Short Stories
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Jewett, Sarah Orne [Jewett, Sarah Orne]

The Town Poor MRS. WILLIAM TRIMBLE and Miss Rebecca Wright were driving along Hampden east road, one afternoon in early spring. Their progress was slow. Mrs. Trimble’s sorrel horse was ...
( Category: Short Stories September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]

(NOTE: The author wishes to give credit where due. The Yiddish words are mine, they come out of my childhood and my heritage, but some of the definitions have been ...
( Category: Short Stories September 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Hamilton, Laurell K. [Hamilton, Laurell K.]

HOUSE OF WIZARDS This is another story about domestic skills being more important than magic. I have no talent for organizing a household. None. Over the years I’ve come to ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1904-01-01 | Author:Henry, O. [Henry, O.]

SPRINGTIME À LA CARTE It was a day in March. Never, never begin a story this way when you write one. No opening could possibly be worse. It is unimaginative, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1922-09-22 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

6 John stood facing Mr. Braddock Washington in the full sunlight. The elder man was about forty, with a proud, vacuous face, intelligent eyes, and a robust figure. In the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-28 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1926-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

"How?" "I'll arrange it--if you'll pull yourself together a little. This is Rags talking to you, don't you understand, John? I want you to sit here and not move until ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-05 | Author:Gogol, Nikolai [Gogol, Nikolai]

OLD-WORLD LANDOWNERS HOW I LOVE the unassuming life of those proprietors of remote estates who are known in Little Russia as old-world landowners and who, like decrepit picturesque cottages, present ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

ABSOLUTION There was once a priest with cold, watery eyes, who, in the still of the night, wept cold tears. He wept because the afternoons were warm and long, and ...
( Category: Short Stories September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-04-13 | Author:Hendricks, Greer [Hendricks, Greer]

MARA I’ve just finished my shift at Bobo, the latest temp job in a string of gigs that I’ve landed since college, when my phone rings. Impulsively I answer the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Forster, E. M. [Forster, E. M.]

The Machine Stops PART I THE AIR-SHIP 1 IMAGINE, IF YOU CAN, a small room, hexagonal in shape like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

IV This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sounds of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning. Betty and the camel joined the crowd, ...
( Category: Short Stories September 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-31 | Author:Grisham, John [Grisham, John]

(6) 8:50 p.m. The buzzer sounds in the distance and Cody stands to see who’s coming. It’s Jack Garber, moving slowly, hands stuck in pants pockets, absent his usual stack ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-27 | Author:Okorafor, Nnedi [Okorafor, Nnedi]

The next agreed “evening,” we all had dinner after touring Kisha’s, Gracious’s, and then my ship. After all everyone had seen, no one was that impressed with my ship. I ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2024 )
epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:O'Connor, Flannery [O'Connor, Flannery]

V KEEPING close to his side of the hedge, he crept through the dark damp grass toward the street. The night was close and very still. A light went on ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2024 )