Short Stories Books
Tales of the clipper ships
Here are retellings of the fanciful fables told by night on clipper ships—exciting yarns, full of the lore, superstitions, and everyday life of sailors at sea.
In the Year Ten Thousand
A. D. 10,000. An old man, more than six hundred years of age, was walking with a boy through a great museum. The people who were moving around them had beautiful forms, and faces which were indescribably refined and spiritual. “Father,” said the boy, “you promised to tell me to-day about the...
Out of the Woods
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) was an American novelist and short story writer. She primarily authored fiction in the hardboiled subgenre of detective novels.
The Story of Zephyr: A Christmas Story
The Story of Zephyr: A Christmas Story by Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith
An Art Shop in Greenwich Village
An Art Shop in Greenwich Village by Ray Cummings
In the Garden of the Gods
When one is in the Garden of the Gods one should be, I suppose, in Elysian humor. My mood, to the contrary, for private reasons of my own, was thunderous. I lay on my elbow among the kinni-kinic where I had flung myself down in the shade of a silver spruce. But the sun was higher now, and its...
The Laugh Maker
You can laugh too much. You can be too cheerful. You can look too much on the sunny side of life. You wont believe this and neither did Bobby McTabb. But McTabb proved it out. It took the girl to help him—Kitty Duchene was her name—tall and sweet to look upon, with those pure blue eyes, dark...
The Animals' Christmas Tree
Once upon a time the animals decided to have a Christmas tree, and this was how it came about. The swifts and the swallows in the chimneys in the country houses, awakened from their sleep by joy and laughter, had stolen down and peeped in upon scenes of happiness, the centre of which was always an...
Christmas Holidays or a Visit at Home
The stage coach stopped at the door of the Academy in Abington, an hour later than the expected time, and Howard and George Barrington ran forward with eagerness, as school boys are wont to do, when they are going from a retired part of the country into the city, at the Christmas Holidays.
Ajay And His Tales From Faraway Lands
This is a book of ten short stories. They are set in different parts of the world where resources are usually limited, but human values and principles are not. It is a world in which people are happy with less, lead simpler lives and try to make the best of it.The Telephone Call: A telephone...