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Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler — Two Guinea Pigs Become an Accounting Catastrophe

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Two Hearts That Beat as One by Frank Norris — Two Friends, One Woman, and a Boxing Match

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A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle — The Woman Who Outsmarted Sherlock Holmes

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The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe — A Gentle Man Has Much to Confess

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The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick — Why Is No One Else Horrified?

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Murder of Crows by Don McDonald — The Frontier Has a Long Memory

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August Heat by W. F. Harvey — Two Strangers Have Until Midnight

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The Willow Walk by Sinclair Lewis — A Respectable Man’s Other Life

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The Rips by Don McDonald — Her World Is Coming Apart at the Seams

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The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant — The Private Thoughts of a Respected Man

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe — A Quiet Murder Makes Too Much Noise

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A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf — Two Ghosts Search for What They Left Behind

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The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce — What Killed Him Was There to Be Unseen

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The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs — Three Wishes and No Guarantees

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The Pale Man by Julius Long — The Stranger Down the Hall Is Getting Closer

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The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker — A Student Finds More Than Solitude

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A Wireless Message by Ambrose Bierce — An Impossible Warning Far from Home

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The Furnished Room by O. Henry — A Missing Woman’s Perfume Lingers

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The Man with Two Lives by Ambrose Bierce — Surviving Was Only the Beginning

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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe — An Old Grudge and a Rare Wine

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The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence — How Much Luck Is Enough?

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The Willows - Part Two by Algernon Blackwood — Something Beyond the River Is Watching

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The Willows - Part One by Algernon Blackwood — Something Beyond the River Is Watching

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Yuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn — A Promise Made in the Storm

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The Hum by Don McDonald — A Widower Follows a Sound Beneath His House

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Four Men in a Cave by Stephen Crane — A Little Courage, a Lot of Bravado, and Something in the Dark

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Is the Cure Worse Than the Illness?

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Below Ten Thousand by Don McDonald — All the Time and No Time

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The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain — Confounding Contraptions Are Nothing New

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Still Water by Don McDonald — Four aircraft carriers in a lake?

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The Romance of a Busy Broker by O. Henry — A Wall Street Love Story with a Twist

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Autopay by Don McDonald — Following Her Dead Mother’s Credit Card

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Tobermory by Saki — A Proper British Cat Tells All

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His Own Voice by Don McDonald — A Graphophone Records What Was Never Said

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A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell — The Women See What the Men Miss

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A Foot Too Deep by Don McDonald — A Blacksmith Chooses the Terms of a New Orleans Duel

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A Slice of Life by P. G. Wodehouse — A Chemist, a Baronet and a Girl Locked Upstairs

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The Wrong Funeral by Don McDonald — An Obituary Arrives Forty Years Too Late

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Care Protocol, Episode One — When Self-Driving Cars Start Killing

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The Garden’s Wall by Don McDonald — The Cost of Kindness in a Perfect Society

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The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki — His Wife Gives Him the Silent Treatment

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte — Exiled into a Deadly Sierra Snowstorm

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NOT A STORY

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A Wasted Day by Richard Harding Davis — The Wisest Man on Wall Street Goes to Criminal Court

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The Huntsman by Anton Chekhov — An Estranged Couple Meets on a Country Road

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Chain of Custody by Don McDonald — A Rabbit, Three Backyards, Several Secrets and One Patient Dog

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The Long Light by Don McDonald — A Daughter Returns to the Family Lake House as Her Mother’s Memory Fades

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The Nice People by H. C. Bunner — A Charming Couple Whose Stories Don’t Quite Match

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The Wizard’s Touch by Alice Brown — A Portrait That's More Than a Man's Image

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The Storm by Kate Chopin — A Married Woman, an Old Flame, and a Sudden Downpour

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The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield — A Perfect Afternoon Shadowed by Tragedy

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The Castaway by W.W. Jacobs — A Shipwrecked Husband Returns, and a Fortune-Teller Knows Too Much

