Short stories around 8 minutes

Twenty years after moving to New York, he still remembered the rush of moving through hordes of people and the heat. He built a successful construction business and then moved into property...

Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, stopped the car in front of the building where his wife went to have her hair done, put on the gloves, and began fingering delicately a row of...

The children pressed to each other, dreaming of gold, yellow crayons and coins large enough to buy the world, but awoke to the tatting drum. Margot stood alone in the rain, staring at the...

Emma nervously entered the classroom and found an empty desk while she felt the burning power of a hundred sets of eyes staring. She expected the teasing and giggles, but she didn’t expect silence.

One beautiful June because cherry grove, nearly everything was asleep. Only the hens were not afraid of the heat and managed to kill time by scratching up the dry earth opposite the kitchen...

Benjamin was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was expected to become a minister of the Gospel. He worked hard all day and spent half the night in reading. Benjamin Reed left Boston at the age of...

A dutiful son went hunting with his bow and arrows, but his wife was a scold and kept finding fault with everyone. One day the Grouse said: "Don't shoot me", and so Helli dropped his arrow. Helli's...

The Emersons planned to get their children educated, and their son Ralph Waldo Emerson became a minister, a writer, and a lecturer. Ralph's father William Emerson wanted to be a musician but...

There was once a child who wondered if all the children on earth would die, would the flowers, the water, and the sky be sorry? The sister drooped and became so weak that she could no longer stand...

When I saw the announcement in the Times, I dropped the paper and sent the boy who cleans the boots and shoes. I hope and believe I am a quiet man. George Meek's wife's nurse, Mrs. Prodgit, held...

In the Green Dragon, a public-house near Westminster Bridge, everybody talks politics, every evening, and Mr. Robert Bolton is the great political authority. The hairdresser asked for a ten-pound...

A man may live and die in London without awakening any sympathy in the breast of any single person. He has long forgotten such thoughts, and has become mere passive creatures of habit and...