An Enigmatic Nature
On the red velvet seat of a first-class railway carriage a pretty lady sits half reclining. An expensive fluffy fan trembles in her tightly closed…
Literature
The Cock Of The Walk
Down the road, kicking up the dust until he marched, soldier-wise, in a cloud of it, that rose and grimed his moist face and added…
An Artist’s Story
It was six or seven years ago when I was living in one of the districts of the province of ‘T’, on the estate of…
The Apple Tree
Sam Maddox’s house was like a glaring blot on the tidy New England landscape, for the very landscape had been made to bear evidence to…
An Actor’s End
Shtchiptsov, the “heavy father” and “good-hearted simpleton,” a tall and thick-set old man, not so much distinguished by his talents as an actor as by…
The Romance of a Busy Broker
The Romance of a Busy Broker by O. Henry Pitcher, a confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild…
The Buffalo of Dreams
The Buffalo of Dreams (A Tale From Southern China) Long ago, in a lush valley in southern China, a young man named Chen Swee lived…
The Woman and Her Bear
The Woman and Her Bear (An Inuit Legend) Long ago in the far north, there lived a village of people known as Inuit. They lived…
A Living Chattle
GROHOLSKY embraced Liza, kept kissing one after another all her little fingers with their bitten pink nails, and laid her on the couch covered with…
The Amethyst Comb
MISS JANE CAREW was at the railroad station waiting for the New York train. She was about to visit her friend, Mrs. Viola Longstreet. With…
The Rhyming Pigs
The Rhyming Pigs (An English Tale) Once, long ago, pigs spoke in rhyme And their sweet pig language was oh so sublime, And hens strutted…
After The Theatre
NADYA ZELENIN had just come back with her mamma from the theatre where she had seen a performance of “Yevgeny Onyegin.” As soon as she…
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