The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats....
A man collapses while drinking a cup of coffee. His wife and their servant raise a hand and releases it. It drops imertly. He's dead. His worries are...
A notary's clerk and the cleaning woman play a trick on their employer. This earns the clerk a box on the ears. They up the stakes by writing letters...
Twenty-eight years since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways...