The story shelf
Follow your curiosity.
A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The narrator’s attitude toward the story.
28 stories · Selected from the catalog · Page 2 of 2
O. HenryIn a Greenwich Village artists' colony, a gravely ill young painter ties her fate to the last leaf on a neighboring vine.
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A struggling typist finds a small, private universe in the star she watches through the skylight of her attic room.
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Every Thanksgiving, a wealthy old man takes a homeless stranger to dinner, preserving a private tradition neither can bear to break.
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An aging prospector on a remote asteroid gives his work robot a personality and gains the companion he never expected.
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