Short Story by Mary Coleridge. After a king dies of fever, his spirit dreams that his life will be restored if it can locate three people who wish that he was still alive within an hour of his death. The spirit’s findings are not what it had expected.
Short Stories by Ellen Gilchrist. A trilogy of stories following "Rhoda", a willful third-grader in the final days of World War 2, through her rebellious early teens and first sexual experience at fourteen, to a fall at age thirty-four that leads to a crossroads in her life.
Quick Read by Roald Dahl. A newly rich man tries to climb the social ladder by hosting lavish dinner parties. He buys some of the world’s best wines and tries to learn about them. Unfortunately, his butler takes advantage of what he doesn’t know and destroys his high society hopes.
Short Story by H. G. Wells. A man known as a sceptic as far as miracles are concerned suddenly discovers he can make things happen just by thinking about them. He and his parish priest become so obsessed with using the power for good that they bring about global catastrophe.
Short Story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. A young Samurai lies dead in a bamboo grove. The story comprises seven accounts of the death (including three confessions and the voice of the victim speaking through a medium) and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions as to what really took place.