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Short stories around 17 minutes

Explore captivating short stories around 17 minutes and indulge in the rich narratives of this curated collection. Immerse yourself in a world of imagination.

The Falls

Morse crossed the St. Jude grounds just as the school was being dismissed, hoping Aldo Cummings wouldn't collar him. When Robert got home, he would make a new cardboard keyboard for him to practice...

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

Missing

The steward asked the mate and bo's'un how the two negroes had managed to escape. The St. Lawrence was a neat little ship, and Captain Fairley was one of the finest men I ever met. His daughter...

16 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Life-Savers

Captain Litchfield, keeper of the life-saving station, thought of the Peruvian as a bitter north-easter raged outside. The men at Fourth Cliff Station sighted a large brig close-hauled and...

17 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Cool Air

You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; I can only say that in the spring of 1923 I had a heart attack in the hall room above mine. Dr. Muoz was a man of birth, cultivation,...

17 min read · Rating: NC-17 · Read story

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Sir Arthur Jermyn burned himself after seeing a boxed object from Africa, and was placed in a madhouse. His wild stories of Africa led to his friends to deem him mad, and he died three years...

18 min read · Rating: R · Read story

From Beyond

Crawford Tillinghast changed into a maniac after answering my remonstrances. He drove me from his laboratory and his house in a burst of fanatical rage. Within twenty-four hours, a machine near the...

15 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Hypnos

A man was unconscious in a railway station, so I told him to come home with me and be my teacher and leader in unfathomable mysteries. We studied in the tower studio chamber of the old manor-house...

14 min read · Rating: R · Read story

In The Vault

George Birch was crass, thoughtless, careless, and liquorish. He changed his business and acquired a limitation, yet never discussed the case. Birch began transferring bodies one disagreeable April...

17 min read · Rating: R · Read story

Old Bugs

Sheehan's Pool Room is not a nice place, but there was a man named Old Bugs who shared the squalor and filth. He was not pleasing to look upon and made remarks which the folk of Sheehan's deemed...

15 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Sweet Ermengarde

Ermengarde Stubbs, a beauteous blonde daughter of Hiram Stubbs, was sought in matrimony by two ardent lovers, Squire Hardman and Jack Manly. Jack would go to the great city and make a fortune to...

14 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Alchemist

High up on a swelling mount, crowned with grassy summit, stands the old chateau of my ancestors. My parents I never knew, and I spent my childhood in poring over the ancient tomes that filled the...

18 min read · Rating: R · Read story

The Crawling Chaos

De Quincey was drawn back into Asia and took opium in the year of the plague. He was partly delirious and experienced an overdose. Suddenly my pain ceased, and I began to associate the pounding...

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