SHORT STORIES
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A COLLECTION OF SHORT CONTEMPORARY STORIES
By: James W. Nelson
Stuff happens every day that could become a short story. You witness a skydive, then imagine what could go wrong. You visit a nursing home and imagine resident interactions.
You see a group of cars go by that all look alike and with antennas; obviously they’re in a caravan—what’s happening? You suddenly want a coffee, but something is stopping you,
and now you really want one…! These are all things that happen every day. You witness this, you witness that, you add your own imagination of what’s going on and there arises a short story.
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A Deal in Wheat And Other Stories
By: Frank Norris
But the madness was upon him none the less, and it rode and roweled him like a hag from dawn to dark and from dark to dawn again, till in his complete loneliness, in the isolation of that simple,
primitive life, where no congenial mind relieved the monotony by so much as a word, morbid, hounded, tortured, the man grew desperate--was ready for anything that would solve the situation.
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A Marine’s Lapse in Synapse
By: Joey D. Ossian
A collection of unbelievable but true short stories.
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A Mountain Woman and Other Stories
By: Elia W. Peattie
I have married a mountain woman," he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, -- a primitive woman, grand and vast of spirit, capable of true and steadfast wifehood. No sophistry about her; no knowledge even that there is sophistry. Heavens! man, do you remember the rondeaux and triolets I used to write to those pretty creatures back East.
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A Modern Cinderella and other stories
By: Louisa May Alcott
To all of which remarks Nan gave her assent; though the hop-pole took the likeness of a tall figure she had seen in the porch, the sage-bed, curiously enough, suggested a strawberry ditto, the lettuce vividly reminded her of certain vegetable productions a basket had brought, and the bob-o-link only sung in his cheeriest voice, "Go home, go home! he is there.
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A Set of Six
By: Joseph Conrad
These six stories, Conrad says in his introduction, are all based in truth. The stories included are: "Gaspar Ruiz," "The Informer," "The Brute," "An Anarchist," "The Duel," and "Il Conde."
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A Simple Soul
By: Gustave Flaubert
The French title is "Un coeur simple" which word for word would be translated as "A Simple Heart".
Like 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 which she did not commit.
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A Short Story Collection
By: Peter Stone
A 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 conflict; a young man is mesmerized by a strange girl; and a man flees for his life in post apocalyptic badlands.
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Aaron Trow
by Anthony Trollope
And 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 term of months.
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Acts of God
By: K. T. Tyler
A mystery of faith, fear, legend and human frailty. A monumental moment in history is revisited from a fresh though somewhat bizarre perspective. And the mystery begins. Many questions remain unanswered. Use your own vivid imagination and email your answers to chefjahweh@yahoo.com. Reader feedback will play a major role in where the story goes from here. Watch for Book Two in December.
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Aesop Updated
By: Barry Daniels
Fables 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.
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
Short 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.
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An Old Woman's Tale
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the house where I was born, there used to be an old woman crouching all day long over the kitchen fire, with her elbows on her knees and her feet in the ashes. Once in a while she took a turn at the spit, and she never lacked a coarse gray stocking in her lap, the foot about half finished; it tapered away with her own waning life, and she knit the toe-stitch on the day of her death. She made it her serious business and sole amusement to tell me stories at any time from morning till night, in a mumbling, toothless voice, as I sat on a log of wood, grasping her cheek-apron in both my hands.
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An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
By: Anthony Trollope
Now 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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and when i die..
By: wunmi-ibukun-sanyaolu
A Nigerian romance novel ...to live in the heart of those who love you is not to die.
Back in her hotel room, Tinuade Philips quickly got rid of her stage clothes, she felt sticky after three shows on that day; she rushed to
the bathroom naked and hurriedly got under the shower.
She gradually applied soap and let the shower run for a very long time, caressing her slim body she was glad the three days of stage play was over.
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Back to God's Country and Other Stories
By: James Oliver Curwood
Most of Curwood's stories were adventure tales set in the Canadian North, where the author spent much of his time. During the 1920s his books were among the most popular in North America, and many were made into movies. The River's End was the first book to sell more than 100,000 copies in its first edition.
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Be Afraid To Come Back (Pt. 1)
by V. Smith III
Journey into the mind of a young man turmoiled with the responsibility of the educated. Although in a world seemingly void of learned knowledge from a formal setting, Junya is tested
in all realms when his girlfriend Khevasiah invites him to a night on the town out of town.
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