短篇小说 | Hostages to Momus

2020年3月5日

I never got inside of the legitimate line of graft but once. But, one time, as I say, I reversed the decision of the revised statutes and undertook a thing that I'd have to apologize for even under the New Jersey trust laws.

短篇小说 | The Storm

2020年3月5日

Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety. She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine.

短篇小说 | X-ing a Paragrab

2020年3月4日

AS it is well known that the 'wise men' came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it -- Mr. B. was an editor.

短篇小说 | William Wilson

2020年3月3日

"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead -- dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist -- and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."

短篇小说 | The Recovery

2020年3月3日

She was a woman of thirty-five, possessing something of youthfulness. It was not the bloom, the softness, nor delicacy of coloring which had once been hers; those were all gone.

短篇小说 | He Also Serves

2020年3月2日

If I could have a thousand years--just one little thousand years--more of life, I might, in that time, draw near enough to true Romance to touch the hem of her robe.

短篇小说 | The Locket

2020年3月2日

One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march.