Short stories around 10 minutes

Ah-Yen told me one winter's evening that he had met with a great sorrow. Fifty-Six was a student at the university, but he was going out into society and was wearing seven shirts a week. Ah-Yen...

They were both successful business men and had fallen into conversation while waiting for their order. One of them was saying that he would never forget his first few years in this town, and the...

The Pleasant Family invites a few friends to spend a Quiet Evening, and the Jolly Maiden Aunt propounds the query: What is the difference between an elephant and a silk hat? The Jolly Aunt reads...

She was too good for him, yet still she did not regret marrying him. They went to live in Scargill Street, and he showed her how to put a newspaper on the table for a cloth. The men were out...

A queer little tale, about the eccentric behavior of a strange guest in a country hotel I have not yet met the man in No. 212, and I wonder if he has come here for a rest, too. The pale man must be...

In giving this brief account of my childhood, I thought back to those who taught me to observe. I was born in a pleasant old colonial house built near 1750, and grew up hearing stories of three...

After the event, my mind dealt with the poor man in helpless conjecture, and I ceased to notice him. I lost myself in my work with a kind of humid interest in the psychological inquiry of a...

Blennerhassett was a generous victim of a cold and selfish man's ambition. He built a mansion which became the wonder of the West, but Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel and worshipped...

Since 1812, most Ohio stories have been about business enterprise and industrial adventure, but tragedies and comedies often arise from them. The Standard Oil Company had its rise in Ohio, and the...

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...

Giddings was born in Athens, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and liked to "turn himself out to grass". Wade was born in Massachusetts in 1800, and was frank, but kind at heart. Thomas Ewing was a citizen of...

A circus was held in the old Roman arena of beautiful Verona, and the chief event was a reproduction of a tournament that had recently been held at Rome. The clowns were very amusing, and one spoke...