Illustrated by Earl Mayan
Swindler’s Luck
The mobsters would kill him if they ever caught on to his game. He was betting his life they wouldn’t.
Read the short story “Swindler’s Luck” by Ben Hecht [PDF].
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March 13, 2010 
Fiction & Poetry
The Little Miller Attack
Living in a small town, you can never really escape your past—a gripping new story from an emerging literary voice.
Death and Ms. FitzSimons
When a man with terminal cancer goes off into the snowy woods to meet death, he finds more than he bargained for.
Miss Temptation
A soldier just back from Korea disrupts a small town's daily ritual—and makes a pretty girl cry—in Kurt Vonnegut's well-loved short story.
Treasures of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
Examine some of Kurt Vonnegut's personal artifacts that are on display at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in downtown Indianapolis.
The No-Talent Kid
Nothing could shake Walter's determination to get into the marching band. So how could his conductor tell him how misplaced his ambition was?
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