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Where storytellers meet readers.

Read, write, and explore. Connecting writers with a new audience, and readers with new short stories.

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The Glugs of Gosh - Ogs

The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.

3 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Willows

While on a canoe trip down the Danube River, two friends encounter some mysterious, hostile entities.

98 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Storyboard

He documented his facial expressions, traced pathways with his finger, mimed the resulting sequences, and waited for something to fill the blank spaces behind.

< 1 min read · Rating: G · Read story

Aunt Kipp

Toady was regarded as a reprobate by all but his mother Van Bahr Lamb, but he bolted out the truth. Toady was taken aback when Aunt Kipp entered the garden, let go of his shoe-strings, and fell...

39 min read · Rating: G · Read story

My Pentagon

The military came together on paper under glass to shine on me!

< 1 min read · Rating: G · Read story

The Indian Wars And Wayne's Victory

The Indians, who had been so well generaled and fought so ably, failed to follow up their victory by moving on the American settlements in force. The battle of Fallen Timbers was fought on the 20th...

9 min read · Rating: G · Read story

His Apparition

Hewson was confronted with an apparition and dramatized the scene at breakfast. He got hardily back into bed and waited for the repetition. Hewson came up to the cottage and perceived a...

98 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure

Mr. & Mrs. Lee were going off for the day & left their two children John 10 yrs old & Alice 2 yrs old. The younger Lees went down cellar & began to rummage among the rubbish little...

3 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, a venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof, and a painting represented a cat playing rackets. The young man had his peculiarities, including white...

107 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

A Knight-Errant Of The Foothills

Father Felipe read the announcement that Don Jose Sepulvida would preside over the Board of Education in Jonesville. Don Jose Sepulvida, sitting alone in the same apartment, beheld to his...

44 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story

Prosper's "Old Mother"

Joe Wynbrook lifted a glass of whiskey from the floor under his chair and took a long draught of the spirits with every symptom of satisfaction. He proceeded. Prosper was not perfectly happy with...

36 min read · Rating: PG · Read story

Doctor Marigold

I am a Cheap Jack, and I am partial to a white hat. The doctor accepted a tea-tray from me, and the old couple, though retired, cried out in the old patter, fluent, "Now here is a working model of...

60 min read · Rating: PG-13 · Read story