Short stories around 18 minutes

Mr. Jonas went to a begging expedition to raise money for a family in extremely indigent circumstances. His neighbor Prescott suggested that Gardiner may be glad to obtain the situation, but the...

Martin Green was confident of his own power to stand safely in the midst of temptation. Martin Green, at the age of twenty-one, went to an eating and drinking saloon where he made acquaintances...

After ten years in a large metropolitan city, the Baron Holbein retired to his estate in a beautiful and fertile valley, far away from the sounds of political rancor. Jennet Fleury accepted the...

Mrs. Cartwright's parlor carpet was beginning to look shabby, so she bought a new one for forty dollars to cancel a loan made by a friend. Mr. Cartwright called at the blind-maker's and found a...

Madeline Henry's father left the world and its business cares behind him and began his business life at the age of twenty-two. Mr. Leslie became reserved towards others, assumed a statelier step,...

Day after day I worked at my life-task, and I felt oppressed and paralyzed by the. I went home with a perturbed spirit, and soon passed into the land of dreams, but my thoughts went on in the same...

Frederick Williams said to Charles Lawson that he was penniless and could not imagine gaining his father's consent to a marriage. Charles Lawson approached Caroline and removed her from school. She...

Payson's old friend, Wightman, had failed in business several years before, and was now living somewhere in Old Town in a very poor way. Payson asked the clerk to send him a check for five hundred...

A man who had been bedridden for years said to a poor cripple to give him a lesson every day and unlock the doors of a mind that now sits in darkness. On the next day the cripple came to the sick...

Belle Carpenter had dark skin, grey eyes and thick lips, and worked in the millinery shop kept by Mrs. Nate McHugh. She occasionally walked out with George Willard, and let him kiss her to relieve...

The old man told me that the actress was his sister-in-law, and that he loved a girl who worked in the office of the factory where he was. The three people sat in silence for an hour or two before...

Hanley Turner found a nigger we knew, Bildad, who liked horses and told us about things to eat and places to sleep. We went to the races with Bildad and kept still. A lot of men from home were at...