Short stories around 10 minutes

Before we start, don't judge me, and don't go running to your mother. I'll talk to her myself when the time is right. The burning inside comes in the morning, before the light, and at night, when I...

Twenty years after moving to New York, he still remembered the rush of moving through hordes of people and the heat. He built a successful construction business and then moved into property...

Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, stopped the car in front of the building where his wife went to have her hair done, put on the gloves, and began fingering delicately a row of...

The children pressed to each other, dreaming of gold, yellow crayons and coins large enough to buy the world, but awoke to the tatting drum. Margot stood alone in the rain, staring at the...

Julissa Ye relished her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown's last small, locally-owned bookstore, where she was immediately embraced by the other two part-timers. Julissa admired how Mrs. Davis...

Emma nervously entered the classroom and found an empty desk while she felt the burning power of a hundred sets of eyes staring. She expected the teasing and giggles, but she didn’t expect silence.

A lone sedan entered the parking lot of the processing plant and went dark. Jasper Cane wanted to be a better father and decided to hike the trail with Carl.

It was the early evening in the small farming community of Sunlight County when the stranger came knocking.

A boy keeps meeting a rat who promises they will soon be married.

One beautiful June because cherry grove, nearly everything was asleep. Only the hens were not afraid of the heat and managed to kill time by scratching up the dry earth opposite the kitchen...

HEMPEL watched the hands of the clock make all the motions of the hour, and he fixed his mind on the women. But his wife alarmed him by laughing softly and long, and then abruptly kissing him, and...

Benjamin was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was expected to become a minister of the Gospel. He worked hard all day and spent half the night in reading. Benjamin Reed left Boston at the age of...