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28 Letters by Alex Sultan   A gem can not be polished without friction, nor man perfe...

25 August, 2022 /

A Feast of Reason is a short story by William Dean Howells.   A Feast of Reason Flori...

29 October, 2022 /

A Happy Biurthday by Louisa May Alcott.   A certain fine old lady was seventy-three o...

09 October, 2022 /

A Mother by James Joyce.   A Mother MR HOLOHAN, assistant secretary of the Eire Abu S...

28 September, 2022 /

A Nest-Egg by James Whitcomb Riley   A Nest-Egg But a few miles from the city here, a...

21 September, 2022 /

A Pedestrian Tour is a short story by William Dean Howells.   A Pedestrian Tour Walki...

30 October, 2022 /

A Predicament by Edgar Allan Poe, 1842.   A Predicament IT was a quiet and still afte...

13 December, 2022 /

A Presentiment is a short story by William Dean Howells.   Over our coffee in the Tur...

30 October, 2022 /

A Rural Telephone by Harriet Prescott Spofford, 1909.   A Rural Telephone THE great c...

05 January, 2023 /

Aches and Pains   You tell me about your bad knee, your achy back, your sore shoulder...

25 August, 2022 /

Amber Code Hell by Scott Christenson Last week after getting off a flight in Hong Kong and...

25 August, 2022 /

An Awakening by Sherwood Anderson, An Awakening An Awakening Belle Carpenter had a dark sk...

06 October, 2022 /

An Encounter by James Joyce.   An Encounter IT WAS Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild...

28 September, 2022 /

An Experience is a short story by William Dean Howells.   An Experience For a long ti...

30 October, 2022 /

Art by Ralph Waldo Emerson is an essay –Essays, First Series [1841] Art Because the ...

21 October, 2022 /

At a Dime Museum is a short story by William Dean Howells.   At a Dime Museum “...

30 October, 2022 /

Have you wondered what you will find Beneath the water? Life beneath the water is breathta...

10 August, 2022 /

Benjamin Franklin by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Benjamin Franklin In the year 1716, or about tha...

02 October, 2022 /

Black Joe by Henry Lawson (1867-1922)     Black Joe   They called him Black...

10 November, 2022 /

Buried Treasures by Bram Stoker.   Buried Treasures Chapter I – The Old Wreck M...

10 January, 2023 /

Buying A Horse is a short story by William Dean Howells.   Buying A Horse If one has ...

30 October, 2022 /

Character by Ralph Waldo Emerson   The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his...

21 October, 2022 /

CHINUA ACHEBE (1930-2013) A summary of of the life of the renowned Nigerian author –...

29 September, 2022 /

Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1841. Circles The eye is the first circle; the...

21 October, 2022 /

Compensation by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1841. Compensation Ever since I was a boy...

21 October, 2022 /

Counterparts by James Joyce   Counterparts THE bell rang furiously and, when Miss Par...

28 September, 2022 /

David Swan by Nathaniel Hawthorne. David Swan We can be but partially acquainted even with...

02 October, 2022 /

Dirt Cheap is a story by Anne Marie Miles. Trigger Warning: Discussions of death in a way ...

22 August, 2022 /

Dislikes was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1903. Dislikes I want it to be understood t...

29 October, 2022 /

Down on the Bayou Ty Flynn is the latest Hollywood action movie star. He is making money ...

24 August, 2022 /

Fire Worship by Nathaniel Hawthorne.   Fire Worship It is a great revolution in socia...

02 October, 2022 /

Free is a science fiction short story by Sherri Moorer.   Zelina walked in the middle...

01 September, 2022 /

Greater Love by Bram Stoker.   Greater Love We was just standin’ here at about ...

12 January, 2023 /

Hands by Sherwood Anderson, 1919.   HANDS, Concerning Wing Biddlebaum Hands UPON THE ...

06 October, 2022 /

Hearts and Hands was written by O. Henry (his real name is William Sydney Potter). It was ...

08 September, 2022 /

Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe.   Hop-Frog I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke...

13 December, 2022 /

How It Happened by Arthur Conan Doyle   How It Happened   She was a writing medi...

20 October, 2022 /

How They Ran Away by Louisa May Alcott 1908. How They Ran Away   Two little boys sat ...

09 October, 2022 /

I Want to Know Why by Sherwood Anderson. I Want to Know Why We got up at four in the morni...

08 October, 2022 /

I’m A Fool by Sherwood Anderson, 1922.   I’m A Fool It was a hard jolt fo...

08 October, 2022 /

If I Let You by Aeries Walker   If I let you touch her, will you please be gentle? Ju...

25 August, 2022 /

Indian Fighters by William Dean Howells.   Indian Fighters   In the long war wit...

31 October, 2022 /

Jubilee Days by William Dean Howells.   Jubilee Days I believe I have no good reason ...

