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Two hardened criminals learn their plan is less than perfect when they discover the boy they’ve kidnapped is so bad, the only way his father will take him back is if they pay him a ransom.

A couple packing away items for a white-elephant sale finds it difficult to part with the stroller all three of their boys shared, for it represents the bonds of love they formed with their children through it.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

Discover the secret agenda of The Walrus and the Carpenter as they stroll along the beach enticing and exciting the young oysters to follow them. This is a classic morality tale written by Lewis Carroll told as a children’s poem. And, it explores movements and causes, great and small, leaders and followers, and the risks of following leaders blindly.

On a voyage, a woman meets her long term "friend" along with his wife to discover they have a mysterious oblong box in their possession. Is it merely a painting as they've told her or something much more ominous?

On a particularly sad day in her life, a woman reflects back on the happy sheltered times she spent at play beneath the willow tree of her childhood home.

On Walpurgis Nacht, The Satanic Sabbath, The Most Evil night of the year, on the evening prior to the commencement of his interplanetary invasion, a soldier records a letter to a woman to be delivered upon his death, revealing to her that they are bound in life and death in a horrific way.

A woman married to an abusive man goes to court for help. There he attempts to justify his actions. But the court finds his defense is without merit and gives him what he deserves.

On September 21, 1897, the New York Sun published what was to become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. It was sent by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, who lived with her parents in Manhattan. She asked, "Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?" Sun editorial writer Francis Pharcellus Church gave her an amazingly beautiful "Yes."