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I slept with a murderer every night of my life for two years. The murderer is dead now. He died some weeks ago in Chicago. That is why I am free to tell the tale.
I was a small boy at that time. I…
Contributor:
Louis Golding
Places:
Manchester, United Kingdom
Date:
1938
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Manhattan, a high narrow kingdom as hopeful as any that ever was, burst upon him full force, a great and imperfect steel-tressed palace of a hundred million chambers, many-tiered gardens, pools…
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Mark Helprin
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1983
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Pantel the wagon driver stretches out under the covers and sits up, yawning. The house is dark but a faint light is just beginning to penetrate through the peepholes in the shutter.
“It’s…
Contributor:
Ojzer Warszawski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Nothing else makes me really rage
as when a poor man does something [wrong]
he is lost here and there
everyone would happily drink his blood.
But what the rich do here
is always all right
people let…
Contributor:
Elye Bokher
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1513