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Read classic short stories by world famous authors.
A Dark Brown Dog By Stephen Crane

The love of a Brown Dog

THE TELL-TALE HEART By Edgar Allan Poe

A classic short story in the horror genre, in which a murderer tries to convince the reader of his sanity in the wake of his crimes.

The Monkey's Paw By W. W. Jacobs

Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it....

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -Part II of II By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Conclusion of a life lived in reverse - a classic short by an American master of short stories and novels.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Part I of II By F. Scott Fitzgerald

A life is lived in reverse....

A Worn Path By Eudora Alice Welty

It was December—a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag, coming along a path...

RIPPLE - THE LITTLE WATER SPIRIT By Louisa May Alcott

ABOUT A LITTLE WATER SPIRIT WHO LOVES DANCING

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty By James Grover Thurber

Classic short story which inspired the hit movie...(first published in The New Yorker, 1939)...

Free Radicals By Alice Munro

A great classic short to honor a great writer of short stories, Alice Munroe, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Nobel Prize to be given for a short story.

The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin

Famous author, Kate Chopin's, classic short story, The Story of an Hour.

The Declaration of Independence By Washington Irving

Classic short retelling of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

FATE By H. H. Munro

Sometimes we have the power to make our own fate... if we see the opportunity to do so and then seize it. But if we change fate do we alter our universe? Perhaps!

The Ghost in the Crosstrees By Frank Norris

Fortunes are at risk because of a mysterious apparition scaring off the crew of a vessel about to embark on its expedition.

The Tabby Terror By P. G. Wodehouse

A tabby with a penchant for thievery, upsets his neighbors, eventually wearing out his welcome at home, but setting himself up for a new one.

A Fight With A Cannon By Victor Hugo

Famous short story writer, Victor Hugo, describes, with supreme adeptness, a scene of carnage and terror as it occurs aboard a ship at sea, with a loose cannon taking all in its path.

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