Morse found it nerve-racking to cross the St. Jude grounds just as the school was being dismissed, because ... Read more
English Short Stories
Total Stories: 4207
I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside ... Read more
Tub had been waiting for an hour in the falling snow. He paced the sidewalk to keep warm ... Read more
When I had a house in Sri Lanka, my parents came out one winter to see me. Originally ... Read more
“Heresy,” he told me. The brackish waters of his pool sloshed gently. “Another one?” I said wearily. “There ... Read more
_In Memory of C.D.K._ On Christmas Eve around 1942, when I was a boy, after having the traditional ... Read more
One of These Days is a great short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Unfortunately, the story was first ... Read more
It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, “I drank too much last night.” You might ... Read more
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. ... Read more
“Eighty-first street–let ’em out, please,” yelled the shepherd in blue. A flock of citizen sheep scrambled out and ... Read more
The crowd gathered to make a curious noise this cold grey morning before the scheduled Birth. They arrived ... Read more
Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no ... Read more
