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The Mockingbird by Ambrose Bierce The time, a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the early autumn of 1861. The place, a forest’s heart in the mountain…

It was autumn. For some hours I had been strolling across country with my gun, and should probably not have returned till evening to the…

In another millennium, in a synagogue in Jerusalem, there lived a simple man, a shammas by trade. The shammas was the person responsible for cleaning…

Yes, gentlemen, I killed him! In vain do you try to obtain for me a medical certificate of temporary aberration. I shall not take advantage…

“That school-teacher from Acton is coming to-day,” said the elder Miss Gill, Sophia. “So she is,” assented the younger Miss Gill, Amanda. “I have decided…

A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker Please, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won’t ask anything else…

The large hall of the principal club of one of our provincial towns was packed with people. Every box, every seat in pit and stalls…

I At times Sashka wished to give up what is called living: to cease to wash every morning in cold water, on which thin sheets…

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.…