Short stories around 9 minutes

On there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. Two sculptors lived there, Kalos and Musides, and Saios would remain at home. Musides sought the banquet halls of Tegea at night, whilst...

Mr. Scalper sits writing in the reporters' room of The Daily Eclipse and opens a letter of a correspondent. Mr. Scalper stops abruptly, dashes across the room to the cupboard, and returns to finish...

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...

Lord Oxhead sat gazing fixedly at the library fire, absorbed in his sorrow. Gwendoline Oxhead had thrown herself about the earl's neck and explained that her lover was an American. She placed an...

Ah-Yen told me one winter's evening that he had met with a great sorrow. Fifty-Six was a student at the university, but he was going out into society and was wearing seven shirts a week. Ah-Yen...

They were both successful business men and had fallen into conversation while waiting for their order. One of them was saying that he would never forget his first few years in this town, and the...

The Pleasant Family invites a few friends to spend a Quiet Evening, and the Jolly Maiden Aunt propounds the query: What is the difference between an elephant and a silk hat? The Jolly Aunt reads...

After the event, my mind dealt with the poor man in helpless conjecture, and I ceased to notice him. I lost myself in my work with a kind of humid interest in the psychological inquiry of a...

Since 1812, most Ohio stories have been about business enterprise and industrial adventure, but tragedies and comedies often arise from them. The Standard Oil Company had its rise in Ohio, and the...

A circus was held in the old Roman arena of beautiful Verona, and the chief event was a reproduction of a tournament that had recently been held at Rome. The clowns were very amusing, and one spoke...

Perez Armando Aldeano came eagerly in the hope of fun to the span-yard, where he began babbling and gurgling in Spanish and took my hand for a stroll about the ship. The truth must be owned that...