The Call From Beyond: Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself—restless forever with an ultimate knowledge, possessing which no man could die! -Clifford Simak
Tiger ! Tiger !: How Mowgli the Jungle boy deals with Shere Kahn, the lame tiger who has vowed to kill himRudyard Kipling
The Engineer: The Big Wheels of tomorrow will be men who can see the big picture. But blowouts have small beginnings....Frederick Pohl
The Foxholes of Mars: The wars of the far future will be fought with giant spaceships, but it will still take the infantryman in the mud to hold down the planets.Fritz Leiber
Woman's World: He found himself five hundred years into the future, a man fought over by women and he didn't know why. Then he found out. The future was a—A Woman's World!Robert Silverberg1.5
Sing a Song 'o Six Pence: a pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pieL. Frank Baum
The Cat and the Fiddle: Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon! The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran off with the spoon!L. Frank Baum5
Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze: Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time. Holmes: That was the curious incident.Conan Doyle
With No Strings Attached: Sometimes an invention is so good, it's impossible to sell it.Randall Garrett
Little Miss Muffet: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating of curds and whey. Along came a great spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away.L. Frank Baum
Little Bo-Peep: Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them! Oh dear!L. Frank Baum
Pipe Dream: Simon Grue found a two-inch mermaid in his bathtub. It had arms, hips, a finny tail, and (here the real trouble began) a face that reminded him irresistibly of the girl next doorFritz Leiber3