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  1. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    They judge character by the way a chin is worn—style has replaced principle.
    Wilde, Oscar

  2. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    She tells him to acquire relations—and to produce a parent before the season ends; how does one go about manufacturing a parent?
    Wilde, Oscar

  3. The Yellow Wallpaper

    The pattern seems to strangle them, turning bodies upside-down and leaving their eyes white—what if their heads were gone?
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  4. The Yellow Wallpaper

    I can't be bothered to lift a hand; I'm dreadfully fretful and cry at nothing, most of the time.
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  5. The Yellow Wallpaper

    Someone is always trying to climb through the paper—its strangling, many‑headed pattern refuses to let them pass.
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  6. A Christmas Carol

    One gentle word at night can make a house feel like heaven—what did he say to change everything?
    Charles Dickens

  7. A Christmas Carol

    The Ghost sprinkles his torch over a four-roomed house—why would blessing choose the poorest chimney?
    Charles Dickens

  8. A Christmas Carol

    His phantom shrank into a bedpost—what fear can so suddenly collapse into ordinary furniture?
    Charles Dickens

  9. A Christmas Carol

    I set out to raise a harmless ghost of an idea—will you let it haunt you pleasantly?
    Charles Dickens

  10. A Christmas Carol

    He collapses and begs the spirit for a promise of change—what would he risk to erase his past?
    Charles Dickens

  11. A Christmas Carol

    Some cloak cruelty in piety—whose deeds will you charge to the doer, not the name they invoke?
    Charles Dickens

  12. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    Boys joked it cost a half-cent to kill a Black person—and the world around them did nothing to stop it.
    John Chua

  13. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    I crawled into a corn sack to sleep on the damp floor—my feet so cracked by frost that they bled into the pen I write with.
    John Chua

  14. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    Their songs made the woods ring—voices that braided highest joy and deepest sorrow as they walked to the Great House Farm.
    John Chua

  15. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    At Christmas a slave who stayed sober was nearly a disgrace—masters preferred their laborers merry and manageable.
    John Chua