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Aiken, Conrad 'Silent Snow, Secret Snow' (online read: c. 6000 words)

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Anderson, Sherwood 'The Dumb Man' (c. 500 words)

Ade, George 'The Collision' (c. 1500 words)

Ade, George 'The Divine Spark' (c. 1000 words)

Ade, George 'The Juvenile and Mankind' (c. 500 words)

Antsey, F. 'Marjory' (c. 8500 words)

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Baldwin, James 'Bruce and the Spider' (c. 500 words)

Baldwin, James 'The Bell of Atri' (c. 500 words)

Baldwin, James 'Casablanca' (c. 500 words)

Baldwin, James 'Antonio Canova' (c. yard words)

Baldwin, James 'Arnold Winkelried' (c. 500 words)

Baldwin, James 'Physician Goldsmith' (c. 500 words)

Baldwin, James 'The Endless Tale' (c. 1000 words)

Balzac, Honore de 'The Induct' (c. 6000 words)

Balzac, Honore de 'Innocence' (c. 1000 words)

Balzac, Honore de 'The Devil'due south Heir' (c. 6500 words)

Bierce, Ambrose 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek' (c. 3000 words)

Bierce, Ambrose 'Oil of Canis familiaris' (c. 1500 words)

Dark-brown, Alice 'Broke' (c. 7500 words)

Brownish, Alice 'Heartease' (c. 3500 words)

Chocolate-brown, Alice 'The Advocate' (c. 4500 words)

Brown, Alice 'The End of All Living' (c. 7000 words)

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Chekhov, Anton 'The Bet' (c. 3000 words)

Chekhov, Anton 'The Lottery Ticket' (c. 2000 words)

Chekhov, Anton 'Nigh Honey' (c. 4000 words)

Chekhov, Anton 'An Actor'south Stop' (c. 2500 words)

Chekhov, Anton 'Art' (c. 2500 words)

Chekhov, Anton 'An Avenger' (c. 2000 words)

Chesterton, Grand. Grand. 'The Blue Cross' (c. 7500 words)

Chesterton, Chiliad. K. 'The Abysmal Well' (c. 6500 words)

Chesterton, G. Yard. 'The Eye of Apollo' (c. 6000 words)

Chesterton, G. K. 'The God of Gongs' (c. 6000 words)

Chesterton, G. Grand.  'The Hammer of God' (c. 6500 words)

Chesterton, G. K. 'The Majestic Wig' (c. 5500 words)

Collins, Willie 'A Fair Penitent' (c. 4500 words)

Conrad, Joseph 'An Anarchist' (c. 8500 words)

Crane, Stephen 'A Desertion' (c. 1500 words)

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Defoe, Daniel 'The Apparition of Mrs Veal' (c. 3500 words)

De Mille, James 'The Artist of Florence' (c. 7000 words)

De Quincey, Thomas 'Love-Charm' (c. 13,000 words)

De Quincey, Thomas 'The Avenger' (c. 19,000 words)

Dickens, Charles 'The Black Veil' (c. 4500 words))

Dickens, Charles 'Criminal Courts' (c. 2000 words)

Dickens, Charles 'Down with the Taid' (c. 4000 words)

Dickens, Charles 'The Ghost of Art' (c. 2500 words)

Dickens, Charles 'The Baron of Grogswig' (c. 4000 words)

Dickens, Charles 'The Child's Story' (c. 2000 words)

Dahl, Roald 'Lamb to the Slaughter' (c. 3000 words)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 'The Dreams of a Ridiculous Homo' (c. 8500 words)

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Eliot, T. S. 'Eeldrop and Appleplex' (c. 3000 words)

Eggleston, Edward 'A Basement Story' (c. 6500 words)

Eggleston, Edward 'Adventures in Alaska' (c. 1500 words)

Eliot, George 'Blood brother Jacob' (c. 17,000 words)

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Field, Eugene 'Daniel and the Devil' (c. 3000 words)

Field, Eugene 'Death and the Soldier' (c. 1500 words)

Flaubert, Gustave 'The Dance of Decease' (c. 3000 words)

Freeman, Mary 'A New England Nun' (c. 5000 words)

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Galsworthy, John 'The Knight' (c. xiii,000 words)

Galsworthy, John 'The Stoic' (c. 30,000 words)

Goldsworthy, John 'The Silence' (c. 8000 words)

Goethe, Johann 'New Paris' (c. 5500 words)

Gogol, Nikolai 'The Clash' (c. 4500 words)

Gaskell, Elizabeth 'An Accursed Race' (c. 6500 words)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (c. 6000 words)

Greene, Graham 'The End of the Political party' ( c. 3500 words)

Gissing, George 'A Capitalist' (c. 5500 words)

Gissing, George 'The Firm Of Cobwebs' (c. 8000 words)

Gissing, George 'The Salt of the Earth' (c. 4000 words)

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Hardy, Thomas 'The Grave by the Handpost' (c. 4000 words)

Hardy, Thomas 'The Three Strangers' c. 8500 words)

Harte, Bret 'An Heiress of a Reddish Dog' (c. 5500 words)

Harte, Bret 'Under Karl' (c. 6500 words)

Harte, Bret 'Who Was My Tranquility Friend?' (c. 3000 words)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 'The Wedding-Knell' (c. 3000 words)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 'The Ambitious Guest' (c. 3500 words)

Henry, O 'The Gift of the Magi' (c. 2000 words)

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Irving, Washington 'Conspiracy of the Artsy Hats' (c. 2000 words)

Irving, Washington 'Little Great britain' (c. 5000 words)

Irving, Washington 'The Bermudas' (c. 2500 words)

