Category: Short Stories (1)

Imagine how hard it is to break up asphalt with a pickaxe Now imagine it s not even a very good pickaxe And you ve been doing it for days The sun hotter now mak...
🕘 Updated on: November 28, 2022

It was a dark, starless night. We were becalmed in the Northern Pacific. Our exact position I do not know...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

I HAD always thought Jack Gisburn rather a cheap genius--though a good fellow enough--so it was no great surprise to me to hear that...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had g...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

My father was a St. Bernard; my mother was a collie; but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me. I do not know these nice distin...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

"Iceland is the most beautiful land the sun doth shine upon," said Sigurd Sigurdson to his two sons...
🕘 Updated on: October 22, 2024

With England involved in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and her big battleship Argyll actively engaged...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

The snow on the ground around Lavery's camp was six feet ...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

Hatch sat on the bank, watching the yellow waste of water swirling by, and wishing to Heaven...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

I believe that story of yours, senator. You tell me that while you two North Americans were...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

Having laid my last hope beneath heavy flowers, I had drifted back to the village of my youth...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

Queen Alizonde leaned her head against her casement for so long that her ring-jewels became...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022

Two people who had once.loved —or thought they loved—had been dead and buried for three years...
🕘 Updated on: December 23, 2022