Literature

Frogs Flee the Wind (An Australian Legend) Long ago, during Dreamtime, the spirits were singing songs, creating all the creatures of the Earth. The world…

Glooscap’s Rain (An Algonquian Indian Tale) Glooscap is a spirit, a medicine man, a sorcerer. Glooscap created all the animals. He made them be peaceful…

I “Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never know it.” The assertion laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden,…

Gabriel-Ernest by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “There is a wild beast in your woods,” said the artist Cunningham, as he was being driven to the station.…

Hands by Sherwood Anderson Upon the half decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the edge of a ravine near the town…

Long ago in the city of Rome, the Jews who lived there studied the Torah, their sacred scriptures, every day. They loved their studies and…

Chapter I His name was Yura. He was six years old, and the world was to him enormous, alive and bewitchingly mysterious. He knew the…

LYUBOV GRIGORYEVNA, a substantial, buxom lady of forty who undertook matchmaking and many other matters of which it is usual to speak only in whispers,…

I By the light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written…

The charming Vanda, or, as she was described in her passport, the “Honourable Citizen Nastasya Kanavkin,” found herself, on leaving the hospital, in a position…

PHENISTONE ROAD, CLAPHAM. August 20th, 190… I have had what I believe to be the most remarkable day in my life, and while the events…

Pyotr Petrovitch Strizhin, the nephew of Madame Ivanov, the colonel’s widow the man whose new goloshes were stolen last year, came home from a christening…