[Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet and writer. He is known as the inventor of detective fiction and contributed in the science fiction also.] THE ANGEL OF THE ODD It was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic …
[Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American writer and poet. He is known for his talents in various literary fields- stories, poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.] COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF IT HAD BEEN a day of triumph for Colonel Starbottle. First, for his personality, as …
[George William Curtis, (Feb. 24, 1824-Aug. 31, 1892) was an American writer, editor, and leader in civil service reform.] TITBOTTOM’S SPECTACLES In my mind’s eye, Horatio. PRUE AND I do not entertain much; our means forbid it. In truth, other people entertain us. We enjoy that hospitality of which no account is made. We see …
SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne. She was tired.Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement …
Micro-FictionCheating Doesn’t PayBy Anna Maria Sprzęczka-Stępień It was beautiful autumn, just the beginning: September. So golden and sunny. People have been coming back from their holidays. James too. He has spent a wonderful time in the countryside, but all good things must come to an end.The next day after the return, first thing in the …
Short Story What You Want By O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone. In different masquerades, the streets, bazaars, and walled houses of the occidental city of romance were filled with the same kind …
By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times …
By M.R. James It was, as far as I can ascertain, in September of the year 1811 that a post-chaise drew up before the door of Aswarby Hall, in the heart of Lincolnshire. The little boy who was the only passenger in the chaise, and who jumped out as soon as it had stopped, looked …
The Brinjal And The Little Girl That day the little Brinjal was feeling very upset. Why upset he was about to explode. He was almost jumping right and left out of anger. The Brinjal brethren mocked at him- he was most unbrinjal like. From any angle, he hardly looked like brinjal. Did he resemble a …