31 October, 2022 /

King Pest by Edgar Allan Poe. King Pest The gods do bear and will allow in kings The thing...

13 December, 2022 /

The summer I turned sixteen and got my license, Kyle Lewis was pulled dead from the lake. ...

16 August, 2022 /

Lights, Camera – is a short story about a girls last social media post before she ki...

05 September, 2022 /

Lois Goose Fair by D. H. Lawrence.   Lois Goose Fair I Through the gloom of evening, ...

27 September, 2022 /

Long Odds by Kenneth Grahame, 1895. Long Odds For every honest reader there exist some hal...

27 March, 2022 /

Loss of Breath by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850. Loss of Breath The most notorious ill-fortune mus...

19 December, 2022 /

Marama, a folktale. This story is told to encourage people to seek solutions to their chal...

04 April, 2023 /

Miss Mary Mack by Henry Carrington Bolton, 1888   Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack All dres...

12 October, 2022 /

Motherhood by Sherwood Anderson, 1919. Motherhood Below the hill there was a swamp in whic...

06 October, 2022 /

Mrs. Bullfrog by Nathaniel Hawthorne.     Mrs. Bullfrog It makes me melancholy t...

04 October, 2022 /

Music and Me A Personal Story About My Journey by Finayon   Finayon tells about his j...

13 November, 2022 /

My Old Man by Enerst Hemingway, 1923, 1925.   My Old Man   Introduction I heard ...

25 October, 2022 /

My Red Cap by Louisa May Alcott.   My Red Cap   “He who serves well need n...

10 October, 2022 /

Nkem is a love story set in Igbo land, Nigeria. Julius Topohozin expresses the Igbo cultur...

27 January, 2022 /

O. Henry is a pseudonym used by WIlliam Sydney Poter.     William Sydney Porter ...

26 August, 2022 /

Only Me   I got lost. So freaking lost. I just can´t find my way back. Maybe if I fo...

29 August, 2022 /

Oscar Wilde is known for his literary works, masterful comedies, wit, and jail sentence. R...

26 August, 2022 /

Our New House by Bram Stoker.   Our New House We spoke of it as our New House simply ...

12 January, 2023 /

Out of Season by Enerst Hemingway, 1923. Out of Season   On the four lira he had earn...

26 October, 2022 /

Passeur by Robert Chambers 1897. Passeur When he had finished his pipe he tapped the brier...

06 October, 2022 /

Proud Fathers is a story by Greg Madden Proud Fathers John Mason’s wife dropped her husb...

24 August, 2022 /

“Ray of Light” is one of the most interesting short stories on confessional fo...

23 August, 2022 /

Red Tent by Nick Yim   His outfit had him looking like an oval. A flat, dark egg jutt...

29 August, 2022 /

Scene by William Dean Howells   Scene On that loveliest autumn morning, the swollen t...

01 November, 2022 /

Seeds by Sherwood Anderson, 1918. Seeds He was a small man with a beard and was very nervo...

08 October, 2022 /

Senility by Sherwood Anderson   Senility He was an old man and he sat on the steps of...

08 October, 2022 /

Shadow by Edgar Allan Poe.   Shadow YE who read are still among the living; but I who...

19 December, 2022 /

Sir Isaac Newton by Nathaniel Hawthorne.   Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton was born...

02 October, 2022 /

It is often said that if you cannot fly, run. If you cannot run, walk. If you cannot walk,...

22 November, 2022 /

Someone has died is a horror story where the narrator describes her own death. Caution: Th...

16 August, 2022 /

Table Talk by William Dean Howells   Table Talk   They were talking after dinner...

01 November, 2022 /

The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho The Aged Mother   Long, long ago there lived at the f...

12 October, 2022 /

The Amigo culled from The Daughter of the Storage by William Dean Howells The Amigo  ...

01 November, 2022 /

The Bath by Henry Lawson.   The Bath THE MORAL should be revived. Therefore, this is ...

11 November, 2022 /

The Battler by Enerst Hemingway, 1925.     The Battler   Nick stood up. He ...

26 October, 2022 /

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.   The Black Cat FOR the most wild, yet most homely ...

20 December, 2022 /

The Boarders culled from The Daughter of the Storage by William Dean Howells The Boarders ...

02 November, 2022 /

The Bog Witch   Frogs croak at sundown in the bogs. That’s when she took visitors. ...

29 August, 2022 /

The Bookshop by Aldous Huxley, 1920.   The Bookshop IT seemed indeed an unlikely plac...

04 November, 2022 /

The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe.   The Business Man Method is the soul of busines...

20 December, 2022 /

The Crystal Cup by Bram Stoker.   The Crystal Cup I. The Dream-Birth The blue waters ...

12 January, 2023 /

The Darling River by Henry Lawson (1867-1922) The Darling River The Darling River — ...

11 November, 2022 /

The Desalinator   “I hate the smell of salt. I feel like all I do is look at salt, ...

