The Well Of The World’s End
One day the mother of a little girl named Lily suddenly died. Her father remarried, but Lily’s stepmother was as unkind as could be. The…
Literature
Under The Deck Awnings
“Can any man a gentleman, I mean call a woman a pig?” The little man flung this challenge forth to the whole group, then leaned…
Counting Stars
Counting Stars (A Tale From Italy) Once upon a time there lived a monk whose every prayer always seemed to be answered, no matter what…
One Of Twins
A Letter found among the Papers of the late Mortimer Barr You ask me if in my experience as one of a pair of twins…
The Laughter of the Deer
The Laughter of the Deer (A Native North American Tale) Long ago, when the world was new, the wolves often gathered in a circle in…
The Interlopers
The Interlopers by H.H. Munro (SAKI) In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter…
One Of The Missing
Jerome Searing, a private soldier of General Sherman’s army, then confronting the enemy at and about Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, turned his back upon a small…
The Hand
The Hand by Guy de Maupassant All were crowding around M. Bermutier, the judge, who was giving his opinion about the Saint-Cloud mystery. For a…
The White Silence
‘Carmen won’t last more than a couple of days.’ Mason spat out a chunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her…
The Applicant
Pushing his adventurous shins through the deep snow that had fallen overnight, and encouraged by the glee of his little sister, following in the open…
The Lumber Room
The Lumber Room by H.H. Munro (SAKI) The children were to be driven, as a special treat, to the sands at Jagborough. Nicholas was not…
The Hypnotist
By those of my friends who happen to know that I sometimes amuse myself with hypnotism, mind reading and kindred phenomena, I am frequently asked…
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