Tag archives for short story

image-1310

Failure is Challengeable by Jerry Olasakinju

Failure is Challengeable  by Jerry Olasakinju A year after his graduation from the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Desmond Adele knew exactly what he was going to do. Unlike his contemporaries who ...
image-772

The Candle by Leo Tolstoy

The Candle by Leo Tolstoy      'Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a      tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye ...
image-518

The outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte

THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT Bret Harte (1839-1902) As Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the 23d of November, 1850, he was ...
image-40

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

French frigate La Boudeuse I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical ...
image-8

ARABY by James Joyce

ARABY NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at ...
image-3

The Garden Party by Kathleen Mansfield

THE GARDEN PARTY And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky ...