Short stories around 83 minutes

Dr Macphail lit his pipe and searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. The crowd made their way to a great shed of corrugated iron where they stood for some time and then were joined by Mr...

I wept more bitterly, because my father had never seemed to love, and I learned that my sister was dead. When I reached the age of sixteen, my mother's plans began to develop, and we moved to...

The sunset struck the leafless trees to the westward and I tried to recall personalities. Then I saw a man throwing stones into the water and I thought of an ex-recruit. Tedham hesitated, and I...

One of the family chose deliberately to stay at home, but the eagerness with which all the passengers rise as soon as the locomotive begins to slow is inspiring. The excursionists fall into great...

The Ewberts came to live in Hilbrook shortly after Hilbrook University was established, and from the first she complained that the Rixonites were cold. Ewbert went to see Hilbrook, who lived alone...

We first met Glendenning on the Canadian boat, but Mrs. March clutched my arm and bade me not speak a word. The older of these ladies was a tall, handsome matron, and she accepted my chair in the...

Matthew Lanfear stopped off at San Remo in the interest of a friend, and was greeted by Miss Gerald, who took her hand from her father's arm and swept up the gravelled path between him and...

In 1858, Fiddletown considered Mrs. Tretherick a very pretty woman with only two blemishes: her left cheek bore a small scar left by a single drop of vitriol. Mrs. Tretherick opened the door,...

The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes when two human figures appeared on the bank of a hidden channel. They each carried a gun and one was a young girl. Boone Culpepper held an invincible...

Peter was a man who understood life, knew men, wore good and yet exceedingly mussy clothes, and loved life. He pitied ignorance and necessity, and was intense, nervous, rapid-talking,...

I met my prospective host in his stables, which contained every type of fashionable vehicle and sixty or seventy of the worst horses. A lean and haughty-looking individual walked in and remarked...

A young gentleman with a velvet-like countenance overset his bread and spoke to two or three young ladies of his acquaintance. At a quadrille party, the bashful young gentleman always remains near...