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Kraterov, the titular councillor, as thin and slender as the Admiralty spire, stepped forward and, addressing Zhmyhov, said: “Your Excellency! Moved and touched to the…

I cannot just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine-looking fellow, Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C.…

Just My Luck (Based on an Aesop’s Fable) Long ago, and far away, a young girl named Madeleine lived in a tiny town. All the…

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back…

I ANDREY VASSILITCH KOVRIN, who held a master’s degree at the University, had exhausted himself, and had upset his nerves. He did not send for…

Johnnycake’s Journey (A British and American Folk Tale) Once, an old man, an old woman, and a little boy lived in a house at the…

The garden like a lady fair was cut That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open skies her eyes did shut;…

Fool’s Gold (A Sufi Tale) Long ago, a hermit was walking through a bleak desert land when he happened to spot a cave. The hermit…

There is a small square near the monastery of the Holy Birth which is called Trubnoy, or simply Truboy; there is a market there on…

Flight of the Hippogriff (An Italian Concoction) Long ago, high atop the tallest peak of the Pyrenees Mountains, there lived a magician. He lived in…

What ho! What ho! This fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. All in the Wrong. Many years ago, I contracted…

I I remember, when I was a high school boy in the fifth or sixth class, I was driving with my grandfather from the village…