Short stories around 30 minutes

On the first day of ninth grade, Fitzhugh Hardee Rainwater met the girl who immediately took up permanent residence deep in his heart.

Ensconced in bed reading his history textbook, Delphus McManus was startled when the phone rang. - Length: 20 pages

What happened at Devil’s Cape no longer surprised anyone. At least once a year, a body washed ashore.

A child called Minnikin conquers three trolls to save two captured princesses.

Emperor Peter the First came to inspect an insane asylum, and the two young men who brought the patient felt little inclination to laugh. The patient became terror stricken when they took him to...

I recollected how I knocked a little young soldier's gun out of his hands and struck him with the bayonet, but I caught a glimpse of something blue, which must have been the sky.I was wounded in...

Artie Cherry appeared, wore gray clothes, and Wooden followed him admiringly. Lulu accepted his silver cigar-case without looking at him. Artie Cherry went home early that evening and felt glad. He...

George Barnard helped me to pay for a little cheap schooling four nights a week, where I first saw Leah Payne. After I talked with George in the yard, he shook my hand off and stamped with his iron...

FREDERICK GEORGE BYNG was welcomed by the Archduke Charles and Gustav von Lichtenstein, but the Archduke John wanted boldness and erred on the side of over-caution. The famous battle of Hohenlinden...

The Seneca is remarkable for the "Wandering Jew" and the "Lake Gun". Fuller was not slow to profit by this hint, and he and a strangely-assorted companion cruised up and down the Seneca for a week,...

The eclipse of the sun occurred in the summer of 1806, on Monday. Many prophecies regarding the weather were made. The sky was serene and cloudless, and the sun rose into view. I caught a glimpse...

Noank is a little played-out fishing town on the southeastern coast of Connecticut. Charlie Potter is contented, works at a shipyard, and gives his rubber boots away to old drunken Jimmy...