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Antropolis USA
My hatred for Agnes led directly to our family’s appearance on Oprah. You’d say, oh, you didn’t hate her; she was just your older sister. But she was not my older sister. She looked older, but...
Antropolis
Sharma Shields
15 min
Incident on Cur Street Russia
He looks like me and is the same height, but he appears to be a half-head taller – the cad. —From an old comedy   As it happened, Alexander Golts came out of the vaudeville show...
Incident on Cur Street
Alexander Grin
7 min
The Golden Honeymoon USA
Mother says that when I start talking I never know when to stop. But I tell her the only time I get a chance is when she ain’t around, so I have to make the most...
The Golden Honeymoon
Ring Lardner
26 min
The Garden Party New Zealand
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 without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled...
The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield
21 min
You Have to Pay Argentina
A moral romance   The restaurant, which offered simple but excellent fare, was lit by a large artificial moon augmented by some weak recessed lighting in the walls. The owner oversaw proceedings from the till. At...
You Have to Pay
Marcelo Cohen
11 min
A Meditation Upon a Broomstick Ireland
According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle’s Meditations.   This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest....
A Meditation Upon a Broomstick
Jonathan Swift
1 min
The Secret Game Italy
There was always, in the square, a curious and ancient rentable stagecoach that no one ever rented. The dozing coachman would shake himself awake at the striking of the hours from the bell tower, then his...
The Secret Game
Elsa Morante
20 min
Raggedy Ann And The Kittens USA
Raggedy Ann had been away all day. Marcella had come early in the morning and dressed all the dolls and placed them about the nursery. Some of the dolls had been put in the little red...
Raggedy Ann And The Kittens
Johnny Gruelle
5 min
The Remarkable Rocket UK
The King’s son was going to be married, so there were general rejoicings. He had waited a whole year for his bride, and at last she had arrived. She was a Russian Princess, and had driven...
The Remarkable Rocket
Oscar Wilde
17 min
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow USA
Found among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker.   A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
48 min
Seeing Miles USA
David stared at Mimi’s picture, taken at his bar mitzvah twenty-five years ago. She was his cousin, a second cousin, and she and her family had come out to Milwaukee from Brooklyn for the occasion. He...
Seeing Miles
Steven Schwartz
13 min
The Blue Cross UK
Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no...
The Blue Cross
G.K. Chesterton
29 min
The Gentle Lena USA
Lena was patient, gentle, sweet and german. She had been a servant for four years and had liked it very well. Lena had been brought from Germany to Bridgepoint by a cousin and had been in...
The Gentle Lena
Gertrude Stein
54 min
Søren Kierkegaard Confounds the City Israel
Søren Kierkegaard was a young university student who lived in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark in the nineteenth century. He enjoyed his university studies, but he felt that they were missing something. His professors taught the...
Søren Kierkegaard Confounds the City
Tom Baikin-O'hayon
5 min
The Day By Day Mosque Iraq
This vinegar is exactly ninety-nine years old, if the calculations I jotted down on my calendar of motivational quotes are correct, because the perfume was produced exactly a week before the enormous concrete head of Saddam...
The Day By Day Mosque
Mortada Gzar
6 min
The Best Laid Plans Trinidad and Tobago
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief and pain, For promis’d joy. —Robert Burns, “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the...
The Best Laid Plans
Darby Maloney
17 min
Raggedy Ann Learns a Lesson USA
One day the dolls were left all to themselves.   Their little mistress had placed them all around the room and told them to be nice children while she was away. And there they sat and...
Raggedy Ann Learns a Lesson
Johnny Gruelle
5 min
Still Water Guatemala
On the silt and pebble-covered floor of the lagoon lay the body of a man. His open eyes seemed to be looking at the sun of a lower, liquid sky. A small black and yellow fish...
Still Water
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
8 min
The Square Mexico
Sunshine crept into the room, forming a white frame around the short dark curtain that barely covered the window. The glow around the darkened window reminded him of Malevich’s black square. He sighed. Vera would have...
The Square
Elisa R.V. García
1 min
Raggedy Ann and the Kite USA
Raggedy Ann watched with interest the preparations.   A number of sticks were being fastened together with strings and covered with light cloth. Raggedy Ann heard some of the boys talk of “The Kite,” so Raggedy...
Raggedy Ann and the Kite
Johnny Gruelle
5 min
To Build a Fire USA
Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat...
To Build a Fire
Jack London
28 min
Hands USA
Upon the half decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the edge of a ravine near the town of Winesburg, Ohio, a fat little old man walked nervously up and down. Across a...
Hands
Sherwood Anderson
9 min
Grandmother and the Ghosts Poland
My grandmother lived in Podlasie. The house wasn’t in the village itself. The neighborhood was known as “the colony”—scattered farms separated by stands of aspen and avenues of age-old, slender poplars. The cottage stood amid an...
Grandmother and the Ghosts
Andrzej Stasiuk
6 min
Kunfoosa the Terrible Or: How to tell the difference between harmless pets and very harmful jinn Israel
Many years ago, before the days of highways-speed internet and underground tunnels, before natural gas drilling sites ever existed, human beings lived here side-by-side with jinn. Today it may sound strange, but back then it was...
Kunfoosa the Terrible Or: How to tell the difference between harmless pets and very harmful jinn
Tamar Hochstadter
5 min
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