Short stories around 23 minutes

Tub had been waiting for an hour in the falling snow. He jumped back and ran for the steps of the building. They left Spokane and drove deep into the country, stopping twice for coffee. They hunted...

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...

The barkentine Mohawk was through the Atlantic Doldrums and the skipper felt as light-hearted as a boy. The morning was hot, but a fine breeze prevented discomfort. Two strange figures climbed over...

The West India hurricane of August, 1893, caused great havoc among shipping on the Atlantic seaboard from Florida to Maine. The captain finished filling his pipe with fragments of tobacco. Two...

The Lochleven lay becalmed in the south-east trades of the Pacific, where thousands of turtles assemble, lay their eggs in the sand, and then float away with the current. Howard. Captain Stafford...

Alice and I were seated at the breakfast-table in our rambling old house on the outskirts of the French quarter in New Orleans when Ralph called to say that the Sea Witch had been chartered to load...

Many years ago I was mate of the little schooner Dicky Bird and the captain told a lot of lies that the mate swallowed like an albacore. The next day was fine and we had a first rate dinner. Prince...

One can grow good crops on land that has been fertilized by the ash from the trees that grew on it. Mateo Falcone had earned himself a great reputation. One autumn day, his son Fortunato was lying...

I have often wondered if most people ever pause to reflect upon their dreams, and the obscure world they belong to. Joe Slater was a typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, but his...

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...

I saw him on a sleepless night when I was walking desperately to save my soul and my vision. I used to wander alone among the cryptical windings. A man came upon me at about two one cloudy August...

Eliot thought Pickman was crazy, but he was lucky to be sane. I should have known you wouldn't have dropped Pickman for the same silly reasons that fussy old women like Dr. Reid or Joe Minot or...