The Bridal March
There lived last century, in one of the high-lying inland valleys of Norway, a fiddler, who has become in some degree a legendary personage. Of…
Literature
An Engineer’s Story
His name, sir, was Matthew Price; mine is Benjamin Hardy. We were born within a few days of each other; bred up in the same…
A Story Of Salome
A few years ago, no matter how many, I, Harcourt Blunt, was travelling with my friend Coventry Turnour, and it was on the steps of…
A Clever Thief
I A certain man, named Hari-Sarman, who lived in a little village in India, where there were no rich people and everyone had to work…
The Family Of The Vourdalak
In the year 1815 all the great heads of Europe were gathered in Vienna: the continent’s brightest minds and most brilliant diplomats. Our tale begins…
Anansi Meets the Queen
Anansi Meets the Queen (A Tale From the Caribbean) Everyone knows Anansi, half-man, half spider. Everyone knows Anansi always plays tricks. Everyone knows Tiger did…
The Child’s Story
The Child’s Story by Charles Dickens Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveler, and he set out upon a…
The Real And The Make-Believe
On his way down-town Phillips stopped at a Subway news-stand and bought all the morning papers. He acknowledged that he was vastly excited. As he…
Esme
Esme by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “All hunting stories are the same,” said Clovis; “just as all Turf stories are the same, and all–” “My hunting…
Max Hensig
Besides the departmental men on the New York Vulture, there were about twenty reporters for general duty, and Williams had worked his way up till…
The North Wind’s Malice
It had snowed during the night, but toward morning it had grown cold; now the sled-runners complained and the load dragged heavily. Folsom, who had…
A Father’s Day Dream
A Father’s Day Dream “There are Falcons and Ravens, Cardinals and Eagles,” Boy said to brother Bear while out biking. “But I don’t mean birds,…
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