Time--Present Place--New York Cast of characters-- Nunkie Too-Sweet Peckerwood Black Baby Sack Daddy Tush Hawg Aunt Dilsey SCENE-- ... Read more
African American Literature Short Stories
Total Stories: 29
The Negro population of the little Southern town of Danvers was in a state of excitement such as ... Read more
Martha Maria Mixon was a “widder lady.” So she described herself whenever anyone asked her as to her ... Read more
It was June, and nearing the closing time of school. The air was full of the sound of ... Read more
It took something just short of a revolution to wake up the sleepy little town of Miltonville. Through ... Read more
The law is usually supposed to be a stern mistress, not to be lightly wooed, and yielding only ... Read more
Slowly, one by one, the lights in the French Opera go out, until there is but a single ... Read more
Now and then Carnival time comes at the time of the good Saint Valentine, and then sometimes it ... Read more
It was cold that day. The great sharp north-wind swept out Elysian Fields Street in blasts that made ... Read more
“Gimme fi’ cents worth o’ candy, please.” It was the little Jew girl who spoke, and Tony’s wife ... Read more
When the sun goes down behind the great oaks along the Bayou Teche near Franklin, it throws red ... Read more
Sister Josepha told her beads mechanically, her fingers numb with the accustomed exercise. The little organ creaked a ... Read more
