Short Stories eBooks
A Short Story Collection
Short Stories, by Peter StoneA collection of historical, sci-fi, and other short stories. A mysterious lady in black; medieval peasants go on the rampage; a squire lets down his master; hundreds of a habits orbiting earth are on the brink of war; a young man is mesmerized by a strange girl in a nightclub; and a man flees for his life in post apocalyptic badlands.
A Simple Soul
Short Stories, by Gustave FlaubertLike every other woman, she had had an affair of the heart. Her father, who was a mason, was killed by falling from a scaffolding. Then her mother died and her sisters went their different ways; a farmer took her in, and while she was quite small, let her keep cows in the fields. She was clad in miserable rags, beaten for the slightest offence and finally dismissed for a theft of thirty sous...
Aaron Trow
Short Stories, by Anthony TrollopeAnd then a day came in which an attempt was made by a large body of convicts, under his leadership, to get the better of the officers of the prison. It is hardly necessary to say that the attempt failed. Such attempts always fail. It failed on this occasion signally, and Trow, with two other men, were condemned to be scourged terribly, and then kept in solitary confinement for some lengthened...
Accounts From An Old Ledger
Biography, by George LoukasA series of short memoirs starting from my very early school years,(G.P.S.) through secondary education, (Delinquents), through university studies in London, England,(3, Wetherby), through my many, intimate, precious and not so precious friendships, through my life and occupation in Cairo, Egypt, through my many professional difficulties and the "Vortex" of my final business failure and lastly...
Acts of God
Short Stories, by K. T. TylerA mystery of faith, fear, legend and human frailty. A monumental moment in history is revisited from a fresh though somewhat bizarre perspective. As faith meets fantasy and the two become hopelessly enmeshed, the search for an answer only uncovers more devilish questions
Aesop Updated
Short Stories, by Barry DanielsFables for the new millennium. Short Stories with a moral, like Aesop's fables, but in this case a moral relating to life and work in the twenty first century. Amusing and entertaining stories which will leave you with something to think about.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Short Stories, by Ambrose BierceShort story by Ambrose Bierce, published in 1891 in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, a collection that in 1898 was revised, enlarged, and retitled In the Midst of Life. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, the man imagines his escape.
An Old Woman's Tale
Short Stories, by Nathaniel HawthorneAn Old Woman's Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Short Stories, by Anthony TrollopeNow Mrs. Damer was soft-hearted, and also somewhat old-fashioned. She did not conceive any violent affection for Miss Dawkins, but she told her daughter that "the single lady by herself was a very nice young woman, and that it was a thousand pities she should have to go about so much alone like.





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