Michalina just wanted to party with the other elves. She definitely didn't want to be roped into guard duty, given a protector's blade and assigned to the gate where...

Stheno is on the warpath after Perseus killed her sister, Medusa.A short story based on the myth.

Collection of short stories: “Lillian Morris”, “Sachem”, “Yamyol” and “The Bull Fight”.

A. E. Coppard's short stories belong more to the tradition of the folktale than to that of modern literary fiction. Coppard's work has its sophistications, but they are...

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.

"In the Orchard" is a story by Virginia Woolf written and published in 1923. The protagonist is Miranda, in the shade of the apple trees. The reader is immersed, by...

"The sea fogs" is an account of a trip to Napa Valley (California), first published by Stevenson in short story form in 1879. During this trip the writer's health...

From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in...

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep...

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you...