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A Day in the Country by Anton Chekhov — Two Children, a Kindly Cobbler, and the Wonders After a Storm

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner — A Reclusive Woman, a Vanished Suitor, and a Locked Room

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Dark by Don McDonald — The Last Witness Watches the Final Light Go Out

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Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield — A Lonely Woman Discovers What Others Really Think of Her

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Man or Monster by Don McDonald — One Man, Thirty Thousand Prisoners, and the Horror of Andersonville

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Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce — A Lost Child Wanders into the Horrors of War

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The Pen by Don McDonald — A Simple Errand, a Recruiting Table, and One Life-Changing Signature

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The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain — Five Gifts, One Choice, and a Fairy’s Cruel Warning

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The Crevice by Don McDonald — No One Left Behind, No Matter the Cost

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The Schartz-Metterklume Method by Saki — An Unusual Case of Mistaken Identity

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The Telegram That Shouldn't Exist by Don McDonald — A Civil War Mystery

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The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde — The Attraction of Mystery

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The Committee Committee by Don McDonald — A Parable on Bureaucracy

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The Rips by Don McDonald — Her World Rips Apart at the Seams

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My Watch by Mark Twain — The Hazards of Repair

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The Arrangement by Don McDonald — The Dangers of Misplaced Trust

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The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield — The Power of a Small Kindness

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Civic Duty by Don McDonald — A Preventable Possibility

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To Build a Fire by Jack London — A Man and a Dog Take On Winter's Worst

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In My Dreams by Don McDonald — Between Sleep and Waking, They Found Each Other

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The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant — The Cost of Wanting More

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The Right Call by Don McDonald — The Call That Made All the Difference

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The Bet by Anton Chekhov — A Wager Against the World

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The Eternal Code — A Special Presentation of an Original Short Story

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Litreading – Classic Short Stories Live On

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Uncle Richard’s New Year Dinner – A Classic Short Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The Boy with the Box – A Classic Christmas Story by Mary Griggs Van Voorhis

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On Christmas Day in the Morning – A Classic Christmas Story by Grace S. Richmond

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An Angel in Disguise by T. S. Arthur — An Orphaned Girl Transforms a Childless Home

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A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce — A Soldier Must Choose Between Duty and His Father

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The Law of Life by Jack London — When the Fire Burns Low

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The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame — A Peace-Loving Dragon Would Rather Discuss Poetry

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Old Well-Well by Zane Grey — Baseball’s Greatest Fan Watches His Protégé Come to Bat

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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway — A Couple Debates a Decision Neither Will Name

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Clovis on Parental Responsibility by Saki — Clovis Takes On an Overly Proud Mother

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain — A Gambler, a Frog and One Very Heavy Surprise

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The Skylight Room by O. Henry — A Poor Young Woman Finds Hope Through a Skylight

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The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell — A Celebrated Hunter Becomes the Prey

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The Willow Walk by Sinclair Lewis — A Bank Robber Invents a Twin—and Becomes Him

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Doctor Chevalier’s Lie by Kate Chopin — Sometimes a Lie Is Kinder Than the Truth

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Hands by Sherwood Anderson — A Gentle Teacher’s Hands Become His Ruin

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An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr — A Hateful Marriage Ends on a Deadly Mountain Pass

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Good Souls by Dorothy Parker — Everyone Should Love Them—So Why Doesn’t Anyone?

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A Handful of Clay by Henry van Dyke — A Lump of Clay Dreams of Becoming Something Beautiful

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The Idyl of Red Gulch by Bret Harte — A Schoolmistress Finds a Drunk and a Child in a Mining Camp

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The Last Leaf by O. Henry — An Artist’s Final Masterpiece Gives a Dying Woman Hope

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Araby by James Joyce — A Boy’s Romantic Quest Ends in a Darkened Bazaar

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A Case of Premeditation by R. Austin Freeman — Can an Almost Perfect Murder Be Solved?