Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery was published in 1948 and it is not in the public domain. ... Read more
Psychological Fiction Short Stories
Total Stories: 35
In the darkest and humblest corner of Ustinya Fyodorovna’s flat lived Semyon Ivanovitch Prohartchin, a well-meaning elderly man, ... Read more
I began to scrutinize the man closely. Even in his exterior there was something so peculiar that it ... Read more
Ive found a lot more things, her cousin said to her the day after the second funeral; theyre ... Read more
THIS could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak–the sea entering ... Read more
I There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts, the chief, was short and ... Read more
A desperate tale THAT year I spent the best two months of the dry season on one of ... Read more
We were driving along the road from Treguier to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot between the ... Read more
An Ironic Tale MR. X came to me, preceded by a letter of intro- duction from a good ... Read more
CHAPTER I While we were hanging about near the water’s edge, as sailors idling ashore will do (it ... Read more
This tale, episode, experience–call it how you will–was related in the fifties of the last century by a ... Read more
Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not ... Read more
