Short stories around 5 minutes
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Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months
My child, I have brought you up with anxiety and tenderness, and have chosen your food with care to keep you free from gross humours and to render you an agreeable child. I have prevented you from...
A Baffled Ambuscade
For months after the big battle at Stone River, there was constant quarrel between detachments of cavalry on the turnpike connecting Readyville and Woodbury. One night a squadron of Federal horse...
A Bivouac of the Dead
In the heart of the Allegheny mountains, in Pocahontas county, West Virginia, is a beautiful little valley through which flows the east fork of the Greenbrier river. There is a post office in a...
A Cold Greeting
A man named James H. Conway brought a note of introduction from Mr. Lawrence Barting to Benson Foley, who had known Barting as a captain in the Federal army during the civil war. Conway told Foley...
A Fruitless Assignment
Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, was seen by crowds passing by a vacant dwelling in Vine street. Some braver individuals ventured to stand upon the doorsteps to intercept them, but were...
A Man with Two Lives
David William Duck related his queer story as "Dead Duck". In the autumn of 1866, I was traveling by night with important dispatches to Fort C. F. Smith, when I was awakened by the report of a...
An Arrest
Orrin Brower of Kentucky, a fugitive from justice, escaped from the county jail by knocking down his jailer with an iron bar, robbing him of his keys and walking out into the night. He got lost in...
An Imperfect Conflagration
One June morning in 1872, I murdered my father after dividing the proceeds of a burglary. The music-box brought disaster and disgrace upon our family, and caused my father to commit the only...
At Old Man Eckert's
Philip Eckert lived in an old, weather-stained wooden house about three miles from the little town of Marion, in Vermont. "Old Man Eckert", as he was always called, was not of a sociable...
A Vine on a House
Three miles from Norton, Missouri, stands an old house that was last occupied by a family named Harding. It is now a picturesque ruin, partly concealed by a large vine. Robert Harding, his wife...
A Wireless Message
Mr. William Holt, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, had "trouble with his wife" in the summer of 1896, and has related the incident to at least one person without exacting a pledge of secrecy. A...
Charles Ashmore's Trail
Christian Ashmore, his wife, his mother, two grown daughters, and a son of sixteen years, lived in Troy, New York. The Ashmores moved from Troy to Richmond, Indiana, and then to Quincy, Illinois,...