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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.


Friend Island

published  in All-Story Weekly September 7, 1918 Francis Stevens (real name Gertrude Barrows Bennett, 1884–1948) t was upon the waterfront ...

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 ...

The Vixen

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

Cougar Kitty

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

The Trailor Murder Mystery

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

England is My Village

by John Llewelyn Rhys (1911-1940) WHEN the Old Man came into the ante-room the young officers began to rise in ...

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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Scarface

SCARFACE, a short mafia novel by Maurice R. Coons (1902-1930) CHAPTER I Tony Guarino, destined to be the greatest of ...
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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 ...

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, ...

Breakfast On Colossus

by Angel Uriel Perales Here they come again, the bristled hyenas, skulking, yipping around the standing ankles, laughing, in their ...

To the Harvard Pathologist who Sold Body-Parts Online

Dusk swallows modernity, pimpled students withdraw to their own future, and ancient winds swirl the leaves over cobblestones. It is ...
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