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Traditional
Short Stories
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The
Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (6,400 words) AUDIO |
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The
Wasp's Nest by Agatha Christie (3,090 words) |
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Witness
for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie (7,416 words) |
| Paul’s
Case by Willa Cather (8,450 words) The things that keep Paul going are his daydreams of one day living the life of the rich and famous, and his love of music and the theatre. When the latter two are taken away, he decides on drastic action. |
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Longer
Short Stories
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Shorter
Short Stories
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| Altamont
2030 by Kurt Newton (1860 Words) It's a trip. |
| Snapshots
of a Wedding by Bessie Head (2,050 words) Themes: tradition vs. modernity, marriage, education, hubris vs. humility, money and status vs. love. |
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An Astrologer’s
Day by R. K. Narayan (1,800 words) |
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Speculative
Fiction
What science fiction does best: "Offers a mirror up to society, exploring how humanity might respond to sudden and seemingly impossible things.” |
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Doll by Jeffrey Ford (5580 words) A middle-aged writer named Jeff Ford stops at a dilapidated roadside “Museum of Word Doll,” where the elderly curator, Beverly Gearing, tells him about a vanished rural ritual in which children received imaginary “word dolls” to help them endure long days of farm labor, and about the horrifying legend of the Mower Man that grew out of that practice. |
| Orbital
Decay by Mallory (6163 Words) A very graphical tale of peril in space |
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Non
Fiction
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