Owen Bentley was feeling embarrassed. He looked at Mr Sheppherd, and with difficulty restrained himself from standing on ... Read more
Comic Fiction Short Stories
Total Stories: 54
Although this story is concerned principally with the Man and the Maid, the Miasma pervades it to such ... Read more
Historians of the social life of the later Roman Empire speak of a certain young man of Ariminum, ... Read more
I think one of the rummiest affairs I was ever mixed up with, in the course of a ... Read more
Crossing the Thames by Chelsea Bridge, the wanderer through London finds himself in pleasant Battersea. Rounding the Park, ... Read more
Doesn’t some poet or philosopher fellow say that it’s when our intentions are best that we always make ... Read more
Paul Boielle was a waiter. The word ‘waiter’ suggests a soft-voiced, deft-handed being, moving swiftly and without noise ... Read more
The young man came into the club-house. There was a frown on his usually cheerful face, and he ... Read more
Have you ever thought about–and, when I say thought about, I mean really carefully considered the question of–the ... Read more
The clock struck five–briskly, as if time were money. Ruth Warden got up from her desk and, having ... Read more
Well-meaning chappies at the club sometimes amble up to me and tap me on the wishbone, and say ... Read more
It was the holiday season, and during the holidays the Greens Committees have decided that the payment of ... Read more