Venus Annodomini And the years went on as the years must do; But our great Diana was always new Fresh, and blooming, and blonde, and fair, With…
What You Want What You Want by O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted…
A Little Journey She’d paid good money to see the inevitable… and then had to work to make it happen! There were two important things one, that she…
The Huntsman The Huntsman by Anton Chekhov A SULTRY, stifling midday. Not a cloudlet in the sky. . . . The sun-baked grass had a disconsolate, hopeless…
The Pendulum Up and down, back and forth, up and down. First the quick flite skyward, gradually slowing, reaching the pinnacle of the curve, poising a moment,…
Through The Fire The Policeman rode through the Himalayan forest, under the moss-draped oaks, and his orderly trotted after him. ‘It’s an ugly business, Bhere Singh,’ said the…
A Hanging It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail…
Thrown Away “And some are sulky, while some will plunge (So ho! Steady! Stand still, you!) Some you must gentle, and some you must lunge. (There! There!…
Spilling The Spanish Beans The Spanish war has probably produced a richer crop of lies than any event since the Great War of 1914-18, but I honestly doubt, in…
Wee Willie Winkie “An officer and a gentleman.” His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was…
Watches Of The Night “What is in the Brahmin’s books that is in the Brahmin’s heart. Neither you nor I knew there was so much evil in the world.”…
Shooting An Elephant In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people the only time in my life that I have been important enough…