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Connecting writers with a new audience, and readers with new short stories.

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The Devil's Heir

A good old canon of Notre Dame de Paris gave himself up earnestly to the confessing of ladies, made money with holy water, and had three heirs, but his heart had cracked a little. One evening the...

33 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Ionitch

Visitors to the provincial town complained of the dreariness and monotony of life, but Ivan Petrovitch showed his talents and made epigrams, riddles and answered them himself. II Startsev kept...

35 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

The Bridal of Carrigvarah

In a sequestered district of the county of Limerick, there stood my early life, some forty years ago, a strong stone building, half castle, half farm-house. O'Mara turned upon Dwyer and gazed upon...

53 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Fund Day

A cautionary tale for anyone considering involvement in high finance.

2 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Often cited as the first detective story. The genre arrives pretty much fully formed: a brilliant detective, the bumbing police officer and

70 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Storyboard

He documented his facial expressions, traced pathways with his finger, mimed the resulting sequences, and waited for something to fill the blank spaces behind.

< 1 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Dick Boyle's Business Card

Dick Boyle approached the waiting stage coach, but the young lady was already walking towards it. Miss Julia Cantire was getting down from the coach, and Dick Boyle quietly slipped from the back to...

50 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

The Bell In The Fog

A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.

46 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family

I wept more bitterly, because my father had never seemed to love, and I learned that my sister was dead. When I reached the age of sixteen, my mother's plans began to develop, and we moved to...

73 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts

Twenty ladies and five hundred gentleman sat in a row in the hall, and Dr. Turner's theories were accepted at once. August Bopp, the new leader of the class, invented huskings, apple-bees,...

65 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Ohio As A Part Of France

The Miami Indians were Aztecs in the ages before history began, and the Frenchmen who visited them were sent by the governor of Canada to lay claim to the Ohio valley for his king. The Miamis...

13 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Bertha the Penitent

The Sire Imbert de Bastarnay had no confidence in the female of man, but found Bertha really a maiden and got her with a child two months after marriage. Bastarnay was not a smart young fellow of...

61 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story