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12 min read stories

Discover a collection of stories which are around 12 minutes read time.

9 min read

My Body, Herself

When the cave’s ceiling crumples, so do I. Through my body, stone kisses stone. I die.Afterward, footsteps pass by my head. I track them to the opposite...

13 min read

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried

A woman whose friend lays dying in a hospital—and weep, both because it's utterly devastating (yet somehow laugh-out-loud funny?)

11 min read

The new fable of the speedy sprite

One Monday Morning a rangy and well-conditioned Elfin of the Young Unmarried Set, yclept Loretta, emerged into the Sunlight and hit the Concrete Path with a...

11 min read

The new fable of the search for climate

* Story contains bad language

Once there was a Gentleman of the deepest dye who was all out of Kelter. He felt like a list of Symptoms on the outside of a Dollar Bottle. He looked like...

12 min read

The new fable of the intermittent fusser

* Story contains bad language

Once a grammar-school Rabbit, struggling from long Trousers toward his first brier-wood Pipe, had Growing Pains which he diagnosed as the pangs of True...

11 min read

Araby

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two...

11 min read

A Dark Brown Dog

A child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly...

14 min read

A Coward

Society called him Handsome Signoles. His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.An orphan, and possessed of an adequate income, he cut a dash, as the...

14 min read

The Chapel

Set in the tropical island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. This is a story of quick lust and long revenge - with an ironical twist at the end.

10 min read

The Glugs of Gosh - The Rhymes of Sym

* Story contains bad language

The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.

14 min read

Pawnarchy

This world is so wrong, and we must make it right.

11 min read

The Star Wife

High-feather wants a Star-Maiden for his wife... but should they live in the sky or on the ground?