Short stories around 89 minutes

The Reverend Ernest Lindley, aged twenty-seven, was first vicar of Aldecross. On Sunday morning, the whole family went down the lane to church. Mr Lindley went down to Aldecross with a packet of...

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...

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...

Hewson was confronted with an apparition and dramatized the scene at breakfast. He got hardily back into bed and waited for the repetition. Hewson came up to the cottage and perceived a...

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 traveller went to Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty, where a shadowy train went by him. A gentleman instantly closed with a proposal. Barbox Brothers eyed me with great...

The little housemaid is awakened from her reverie by her friend Jane Adams to see the breakfast table spread forth in state, and tears have given place to smiles. Two young children are among the...