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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A Little Journey
Ray Bradbury · short story
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A Little Knowledge
R. R. Winterbotham · short story
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A London Life, and Other Tales
Henry James · short story
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A long way back
Ben Bova · short story
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A Loose End and Other Stories
S. Elizabeth Hall · short story
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A Love Story Reversed
Edward Bellamy · short story
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A Lover in Homespun
F. Clifford Smith · short story
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A Madman on Board
Robert Silverberg · short story
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A Man of Means
P. G. Wodehouse · short story
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A Man-Sized Pet
W. C. Tuttle · short story
The story in one page
A Martian Odyssey
A stranded chemist makes a friend on Mars. His friend is a bird-thing that talks in whistles.
Stanley G. Weinbaum · short story
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A Matter of Ethics
R. R. Winterbotham · short story
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A Matter of Magnitude
Al Sevcik · short story
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A Matter of Order
Fox B. Holden · short story
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A Matter of Proportion
Anne Walker · short story
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A Matter of Protocol
Jack Sharkey · short story
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A Matter of Taste
L. J. Jr. Stecher · short story
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A Memory of the Southern Seas
Louis Becke · short story
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A Message From Our Sponsor
Henry Slesar · short story
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A Message from the Sea
Charles Dickens · short story
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A Michigan Man
Elia Wilkinson Peattie · short story
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A Midnight Fantasy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich · short story
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A military interlude
Ernest Haycox · short story
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A minute to think
Ray Humphreys · short story
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A mirror of Shalott
Robert Hugh Benson · short story
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A Mixed Proposal
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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A Mixture of Genius
Arnold Castle · short story
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A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories
Louisa May Alcott · short story
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A moment of madness, and other stories (vol. 1 of 3)
Florence Marryat · short story
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A moment of madness, and other stories (vol. 2 of 3)
Florence Marryat · short story
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A moment of madness, and other stories (vol. 3 of 3)
Florence Marryat · short story
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A Mountain Woman
Elia Wilkinson Peattie · short story
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A municipal feud
Ernest Haycox · short story
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A Napa Christchild; and Benicia's Letters
Charles A. Gunnison · short story
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A New Story Book for Children
Fanny Fern · short story
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A Night in Acadie
Kate Chopin · short story
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A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
Amelia B. Edwards · short story
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A notched gun
Walt Coburn · short story
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A Pail of Air
Fritz Leiber · short story
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A Pair of Clogs
Amy Walton · short story
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A Pair of Patient Lovers
William Dean Howells · short story
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A Passion in the Desert
Honoré de Balzac · short story
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A perfect gentleman
Mark Price · short story
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A Personal Problem
H. Bedford-Jones · short story
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A Pet Reader
Edith Wilhelmina Lawson · short story
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A Picture-book of Merry Tales
Horace Harral · short story
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A Place in the Sun
Stephen Marlowe · short story
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A Place so Foreign
Cory Doctorow · short story