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Kids can say the creepiest things. Twenty-seven New Zealand and American authors delve into the strange, the unexpected, and the downright terrifying things that kids say in this collection of all-new flash fiction. From the mouths of babes come 37 stories, from the haunting to the hilarious to the horrific. Leave the lights on tonight. So you’ll see them coming.

In Désirée’s Baby, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African ancestry, a problem for a prewar white family. Accused of dishonesty by her husband, the mother, Désirée, and her child walk off into the bayou, never to be seen again. But when the father finds a letter from his mother to his father which reveals an explosive fact about his own ancestry, he learns a sobering truth.

A baby gives us a tour of the things it owns, including, "the couple of old persons around 20 who refer to themselves as 'father' and 'mother'.

A collection of three stories to mark the Leap Year by Laura Marney, Ruth Thomas and Alan Spence. The Leap Year Tales are: 'Aw Wrong' by Laura Marney: Facing the imminent birth of their first child, a couple take steps to try to influence the course of nature. Read by Gabriel Quigley. 'February Alone' by Ruth Thomas: An intended romantic lunch goes strangely awry. Will a gift of lingerie help save the hour?

The greatest short story writers strive to achieve a single, dramatic effect, a feature which the early masters of this genre perfected. Although the short story came from Europe, it was reborn in America and reached a pinnacle of superb form on these shores by the turn of the 20th century. In so many of our best writers, we hear echoes of a pioneer ethos that sustains the heart of a great literature. Here are 12 of America's best.

A storyteller in the very best southern tradition, Lee Smith pens unexpected plots vibrant with luminous prose. Her powerful short stories in Me and My Baby View the Eclipse capture those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface. This collection was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

All Amanda Wainwright wants is a little romance - from the right man. When she starts receiving candy and flowers anonymously, she dares to hope for a love connection. Will her secret admirer turn out to be Mr. Right, or will he end up being Mr. Wrong?

"An Ominous Baby", which is quite short, is an unexpected Stephen Crane jewel. Crane is best known for three short stories, "The Open Boat", thought by many to be the best short story ever written, "The Blue Hotel", and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky". "An Ominous Baby" is perhaps the most unusual of the other ten Crane stories Simply recorded. It deserves to be right up there with the top three.

Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole background. Today she is now considered a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century. This powerful little story concerns a Southern gentleman who disowns his wife because he fears she has "negro" blood. The truth makes for a dramatic ending.

Following the termination of the affair, my life with my fiancé goes on largely as normal for some time, and I think I'm in the clear. That is until one day my ex suddenly shows up in my living room along with my fiancé, and I find myself in a most unexpected situation....

To him, I'm almost certain I'm just another girl, another pretty face. He's a billionaire, after all, able to have any woman he wants. And for my part, I'm not that hard up for romance either - I'm a model, capable of snaring nearly any straight male I have my sights set on. But whether he likes it or not, the two of us now share a very significant connection, in the form of the baby the two of us made during a weekend long affair of passion at a resort.

A bachelor party, married men, alcohol, horny single men, more alcohol, strippers, very nasty movies, loose women, and did I mention the smell of cheap perfume, grunts, groans, and moans of sex in every room. What can a married man do? Well, he can't NOT have sex... We all know how this party ends. Hangover, a guilty conscience, and a seven-year itch that's just been scratched, confession time. Oh, baby, bad move, boy. Don't ever mess with an already neglected woman who's just been cheated on. And god help you if she has a BFF like Jetta!