Short Stories

21 stories available

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Back to the Motherland

The airport smells the same every time. Not bad, just familiar — a mix of cleaning products, coffee, and the particular…

Short Fiction / Literary Realism

I walk through the empty bedroom. I stand in the kitchen, which is barely a separate room at all — more of a suggestion…

Literary Fiction

C1 2 worksheets

This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So, he was visitin…

Short Fiction / Literary Realism

B1 2 worksheets

The Chair by the Fire Door

The chair had been there as long as anyone could remember. It sat in the corner of the staffroom at Redmoor Secondary …

Literary Fiction

C1 2 worksheets

The rain in Velos never stopped. It cascaded in luminescent sheets across the tiered architecture of the city — a metro…

Death by Scrabble

I watch my wife's smug expression as she rearranges her letters. Clack, clack, clack. I hate her. If she wasn't around,…

The Story of an Hour

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possib…

Literary Fiction

There are those who wish to know, and there are those who don’t wish to know.

Mystery Science Fiction

The Monkey's Paw

"It had a spell put on it by an old fakir," said the sergeant-major, "a very holy man. He wanted to show that fate rul…

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