Where storytellers meet readers.

The prince was playing with some friends when a new barin came in and sat down on the divan. The barin hit one of the friends in the chest and the prince burst into laughter. Nekhliudof and the...

A coffee shop worker and night warden uses lies to connect with people, leading to misunderstandings and strained relationships.

A Buddy Holly tribute band hits trouble when the County Fair pitches its tents.

A boy is influenced by his father's unusual explanations.

Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but Daddy Folsom read a letter to Ricketts and laughed hysterically. Daddy Folsom returned to Lasham's cabin to relieve the watcher,...

King Francis was taken to Madrid by Emperor Charles V and kept there until Queen Marguerite was sent to him. Adrian VI found himself harder pressed by unsatisfied desire than he had ever been...

Everett was a healthy, clean-minded enthusiast who soon discovered that passengers not in the service of that king held aloof from the Belgians. Dr. Stewart rode his bicycle into a native village,...

With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.

I first saw the gentleman whose story I am going to tell through my glass partition. I conceived a very great aversion to that man the moment I thus saw him, and I hated him worse than ever the...

A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.

On a morning in May, we left the horse car in Charlesbridge and walked down the street to our new home. It was quiet and we learned to know the several voices of the cows pastured in the vacant...

Jim Shorthouse was stranded high and dry in a large American city, and he went to find living quarters. One night he came home tired after a long day's work, and heard someone unlock his door and...