Short Stories Books

An Art Shop in Greenwich Village by Ray Cummings

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

TUBBY took his feet off the fender of the little stove in the back, room of O'Connor's Grocery and glared at his two friends aggressively.

The Last Laugh - D. H. Lawrence - The Last Laugh is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in a dreamlike snowy London. The question left open is who the three people in the story saw on the snowy evening. Perhaps Pan, returned to destroy the Christian God, as the church is destroyed in...

A Short stories book Upside Down or Backwards by W. C. Tuttle

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