“One thousand dollars,” repeated Lawyer Tolman, solemnly and severely, “and here is the money.” Young Gillian gave a ... Read more
Surprise Endings Short Stories
Total Stories: 258
Now, a Christmas story should be one. For a good many years the ingenious writers have been putting ... Read more
It was with much caution that Whistling Dick slid back the door of the box-car, for Article 5716, ... Read more
Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking ... Read more
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not ... Read more
In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small ... Read more
The Blue Light Drug Store is downtown, between the Bowery and First Avenue, where the distance between the ... Read more
Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick ... Read more
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved ... Read more
The first time my optical nerves was disturbed by the sight of Buckingham Skinner was in Kansas City. ... Read more
It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama–Bill ... Read more
At midnight the cafe was crowded. By some chance the little table at which I sat had escaped ... Read more
