Short stories around 5 minutes

Mr. & Mrs. Lee were going off for the day & left their two children John 10 yrs old & Alice 2 yrs old. The younger Lees went down cellar & began to rummage among the rubbish little...

Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva called on the Terrible Old Man, who lived all alone in a very ancient house near the sea. The Terrible Old Man is a strange person who keeps a collection...

None The moon shone down on the old garden where I wandered, and I saw unwonted ripples tipped with yellow light as the shallow crystal stream was drawn on in resistless currents to strange oceans...

It has long been vaguely understood that a man's clothes have an effect on his health, but no attempt has yet been made to reduce this knowledge to a systematic form. To treat ailments caused by...

The House of Lords began considering Clause 52,000 of the Education Bill, dealing with the teaching of Geometry in the schools. The Leader of the Government urged the Lords to accept the clause as...

You might think that borrowing a match upon the street is a simple thing, but any man who has ever tried it will assure you that it is not, and will be prepared to swear to the truth of my...

When I was the Editor of a Correspondence Column, I used to receive heart-broken letters from young men asking for advice and sympathy. I accepted their confidences as under the pledge of a...

The financial affairs of the parish church at Doogalville have been getting rather into a tangle in the last six months. To pay for a new pipe organ, they raised a mortgage on the parsonage, held a...

The progress of science is wonderful, but what I want to speak about is the progress of medicine. A hundred years ago there were no bacilli, ptomaine poisoning, diphtheria, or appendicitis. Rabies...

I mix a good deal with the Millionaires, I like their faces, their way of living, the things they eat, and their intellectual grasp. I love to walk up and down among them and catch the little...

Jiggins used to take a cold plunge every morning, stand and breathe at an open window for half an hour before dressing, and do Sandow exercises. He spent half the night slinging himself around his...

Like most other men I have from time to time been stricken with a desire to make collections of things. I began collecting postage stamps and made wonderful progress for three days, but then the...