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Stories by:
- Crystal Gail Shangkuan
- Charlie Fish
- Maria Goodin
- David Ensminger
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- The Short Guide To Vampires
- The Short Guide To Fables
- The Short Guide To Katherine Mansfield
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An Imaginative Woman
by Thomas Hardy
Ella had always admired the work of Robert Trewe, but when she finds herself sub-letting his appartment, her love of the poems starts to become a love of the poet.
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Secret Of Macarger's Gulch
by Ambrose Bierce
A hunter stumbles upon a run-down little house and decides to spend the night - but finds himself plagued by disquieting thoughts and dreams.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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Metropolis
by Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo
"This is how you talk about a city you love. You talk about it as if it’s the only place in the world where this story can happen."
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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Baggio's Story
by Charlie Fish
Baggio discovers that becoming a philosopher isn’t as simple as he thought.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Star
by Esther Claes
Not even fame can protect you when the world goes wrong.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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Starving Makes It Fat
by Kay Sexton
Size isn’t everything, but it can mean life or death when Matthew and Liz come to town.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 18
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Flash of Bright
by Russell Golman
When Percy is seventeen, his life changes irrevocably, from one moment to the next
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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Welcome to the short story section at east of the web.
Find this month's featured stories above and in the nine genres.
You can browse the library by genre or search it for a title, author or keyword.
Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links.
Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices.
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Tone
by YZ Chin
A deaf girl tells her boyfriend that she can lip read his tone.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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Death By Scrabble
by Charlie Fish
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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The Brass Teapot
by Tim Macy
When Alice and John buy an antique teapot they get more than they bargained for.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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The Pilgrims
by Charles Kaufmann
Over the course of the summer, John and the Pilgrims became friends.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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Learning The Western Alphabet
by Hilary Jenkins
A love story in two voices: Martin Green, an English teacher in China in the 1980s, and MingMing, his young Chinese 'minder'
- Length: 25 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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The Crack
by Charles Lambert
A visit to an old friend takes an unexpected turn.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 18
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Fall North
by Tim McLean
Ed runs an errand for Mr. Rollo.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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How I Became A Man
by Charles Kaufmann
Inside every gentle, affable guy - and nation - there is a raging beast.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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86th Street and the Summer of Love
by Colin C. Conway
Gang violence against the backdrop of a distant war
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 15
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Time, Again
by Tim Maly
"Before we met, you showed me your diary."
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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