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The Cost of Wanting More

A New Tales Told Original Fiction Sample

A Wager Against the World

A New Tales Told Speculative Fiction Sample

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

Without individual compassion, the good, old days were rarely good for orphaned or disabled children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Early in the US Civil War, families, particularly those in the western part of Virginia (now the state of West Virginia), were torn apart over conflicting loyalties. This story is a fictional account of one young soldier who chose to fight for his country rather than his state. Ambrose served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He became the most famous Civil War storyteller of all time. This story was first published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1889. Years later, Bierce vanished while...

When the Fire Burns Low

Not all dragons are fire breathing monsters bent on destruction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professional baseball in United States dates back more than 150 years. It has been considered the great American sport since the 19th century. Popular sports attract rabid fans as was the case even back in 1910 when Zane Grey wrote Old Well Well. Known for his Western novels, Zane Gray was one of the most popular authors of the 20th century. Gray was also a huge baseball fan and published a number of stories about the sport. One of the first American authors to become a millionaire, more than 1...

One of the greatest short stories of all time.

Saki's recurring character, Clovis takes on an overly proud mother Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Twain's first popular story of a hardcore gambler in a mining camp during the Gold Rush. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Life in the big city can be challenging.

This thriller is one of the most popular stories of all time.

A powerful thriller from a Nobel Prize winning author.

Sometimes a lie is kinder than the truth.

How can we tell the difference between benevolence and predation? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when hate overwhelms love? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have every reason to love these people, yet we don't. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every day we are bombarded by images of unattainable beauty, regaled with stories of fame, and envious of those who have attained great wealth. It’s easy to lose sight of our important contributions to the world and those around us. No matter how we have ended up , we all started as a figurative "handful of clay." Henry van Dyke was a well-known clergyman, English professor, and author. He spent almost a quarter century teach English Literature at Princeton, while writing numerous short stories...

A young woman stumbles upon a drunk with whom she forms a bond until she learns more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A sick young woman is saved by a final kind gesture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Joyce’s “Araby” is ranked among the pantheon of greatest short stories ever written. In this timeless coming of age tale an adolescent boy, blinded by a hormonal fog, falls for a neighbor girl. Now considered one of the classics of literature, the 1914 collection of short stories, Dubliners, of which “Araby” was an early part was an initial failure selling less than 400 copies. Of those almost a third were purchased Joyce himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...