Muller, Marcia (ed.) - Child's Ploy / Мюллер, Марсия (ред.) - Детская выходка [1984, EPUB, ENG]

THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER by D. H. Lawrence HOW PEARL BUTTON WAS KIDNAPPED by Katherine Mansfield THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE by William Saroyan PAUL’S CASE by Willa Cather LITTLE BOY LOST by Q. Patrick TOO EARLY SPRING by Stephen Vincent Benét THE THREATENING THREE by William Campbell Gault THE END OF THE PARTY by Graham Greene THE LANDSCAPE OF DREAMS by John Lutz FIRE ESCAPE by Cornell Woolrich LUDMILA by Jean L. Backus DAY FOR A PICNIC by Edward D. Hoch CARNIVAL DAY by Nedra Tyre GOOD MAN, BAD MAN by Jerome Weidman LOOIE FOLLOWS ME by John D. MacDonald HERE LIES ANOTHER BLACKMAILER by Bill Pronzini MORNING SONG by Betty Ren Wright THE HEDGE BETWEEN by Charlotte Armstrong UNCLE MAX by Pat McMahon

One day back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream, my cousin Mourad, who was considered crazy by everybody who knew him except me, came to my house at four in the morning and woke me up by tapping on the window of my room. Aram, he said. I jumped out of bed and looked out the window. I couldn’t believe what I saw. It wasn’t morning yet, but it was summer and with daybreak not many minutes around the corner of the world it was light enough for me to know I wasn’t dreaming. My cousin Mourad was sitting on a beautiful white horse. . . .