A Very Short Story
Ernest HemingwayA wounded soldier and a nurse fall in love in wartime Milan, trying to make a future together before the front and the armistice pull them apart.
3 min · Tragic
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Fifty Grand
Ernest HemingwayA veteran boxer plans to lose the fight that will end his career—but keeping the money may demand one last act of courage.
37 min · Suspenseful
My Old Man
Ernest HemingwayA boy follows his jockey father through the racecourses of Italy and France, learning to love the horses, the crowds, and the man who rides them.
27 min · Adventurous
The Undefeated
Ernest HemingwayAn aging bullfighter takes a cheap night fight in Madrid, determined to prove that the old skill and courage are still in him.
47 min · Suspenseful
A Tale of the Passions
Mary ShelleyA young emissary enters hostile Florence with a plea that could alter a kingdom's fate.
54 min · Tragic
Euphrasia
Mary ShelleyA reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
25 min · Tragic
The Parvenue
Mary ShelleyA poor steward's daughter marries the lord who saved her from a burning home.
17 min · Melancholy
The Sisters of Albano
Mary ShelleyTwo devoted sisters face the terrible cost of loving an outlaw.
28 min · Tragic
The Caballero’s Way
O. HenryA ruthless Texas outlaw, a determined ranger, and the woman between them move toward a reckoning in the thorny frontier.
21 min · Suspenseful
The Cactus
O. HenryAfter watching the woman he loves marry another man, a proud bachelor reconstructs the misunderstanding that destroyed his chance.
6 min · Melancholy
Morgue Ship
Ray BradburyA burned-out coroner on a space morgue ship gets one last chance to confront the war whose dead he has carried for a decade.
17 min · Solemn
11 stories