Short stories around 33 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

Sandra performed her little charade in front of the mirror and morphed into the Gisela character on a whim. She had a small tickle of flirtatious laughter down pat.

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...

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...

My first appointment was to a West of England district largely peopled with my personal friends and connections. I transferred to a new beat in the North and lived with a couple of small farmers...

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...

Benjamin Hardy was apprenticed to a Birmingham iron-master and began a new life taking trial trips with the locomotives. Our landlady was the widow of a silver-worker, and had more lovers than she...

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...