Tony and the Beetles Philip K. Dick (4705 Words)
A chilling story of colonial expansion, in Space.

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff (4,250 words)
A story is about a college history professor who has always played it safe by expounding non-controversial views.

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.

Cat and Mouse by Ralph Williams (10315 Words)
Another view of predators.Porgee's Boar by Jonathan Carroll (5802 Words)
An well wriitten tale on art and fear.
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The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick (13,784 words)
a dystopian adventure story set in a society that takes policing a step even further than the infamous “Thought Police” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Philip K. Dick's posthumous influence has been widespread, extending beyond literary circles into Hollywood filmmaking. Popular films based on his works include Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010). Beginning in 2015, Amazon Prime Video produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle, based on Dick's 1962 novel; and in 2017 Channel 4 produced the anthology series Electric Dreams, based on various Dick stories.

The Silver Key by H. P. Lovecraft (4,988 words)
This story amused me because of its take on technology.

Reaping Time by A. Bertram Chandler (1199 Words)
A cautionary tale.

THE EMPTY HOUSE By Algernon Blackwood (6231 Words)
A short ghost story of an older woman wanting to investigate the haunted house in her town. She enlists the help of her nephew and it gets down right creepy!

Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869–1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.

Some Little Bug by John Leroy Atwell aka Roy Atwell (581 Words)
Some little bug is going to find you some day.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (943 words)
A Mexican-American family moves to a new neighborhood. Although far from perfect, their small house is special because they own it. It lies in a Hispanic part of town that most outsiders consider dangerous. A year later, the protagonist reflects on why the house (of which she is ashamed) doesn’t yet feel like home.

The 6% Squeeze by Eddie Robson  (2102 Words)
You can't be too careful.

ABACUS and the Android Blast-Off by Angelique Fawns (1238 Words)
An Android game.

Walker Brothers Cowboy by Alice Munro (6,150 words)
Although set in rural Ontario, there isn’t a cow to be seen in this Depression-era story. The “cowboy”, once a successful fox farmer, is now a door-to-door household product salesman.

The King of Jazz by Donald Barthelme (1,220 words)
The King of Jazz provides a satirical account of several aspects of the American music scene.

Donald Barthelme Jr.(April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.

The Toxic Donut by Terry Bisson (1,450 words) |

Terry Ballantine Bisson (February 12, 1942 – January 10, 2024) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire", which won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and "They're Made Out of Meat".

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

The Baby by Donald Barthelme (800 words)
The baby has totally turns the tables.

Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway (1,454 words)
Aa young boy ‘comes of age’ as he witnesses the saving of a woman’s life, the birth of her baby, and the death of her husband.

Jack-in-the-Box by Ray Bradbury (5825 words)
Edwin uses their windows as portals to glimpse the world beyond. He is unsuccessful in this task until he discovers the door open to a forbidden room. Upon entry, he climbs the spiral staircase to the tower, and looks out the windows.

Public libraries saved my life By Nancy Dutra
About ADHD.

Amnesty by Nadine Gordime (3,600 words)
A young South African woman whose unionist husband is imprisoned for five years comes to appreciate the need for people at all levels to join hands in resisting oppression.

There Was Once by Margaret Atwood (604 words)
A storyteller is humiliated into whittling his twenty-four-word opening sentence down to just one, and then changing it. This illustrates how, taken to extremes, almost anything one says has the potential to offend someone.

Potatoes Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong

Also, Resistant starch is a type of fiber that is naturally present in many types of plant foods but it can be increased in other foods containing regular starch, like rice, pasta and potatoes, after they are cooked and then cooled.
Cooking and cooling causes the food’s starch molecules to become tightly packed together and some of the starch becomes “resistant”. Thus, its sugar molecules are not as easily broken down and absorbed into your bloodstream.
Even if you reheat the food as leftovers the next day, most of the resistant starch formed during cooling will remain.

Because resistant starches aren’t easily digested, they don’t spike your blood sugar as much as regular starch does.
Resistant starch continues on in your guts, where it feeds the good microbes helping them to flourish making beneficial molecules linked with lower cholesterol and inflammation.

With All Flags Flying by Anne Tyler (3,948 words)

An unusual aspect of this Anne Tyler story about an eighty-two-year-old man going into an “old folks’ home” is that he is doing it out of choice and on his own terms.

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989.

Walking with Thorny by Stetson Bostic (3309 Words)
A rather animistic view of thorns.

Animism (from Latin: anima meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words—as being animated, having agency and free will.

Cat in the Rain – Ernest Hemingway (1,147 words)
A woman feels pity for a cat she sees trying to stay dry under an outside table.

The War Prayer by Mark Twain (1,282 words)
Following Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, it seems appropriate to feature one of literature’s most famous “anti-war” stories. Written in 1905, this narrative essay by Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) is a condemnation of the American imperialist agenda that led to the Spanish and Filipino-American Wars.

The Secret Of Goresthorpe Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle (5193 Words)
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion bought by a successful businessman who is disappointed there is no ghost and attempts to buy one.

Arthur Conan Doyle is, of course, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

My Grandfather in Chicago, Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana (501 words)
Life was different back then. An enterprising person could work in many different ways.

Clean Sweep Ignatius by Jeffrey Archer (2,372 Words)
Ignatius Agarbi did a good job clearing up his countrys reputation for corruption. He wants to figure out Swiss banks hidden money in secret accounts.

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, life peer, convicted criminal, and former elected politician who remains a member of the House of Lords. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt.

The Fat Girl – Andre Dubus (6.429 words)
This story highlights the psychological damage that can arise when young people are shamed for not fitting community or cultural norms.

Dubus grew up in the Bayou country in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was educated by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order that emphasized literature and writing.

Harness's ideas influenced numerous writers and he continued to publish until 2001, being nominated for multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. In 2004 he was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson (813 words)

Bisson was one of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D.C., during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "peace race". Kennedy invited the group into the White House (the first time protesters had ever been so recognized) and they met for several hours with McGeorge Bundy. The group received wide press coverage, and this event is regarded as the start of the student peace movement.

To Build a Fire by Jack London (6700 words)
In the frozen north building a fire is life itself.

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

THE FALL OF THE SPIDER MAN - Folk Tale  (2333 words)
This charming story is based on an native origin story.

From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan

Franchise by Issac Asimov (5700 words)
Antique view of our computer future, a well-told tale.

Isaac Asimov. born in 1920 was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.

  Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay.

Hermann the Irascible – H. H. Munro (aka Saki)

H. H. Munro (aka Saki)’s story Hermann the Irascible is a classic example of the use of reverse psychology to achieve a desired result. The story first appeared in 1909 at the height of the suffrage movement in Britain.

April in Paris – Ursula Le Guin
A 15th century French scientist, frustrated with being unable to prove a theory he had developed, decides his work is a waste of time. He experiments with black magic and is surprised when his first spell is a success, allowing him to teleport kindred spirits from the past and future to join him.

Filboid Studge – H. H. Munro (Saki)
The young character shows great perception in realizing that you can sell the most vile, foul-tasting food by making people feel guilty for not buying it.

"The Veldt" by RAY BRADBURY • Classic Radio Play Read by Leonard Nimoy Audio 28 Minutes

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy    AUDIO 27 Minutes

The Ransom of the Red Chief by O. Henry

The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte (1839-1902)
Audio

The Signal Man by Charles Dickens
Audio BBC short drama

Craphound by Cory Doctorow

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet

Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling

When the Yogurt Took Over by John Scalzi