Books: What to Know
Short Reads, Big Stories
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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5,838 short stories
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Common Denominator
John D. MacDonald · short story
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Commonplace, and other short stories
Christina Georgina Rossetti · short story
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Communication
Charles L. Fontenay · short story
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Community Property
Alfred Coppel · short story
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Compatible
Richard Rein Smith · short story
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Competition
James Causey · short story
The story in one page
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
A judge confesses to murder, a fisherman braves a storm, and irony waits around every corner.
Guy de Maupassant · collection
The story in one page
Complete Short Works of George Meredith
A merchant protects his daughter from a Kaiser, a General endures weaponized sketches, and a house succumbs to the tide.
George Meredith · collection
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Comrades
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · short story
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Con-Fen
James R. Adams · short story
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Condensed Novels
Bret Harte · short story
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Condensed Novels: New Burlesques
Bret Harte · short story
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Confidence Game
Jim Harmon · short story
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Confidence Game
James McKimmey · short story
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Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
M. T. W. · short story
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Conservation
Charles L. Fontenay · short story
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Consignment
Alan Edward Nourse · short story
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Contact, and Other Stories
Frances Noyes Hart · short story
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Contamination Crew
Alan Edward Nourse · short story
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Control Group
Roger D. Aycock · short story
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Conversation
J. Frank Davis · short story
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Cool air
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
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Corbow's Theory
Lee Wallot · short story
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Corporal Sam and Other Stories
Arthur Quiller-Couch · short story
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Cosmic Castaway
Stanley Mullen · short story
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Cosmic striptease
Harlan Ellison · short story
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Cosmic Tragedy
Thomas S. Gardiner · short story
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Cosmic Yo-Yo
Ross Rocklynne · short story
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Cossack Tales
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol · short story
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Cost of Living
Robert Sheckley · short story
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Costa Rican tales
Ricardo Fernández Guardia · short story
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Cottage Folk
Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr · short story
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Countdown
Julian F. Grow · short story
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Counterweight
Jerry Sohl · short story
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Country Lodgings
Mary Russell Mitford · short story
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Course of Empire
Richard Wilson · short story
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Cows is cows
W. C. Tuttle · short story
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Crack of doom
Stephen Marlowe · short story
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Craphound
Cory Doctorow · short story
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Crash Beam
John Barrett · short story
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Crash dive
Claude C. Vickrey · short story
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Cream of the jug
Grant M. Overton · short story
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Creepin' Tintypes
W. C. Tuttle · short story
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Criminal Negligence
J. Francis McComas · short story
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Crisis on Titan
James R. Adams · short story
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Crisis!
C. M. Kornbluth · short story
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Cronus of the D. F. C.
Lloyd Jr. Biggle · short story
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Cross Purposes and The Shadows
George MacDonald · short story