I think that had Saki not had such cruel and unforgiving guardians as the 2 aunts who raised him, we would not have the gems that he wrote later on in life. Saki is the pen name of Hector Hugh Monroe born in Burma in 1871. While visiting England in 1872, his mother Mary was charged by a cow. She was so shocked that she miscarried and died days later. Because of this, his father shipped their 3 children back to England. He was only 2 years old when he was sent to live with his grandmother and two unmarried aunts on his father’s side.

He published The Rise of the Russian Empire in 1900; his only serious historical work. He is regarded as a master of the short story and was influenced by Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Lewis Carroll. He was killed by a German sniper in November of 1916 during the Great War. Apparently, his last words were: “Put that bloody cigarette out!”

The Interlopers is a very dark story about retribution. Two men quarrel over land and accuse the other of interloping. In the end, who are the real interlopers? And who will pay?

Désirée's Baby is a tragedy written in 1893. It takes place in rural Louisiana before the abolition of slavery. It is about inter-racial marriage, but not in the way one might think of it today.

Ignorance is bliss, they say, until you find out the truth, but by then it’s too late.

Sherwood Anderson was an American writer born in Camden, Ohio in 1876 and died in Colon, Panama in 1941. He was 64 years old. He was influenced by Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and the Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev. His writing is personal, and almost autobiographical. He talks from the heart without much embellishment or sentimentality.

Some of us might feel as if we lead lives of quiet desperation. Maybe there are even times when a person feels trapped by circumstance. When they think they made a mistake and are not living the life they wanted to live, were meant to live. Somehow they feel cheated. 'The Untold Lie' looks at this predicament and asks, “Is that really true? Or is it a lie?”