Read Short Story Classics
"...How can you talk of going to war—to be killed—to me? And now, now that you have made me love you so?"
Sad story about how the thoughtlessness of one young woman with everything forever altered the life of another young woman living in poverty.
Tragic tale of one who gave their all for love of another, whose sacrifice was never known nor appreciated by the one for whom all was given.
The most famous baseball fan from Boston to Baltimore attends his last game to cheer on his protege...
Sad story about a man with wanderlust and his faithful wife who follows his lead without question and suffers in silence his poor life and business decisions...
It was the day before Thanksgiving. The brief cloudy November afternoon was fast merging into early twilight. The trees, now gaunt and bare, creaked and groaned ...
A young artist's life hangs in the balance, held as precariously as the last leaf that clings to the vine outside her window...
A classic short story by famous author, Jack London, about a man struggling to survive in the Alaskan wilderness.
Classic tale about an encounter between man and beast, each doing what comes naturally. Only one of them survives.
A selfish giant has a change of heart, which makes all the difference for the children in his land, and for himself as well.
Tom Walker makes a deal with the devil to acquire a pirates treasure and fortune, but later in life has second thoughts as he contemplates the hereafter...
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 distinctions myself....
Classic short story of the sighs and whispers of wandering souls and lovers who inhabit this house...