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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is considered the father of the Japanese short story. He was born in Tokyo. Sadly, he committed suicide at the age of 35. We feature one of his most famous stories, Rashomon. It is an evocative tale of a lowly servant who steals the kimono from an old woman.


Behind the Curtain

published in All-Story Weekly, September 21, 1918 by Francis Stevens (real name Gertrude Barrows Bennett, 1884–1948) t was after nine o’clock ...
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The Vixen

By Aleister Crowley atricia Fleming threw the reins to a groom, and ran up the steps into the great house, ...
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Cougar Kitty

By Margie Harris, Mobs magazine 1930(Courtesy of John Locke. His collection of her stories is available from Amazon) A mystery ...
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The Trailor Murder Mystery

n the year 1841, there resided, at different points in the State of Illinois, three brothers by the name of ...
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The Grand Concourse

by Jacob M. Appel o celebrate her sixtieth birthday—she is now older than her parents when they died—my mother asks ...
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Deception

magine traveling through space at lightening speed, exploring the deep recesses of the universe to unveil her deepest secrets. "Are ...
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Acute deafness

by Michael Wynn (the author's own translation from Norwegian) When an old woman dies, her face is washed in the ...
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The Salesman

by Michael Wynn (the author's own translation from Norwegian) A man takes a sip of water and moves from the ...
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I

by Padma Devkota I am the dust raised by the rolling wheels of sun and stars as they cruise across ...
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Forked Tongues of the Gorgon

by Angel Uriel Perales I, Africanus, not counted among the glorious thirteen, bereft yet of proper name and human dignity, ...
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