In this story, our hero is…too empathetic? Unable to protect himself from seeing the inequities, the injustices, the impossible situation…
This story is “The Gay Old Dog” by Edna Ferber. Many of Ferber’s stories were made into blockbusters you probably…
This story is by Frank Stockton. Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known for his allegorical fairy tales…
Thisstory is “To Build A Fire” by Jack London, about an unnamed protagonist who ventures out in the subzero tundra…
This story is “Roger Malvin’s Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Much of Hawthorne’s work belongs to the sub-genre of Dark Romanticism,…
Remember the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with Brad Pitt? Did you know that movie is based on…
Here is another episode of the “The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange” by Anna Katherine Green. Green…
This story is “Jane” by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. Many of…
Here is a story by J. D. Beresford. Beresford was an English author whose most remembered works include ghost stories,…
Here are two stories by Virginia Woolf: “An Unwritten Novel” and “The Mark on the Wall”. Virginia Woolf is a…