Short stories around 56 minutes

Chu Chu, a Californian mustang, danced well, yet was not unduly excited by the plaudits of the crowd or his evident success with the fair. I left uncle making a call on a parishioner next door, and...

Uncle Billy was going away one day, and Uncle Jim gravely took a pill. Uncle Billy retorted: - . Uncle Jim knew perfectly well that Uncle Billy had regularly once a week declared his final...

A wind is scudding over the steppe, and oxen are drawing wagon-loads of threshed grain through rich. A needy native of Tula salutes each Cossack, and a woman sits engaged in embroidering a blue...

Gubin was in a tavern, where I first saw him. He reminded me of a homeless dog, and his words caused his lips to bare stumps and gums amid which they lost their way, became disintegrated...

Malva was coming, and Vassili kept asking Iakov questions. Iakov felt particularly uneasy when Malva said in a mocking tone, and his face took on a hard expression before Malva. Malva returned with...

The wind was charged with moist, salt spray and caused the rocks to rumble angrily and the trees to rustle. A man with a black beard and a brigand's dark eyes was gazing at the Crucifix with a...

The timber-built town of Buev lies huddled upon a hillock above the river Obericha. Its original founders were the menials of a landowner named Tolmachev. Life in Tolmachikha is quiet and...

A man with a lean threw overboard a polished log as the third-class passengers engaged in drinking either tea or beer. A passenger in a buff pea-jacket approached the sally-port and swung his arm...

The sky is clouded by the dark smoke rising from the harbor, but the voices of the men can be heard. An old jail-bird appeared among them, and a broad-shouldered and stupid looking boy rose to meet...

A gang of seven carpenters were hastily repairing an icebreaker when the foreman gave a complacent click of his tongue. Ossip turned to himself, and his senior co-members insulted him by making my...

Silas Hickler was eminently a man of judgment. He fell to upon the biscuits with evident gusto and talked little. Silas creeped into the sitting-room, cut the rope holding the umbrella to the...

Mr. Pembury was not pleased when Pratt was ushered into his compartment, but Pratt smiled grimly and said he must be eliminated. Pembury set forth from the hotel with a definite purpose, bought a...