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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Aloys
R. A. Lafferty · short story
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Alpha Say, Beta Do
Alfred E. Maxwell · short story
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Altitude
Leland Jamieson · short story
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Always a Qurono
Jim Harmon · short story
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Am I Still There?
James R. Hall · short story
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Amateur in Chancery
George O. Smith · short story
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Ambition
William L. Bade · short story
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Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat
E. Phillips Oppenheim · short story
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Ambush: A Terran Empire vignette
Ann Wilson · short story
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American Fairy Tales
L. Frank Baum · short story
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American short stories
Charles Sears Baldwin · short story
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Americans All
Benjamin A. Heydrick · short story
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Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others
Louis Becke · short story
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Among the camps
Thomas Nelson Page · short story
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Among the Farmyard People
Clara Dillingham Pierson · short story
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Among the Forest People
Clara Dillingham Pierson · short story
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Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers, Vol. 1
William Patten · short story
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Among the Meadow People
Clara Dillingham Pierson · short story
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Among the Night People
Clara Dillingham Pierson · short story
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Among the Pond People
Clara Dillingham Pierson · short story
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Among the Scented Ones
Basil Wells · short story
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Amour, Amour, Dear Planet!
Mark Clutter · short story
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Amusement Only
Richard Marsh · short story
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Amusing prose chap-books
Robert Hays Cunningham · myth
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Amy Foster
Joseph Conrad · short story
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An Adulteration Act
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales
Sarah Orne Jewett · short story
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An Art Shop in Greenwich Village
Ray Cummings · short story
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An artist's life
Harry Harrison · short story
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An Echo Of Antietam
Edward Bellamy · short story
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An Eel by the Tail
Allen Kim Lang · short story
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An Elephant for the Prinkip
L. J. Jr. Stecher · short story
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An Empty Bottle
Mari Wolf · short story
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An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories
Mrs. Molesworth · collection
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An enemy of peace
Robert Silverberg · short story
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An experiment in gyro-hats
Ellis Parker Butler · short story
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An eye for the ladies
Stephen Marlowe · short story
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An idyl of the Wabash, and other stories
Anna Nicholas · short story
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An Incident on Route 12
James H. Schmitz · short story
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An Irish Crazy-Quilt: Smiles and tears, woven into song and story
Arthur M. Forrester · short story
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An Isle in the Water
Katharine Tynan · short story
The story in one page
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A Confederate sympathizer stands on a gallows, dreaming of a narrow escape while the rope is already tightening.
Ambrose Bierce · short story
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An Old Sailor's Yarns
N. Ames · short story
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An Old Woman's Tale
Nathaniel Hawthorne · short story
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An Ounce of Cure
Alan Edward Nourse · short story
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An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Anthony Trollope · short story
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And a little child
Marcia Kamien · short story
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And All the Earth a Grave
C. C. MacApp · short story