Archive for July, 2007
Beware of the Dog
Posted on July 19, 2007. Filed under: Roald Dahl, Short Stories |
by Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Word Count: 5072
DOWN below there was only a vast white undulating sea of cloud. Above there was the sun, and the sun was white like the clouds, because it is never yellow when one looks at it from high in the air.
He was still flying the Spitfire. His right hand was on [...]
Eva Is Inside Her Cat
Posted on July 4, 2007. Filed under: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Short Stories |
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE NOTICED that her beauty had fallen all apart on her, that it had begun to pain her physically like a tumor or a cancer. She still remembered the weight of the privilege she had borne over her body during adolescence, which she had dropped now–who knows where?–with [...]
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Posted on July 1, 2007. Filed under: Mark Twain, Short Stories |
by MARK TWAINIn compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is [...]
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