Tag archives for short story
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by Leo Tolstoy
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS
by Leo Tolstoy
In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich
Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.
Aksionov was ...
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 ...
The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly ...
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 ...
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 ...