Irving, Washington 'The Birds of Leap' (c. 2000 words)

Irving, Washington 'The Fable of the Sleepy Hollow' (c. 12,000 words)

Ing, Charles 'Tight Clasp' (c. 6000 words)

Ingelow, Jean 'A Last Desire' (c. 8000 words)

Ingelow, Jean 'The Prince's Dream' (c. 3500 words)

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Jacobs, Westward. Due west. 'The Monkey's Mitt' (c. 4000 words)

James, 1000. R. 'Lost Hearts' (c. 4000 words)

Jerome, Jerome K. 'The Man Who Did Not Believe In Luck' (c. 3000 words)

Joyce, James 'Araby' (c. 2500 words)

Joyce, James 'A Picayune Cloud' (c. 5000 words)

Joyce, James 'Later on the Race' (c. 2000 words)

Joyce, James 'An Encounter' (c. 3500 words)

Joyce, James 'Counterparts' (c. 4000 words)

Joyce, James 'Eveline' (c. 2000 words)

Joyce, James 'The Boarding House' (c. 3000 words)

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Kipling, Rudyard 'How the Leopard got his Spots' (c. 2000 words)

Kipling, Rudyard 'Wireless' (c. 6500 words)

Kipling, Rudyard 'A Bank Fraud (c. 2500 words)

Kipling, Rudyard 'Beyond the Stake' (c. 2000 words)

King, Charles 'Starlight Man' (c. 9500 words)

King, Charles 'Van' (c. 8000 words)

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Lawrence, D. H. 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' (c. 7500 words)

London, Jack 'Aloha Oe' (c. 2500 words)

London, Jack 'The Story of Keesh' (c. 3000 words)

London, Jack 'How to Build a Fire' (c. 7000 words)

Lovecraft, H. P. 'The Cats of Ulthar' (c. 1500 words)

Lovecraft, H. P. 'The terrible Old Man' (c. thou words)

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Mansfield, Katherine 'The Stranger' (c. 5000 words)

Mansfield, Katherine 'The Garden Party' (c. 5500 words)

Mansfield, Katherine 'The Voyage' (c. 3000 words)

Mansfield, Katherine 'The Ideal Family' (c. 2500 words)

Mansfield, Katherine 'Miss Brill' (c. 2000 words)

Mansfield, Katherine 'The Singing Lesson' (c. 2000 words)

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 'Eyes of a Blueish Domestic dog' (c. 3000 words)

Maupassant, Guy de 'The Kiss' (c. 1500 words)

Munro, H. H. (SAKI) 'The Mouse' (c. 1500 words)

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Nesbit, Edith 'Acting for the Best' (c. 4500 words)

Nesbit, Edith 'Archibald the Unpleasant' (c. 5000 words)

Nesbit, Edith 'Billy the King' (c. 5500 words)

Norris, Frank 'A Deal in Wheat' (c. 5000 words)

Norris, Frank 'The Married woman of Chino' (c. 5500 words)

Norris, Frank 'Two Hearts That Beat out as Ane' (c. 4000 words)

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Orwell, George 'The Shooting of an Elephant' (c. 2000 words)

Osbourne, Lloyd 'Ben' (c. 6000 words)

Osbourne, Lloyd 'The Aureate Castaways' (c. 3500 words)

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Parker, Dorothy 'A Phone Call' (c. 2500 words)

Poe, Edgar Allan 'The Imp of the Perverse' (c. 2500 words)

Poe, Edgar Allan 'The Affections of Odd' (c. 4000 words)

Poe, Edgar Allan 'The Masque of the Cerise Expiry' (c. 2500 words)

Poe, Edgar Allan 'The Black Cat' (c. 4000 words)

Poe, Edgar Allan 'Four Beasts in I' (c. 3000 words)

Potter, Beatrix 'Ginger and Pickles' (c. 1000 words)

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Quiller-Couch, Arthur 'Elisha' (c. 1500 words)

Quiller-Couch, Arthur 'The Burglary Club' (c. 3000 words)

Quiller-Couch, Arthur 'The Nighttime Mirror' (c. 1000 words)

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Roby, John 'The Goblin Builders' (c. 3500 words)

Ruskin, John 'The Male monarch of the Gilded River' (c. 9000 words)

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Skinner, Charles 'The Clomp of Defeat' (c. 500 words)

Somyonov, S. T. 'The Retainer' (c. 2000 words)

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Twain, Mark 'Luck' (c. 2000 words)

Trollope, Anthony 'George Walker at Suez' (c. 8000 words)

Trollope, Anthony 'Returning Home' (c. 9000 words)

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Van Dyke, Henry 'Ashes of Vengeance' (c. 500 words)

Van Dyke, Henry 'The Art of Leaving Off' (c. 2500 words)

Verne, Jules 'A Drama in the Air' (c. 7000 words)

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Wells, H. G. 'The Crystal Egg' (c. 7000 words)

White, Eastward. B. 'The Door' (c. 2000 words)

Wilde, Oscar 'The Birth of the Infanta' (c. 7500 words)

Williams, William Carlos 'The Use of Force' (c. 1500 words)

Woolf, Virginia 'A Haunted House' (c. chiliad words)

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Yeats, William Butler 'Out of the Rose' (c. 2500 words)

Yeats, William Butler 'The One-time Men of the Twilight' (c. 2000 words)

Yeats, William Butler 'The Twisting of the Rope' (c. 3000 words)

Younger, Charlotte M. 'The Last Fight in the Coliseum' (c. 3000 words)

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Zola, Emile 'Captain Burle' (c. 11, 500 words)

Zola, Emile 'The Inundation' (c. 8000 words)

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