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A short, accessible collection of key historic writings about presidential impeachment, as part of a new Penguin Classics series on liberty and constitutional rights.

This volume contains 10 stories. A Little Bit More is Volume 3 of a four-part series.

Listen to The Horned Ones: Cornucopia by Christine Morgan, today.

In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in front of a state senator and the legal counsel for the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, nicknamed the “Johns Committee.” His crime? Being a suspected homosexual. And the government of Florida would use any tactic at their disposal—legal or not—to get Copleston to admit it.

Phobias are defined as an irrational and extreme fear to something. It could be anything as long as it causes an intense and debilitating fear. What happens when these irrational fears/phobias become reality? We’ve created an A to Z phobia list and elevated each one to a new level of fear. These stories come to life in ways that will make you want to sleep with the light on, double check the locks on your door, and think twice before dismissing your fear as irrational.

Bryce Pedley is a 40s-era PI in modern-day Latham, New York, complete with a fedora, a double-breasted suit, a shoulder harness, and a revolver. Where cops fail, he succeeds—and the cops take all the credit. Samuel Cohen hires Pedley in a bar to find a rare book collection the Nazis stole in 1939. Locate rare books? Easy.

The night before the dance performance that could determine Gracie Wilder’s career, her father unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a curious gift with ties to a myth told to her as a child. Desperate to understand her father’s unspoken words, she puts her greatest dream on the line for an opportunity to remember the childhood she tried so hard to forget.

A collection of 23 stories from Kurt Newton, including "The Pit", "Puppies for Sale", "Bruises", "Under the Bridge", "Thumbin'", "Something Profound", "The Whittling", "Creak!", "Angels of Mercy", "Angels of Grief", "Skins", "The Banana Man", "Dead Dogs", "Trunk Story", "Nature Walk", "The Dog Park", "B-Side", "Lost Dog", "Periphery", "Post Mortem", "The Stagnant Ponds", "Thirty-Two Scenes from a Dead Hooker's Mouth", "Lump", and "The Golden Door".

If you sit a spell and look just so, you might catch a glimpse into another world, or several. Some seem no different from the world you call home, give or take a monster waiting in the shadows, an avenging angel hidden in plain sight, or an inhuman forest spirit better left undisturbed.