A Rural Telephone by Harriet Prescott Spofford, 1909. [su_divider] A Rural Telephone THE great clock ticked with loud insistence in the immaculate room. Things had to be immaculate where Mrs. Dacre was. The sunlight sifting through bare branches gilded the brown shadows of the walls ceiled in...
A Voyage to the Moon by Edgar Allan Poe. [su_divider] A Voyage to the Moon After a long and arduous devotion to the study of physics and astronomy, I, Hans Pfaal of Rotterdam, at length determined to construct a balloon of my own along original lines and to...
I did not hear the maiden's name; but in my thought I have ever since called her "Gentle Hand." What a magic lay in her touch! It was wonderful. When and where, it matters not now to relate--but once upon a time as I was passing...
The Night Came Slowly by Kate Chopin I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Some one has said it is better to study one man than ten books. I want neither books nor men; they make...
Have you wondered what you will find Beneath the water? Life beneath the water is breathtaking. Beneath the water Victoria Amazonica is the largest member of the water lily family (Nymphaeaceae). It was previously called Victoria Regia, the name the English botanist John Lindley called the plant...