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In the Year Ten Thousand

In the Year Ten Thousand

Will N. Harben | Short Stories
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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

Out of the Woods

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding | Short Stories
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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

Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith | Short Stories
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The Story of Zephyr: A Christmas Story by Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith

An Art Shop in Greenwich Village

An Art Shop in Greenwich Village

Ray Cummings | Short Stories
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An Art Shop in Greenwich Village by Ray Cummings

In the Garden of the Gods

In the Garden of the Gods

William MacLeod Raine | Short Stories
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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

The Laugh Maker

James Oliver Curwood | Short Stories
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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

The Animals' Christmas Tree

John P. Peters | Short Stories
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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

Christmas Holidays or a Visit at Home

Anonymous | Short Stories
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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

Ajay And His Tales From Faraway Lands

Amitava Chaudhuri | Short Stories
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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...

The Light Machine

The Light Machine

Ray Cummings | Short Stories
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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.