The Fox and The Crow
by Aesop

"A Crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded..." Continue Reading >>

The Bet
by Anton Chekhov

"It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening...." Continue Reading >>

Pigs is Pigs
by Ellis Parker Butler

"Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook his fist. Mr. Morehouse, angry and red, stood on the other side of the counter, trembling with rage...." Continue Reading >>

The Boarding House
by James Joyce

"MRS. MOONEY was a butcher's daughter. She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman. She had married her father's foreman and..." Continue Reading >>

The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe

"TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them...." Continue Reading >>

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

"A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.  The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord.  A rope closely encircled his neck...." Continue Reading >>