\, but the first to make an order in the crowded burger shop\. " + "<A HREF = Mudskipper.html>Read more...</A>",

	"Taro was a nice boy. Though he was non\-too good looking\, he was very hardworking\.  He was all the Midori\'s and Mami\'s dream boy\. Each time they looked at him\, they see a house in a serene suburban area\, perfectly dressed children\, magazine potential kitchen where a woman could cook picture perfect meals\. " + "<A HREF = taro.html>Read more...</A>",

	"Not so long ago\, there lived a young girl called Ruth\.  She had big dreams to succeed in an even bigger world\.  Her parents were proud of her and of everything she had ever achieved\, regardless of how big or small they were\. On the day she set out into the world\, her grandma gave her a piece of worn pebble\. " + "<A HREF = Pebble.html>Read more...</A>",

	"It was a day like any other day\, bright and balmy in the morning and scorching hot after lunch\.  Much as the day before\, people passed the boutique display window in a hurry\. Leslie\, however\, was in good spirits because the latest autumn\-winter collection had just arrived\. " + "<A HREF = Leslie.html>Read more...</A>",

	"Frank tapped his knee nervously\. Outside\, a mass of street activity involving people\, people and more people\, whizzed passed the rented cab\. It was his first visit to Japan\. In fact it was his company\’s first major business deal with a Japanese conglomerate\. " + "<A HREF = Cup.html>Read more...</A>",

	"Ryuichi Mori dimmed the lights in his office and looked out the window\. His eyes focused on a brightly lit building two miles away as he recalled every inch of the structure in his mind\. Dark bricks and marbles graced the morning side of the building while the opposite side was in white stonework that reflected the red of a sunset\.  Two years it had taken him to draft out a perfect and practical form\.  Now there she stood\, a beautiful sculpture\, and his first great work\. " + "<A HREF = Architect.html>Read more...</A>",

	"Angela cannot understand why her dad doesn\'t go on holidays with them\, and she cannot understand why her mother hides her from her grandmother\. " + "<A HREF = Angela.html>Read more...</A>",

	"Anna sat in front of her termite infested bedroom window and watched her mother twirl her hair into a bun\.  The nine-year-old smiled\, for her mother looked so pretty in the yellow dress. " + "<A HREF = Anna.html>Read more...</A>",

	"A soft glow seeped into the dark sky\, hinting that dawn would soon break\.  Nora\’s ears caught a sing\-song morning prayer coming from the village mosque\. The loudspeaker was old\, making the melodious devotion sound like it was coming from a scratchy record\. " + "<A HREF = Nora.html>Read more...</A>",

	"What a mess\.  Jane couldn't think right that morning\.  First her boss had jumped on her and asked for her work schedule for the day\.  He was back a day early from Singapore\, so she had to cook up some hogwash tale about visiting the old grey house on top of a low hill next to the Chinese Cemetery\.  " + "<A HREF = HouseHill.html>Read more...</A>"


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