Once upon a time, there was a poor servant girl who was travelling with the family she worked for through a great forest. Suddenly, robbers emerged from the thicket and attacked them. The girl was terrified and jumped…
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which …
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of thos…
In the department of — but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual at…
Hen the spotted cat first found the nest, there was nothing in it, for it was only just finished. So she said, “I will wait!” for she was a patient cat, and the summer was before her. She waited a week, and then she c…
Let the bird of loudest layOn the sole Arabian treeHerald sad and trumpet be,To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger,Foul precurrer of the fiend,Augur of the fever’s end,To this troop come thou …