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The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Every Writer

The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this

Thanksgiving at the Polls by Edward Everett Hale

Posted on November 22, 2023November 22, 2023 by Every Writer

Frederick Dane was on his way towards what he called his home. His home, alas, was but an indifferent attic in one of the southern suburbs of Boston.

The Skylight Room by O.Henry

Posted on November 11, 2023November 11, 2023 by Every Writer

The Skylight Room by O.Henry First Mrs. Parker would show you the double parlours. You would not dare to interrupt

An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Every Writer

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories who was considered one

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott

Posted on November 5, 2023November 5, 2023 by Every Writer

“Yes’m,” answered two meek voices, and after a few irrepressible giggles, silence reigned, broken only by an occasional snore from the boys, or the soft scurry of mice in the buttery, taking their part in this old-fashioned Thanksgiving.

The Mummy’s Foot Théophile Gautier

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Every Writer

I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-à-brac in that Parisian

The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Every Writer

William Legrand, who discovers a peculiar gold-colored beetle while on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. Legrand is obsessed with the scarab beetle and makes drawings of it. Later, Legrand receives a scrap of parchment paper with a cryptic coded

A Nightmare by Anton Chekhov

Posted on October 22, 2023May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

Kunin, a wealthy landowner and member of the Rural Board, invites Father Yakov, the young village priest, to discuss opening a church school. Kunin is shocked by Father Yakov’s shabby appearance and lack of dignity, seeing him as unfit for the priesthood.