01 September, 2022 /

The Egg by Sherwood Anderson, 1919. The Egg My father was, I am sure, intended by nature t...

07 October, 2022 /

The Exciseman by Henry Lawson (1867-1922)   The Exciseman HARRY CHATSWOOD, mail contr...

11 November, 2022 /

The Father – a short story by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The man whose story is here t...

08 September, 2022 /

The Father by William Dean Howells The Father As soon as we heard the pleasant news—I su...

02 November, 2022 /

The Gatekeeper   Ivan, the gatekeeper, summoned the young lad, Leonid Portnoy. Having...

22 August, 2022 /

The Gloaming by Sean Finn We stood on the porch together, staring at the vast blue twiligh...

01 September, 2022 /

The god of Fire is based on Greek mythology. The story of Hephaestus – The god of fi...

03 May, 2022 /

The Last Leaf by O. Henry   The Last Leaf In a little district west of Washington Squ...

16 October, 2022 /

The laughing tree is a folktale. This African story originates from Nigeria and is told to...

31 August, 2023 /

The Lazy hunter is a folktale about the importance of hard work and consequences of lazine...

11 September, 2023 /

The Leopard And The Cunning Fox An adaptation of The Leopard   A leopard hunting in t...

12 August, 2022 /

The Loaded Dog by Henry Lawson (1867-1922)   The Loaded Dog DAVE REGAN, Jim Bently, a...

12 November, 2022 /

THE LOST HEIR     This story is about waiting patiently for what is yours to com...

09 December, 2022 /

The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; ...

10 August, 2022 /

The Mad Lady by Harriet Prescott Spofford, 1916.     The Mad Lady CERTAINLY ther...

05 January, 2023 /

The Magic Ring by Kenneth Grahame, 1902.   The Magic Ring   GROWN-UP people real...

24 October, 2022 /

The Mother-Bird culled from The Daughter of the Storage by William Dean Howells The Mother...

03 November, 2022 /

The Namesake   The 1990s He smirked. That was a piece of cake. He dodged another one....

24 August, 2022 /

The Open Window by Saki, published on 8th November, 1911   “My aunt will be dow...

27 August, 2022 /

The other Woman by Sherwood Anderson, 1920. The Other Woman “I am in love with my wi...

07 October, 2022 /

The Pendulum by Ray Bradbury, 1939. The Pendulum The pendulum Up and down, back and forth,...

12 October, 2022 /

The Piggy Girl by Louisa May Alcott.   The Piggy Girl   “I won’t be ...

10 October, 2022 /

The Princesses is a folktale told to teach about humility, the challenges of privilege, an...

09 May, 2023 /

The Record by Ray Bradbury The Record For twenty years—for twenty long, horror filled, w...

12 October, 2022 /

The Red Stockade by Bram Stoker.   The Red Stockade We was on the southern part of th...

13 January, 2023 /

The Renegades by William Dean Howells   The Renegades Simon Girty, who tried so hard ...

04 November, 2022 /

The Sisters written by James Joyce. The Sisters THERE was no hope for him this time: it wa...

29 September, 2022 /

The Squaw by Bram Stoker.   The Squaw Nurnberg at the time was not so much exploited ...

13 January, 2023 /

The Storm by Kate Chopin, 1898.   The Storm The leaves were so still that even Bibi t...

16 October, 2022 /

The Way of Peace by Bram Stoker.   The Way of Peace I knew both Michael Hennessey and...

22 January, 2023 /

The Wedding Knell by Nathaniel Howthorne, 1836.   The Wedding Knell There is a certai...

03 October, 2022 /

This Old Man by Anonymous Published in 1906 This old man, he played one He played knick-kn...

12 October, 2022 /

To the Mountains by Louise W.   The Train snakes across the blackened strip of highwa...

29 August, 2022 /

Tom’s Money by Harriet Prescott Spofford, 1907.     Tom’s Money &nbs...

10 January, 2023 /

Transmigration is a story by R. J. Gaines   Netikka gazed across the room at the cong...

01 September, 2022 /

Two Gallants written by James Joyce.   THE grey warm evening of August had descended ...

29 September, 2022 /

United Division was written in 1888 by Henry Lawson   United Division It cannot be de...

16 November, 2022 /

Vanka by Anton Chekhov, published on Christmas Day in 1886   Vanka Zhukov, a boy of n...

27 August, 2022 /

Wakefield: Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wakefield Who absented himself for a l...

03 October, 2022 /

Watermark Craig Westmore     I began my walk across the Atlantic Ocean in the ci...

29 August, 2022 /

Ways Out by William Dean Howells.   Ways Out   In 1893 Jacob S. Coxey, a respect...

04 November, 2022 /

We Crown Thee king by Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian poet, painter, novelist, short story ...

19 September, 2022 /

Why Though? is a short story by Renuka Raghavan.   I’m surprised you stopped and ac...

05 September, 2022 /

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