Black Tartan★★★★☆T.M. AndersonBlack Tartan, written by TM Anderson, is a novella centered on Aboagye, a young African man who was abducted from his homeland by slavers in the early 1700s. After surviv...

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The Cask of AmontilladoThe thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.  You, who so well know the nature of my soul,…

Imagine this:  you are a high school science teacher on an expedition in the North Dakota badlandsdmr.nd.govNorth Dakota's BadlandsNorth Dakota's Badlands | Department of Mineral Resources, North Dako...

The RanchThe Zerbst Ranch near Newcastle, Wyoming, encompassing 7,000 acres has contributed to our understanding of dinosaurs for 118 years.   Since Charles Zerbst homesteaded there in the 1890s, five...

Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 23,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.

Scientists studying fossil teeth from Tyrannosaurus rex have settled a debate nearly 60 years old:  the famous dinosaur was warm-blooded.  Specifically, it maintained a body temperature of about 97 de...

There was once was a boy named Michael who was mercilessly bullied.  This is not a work of fiction.  Michael was a real kid who I went to school with.  He was a grade…

Around 176,500 years ago in Southwestern France, a group of Neanderthals built something that has endured longer than human civilization has existed.  Whether it was the same group that did this, or i...

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Three boys' adventurous outing on the ice nearly turns into a tragedy.

The Letter Under the FloorboardsThere was something wrong with the house.  What it was, Harriet Porter had no idea, but she'd always known that there was something about it.  It wasn't "wrong" in the ...

The Letter Under the FloorboardsThere was something wrong with the house.  What it was, Harriet Porter had no idea, but she'd always known that there was something about it.  It wasn't "wrong" in the ...

The Letter Under the FloorboardsThere was something wrong with the house.  What it was, Harriet Porter had no idea, but she'd always known that there was something about it.  It wasn't "wrong" in the ...

The Letter Under the FloorboardsThere was something wrong with the house.  What it was, Harriet Porter had no idea, but she'd always known that there was something about it.  It wasn't "wrong" in the ...

The Letter Under the FloorboardsThere was something wrong with the house.  What it was, Harriet Porter had no idea, but she'd always known that there was something about it.  It wasn't "wrong" in the ...

The Letter Under the FloorboardsThere was something wrong with the house.  What it was, Harriet Porter had no idea, but she'd always known that there was something about it.  It wasn't "wrong" in the…

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