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Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get. As Monsieur Morissot, watchmaker by profession and idler for the nonce, was strolling along the boulevard one bright...
France
We used to jump, Lydia and I, as high and as often as we could, hands high over our heads, wearing colourful dresses, our knees pulled up, our feet in stout shoes we were allowed to keep on while jumping, though they sometimes came loose and fell off....
Germany
When you look at things from outside, everything seems like a sort of colorful jigsaw. A mosaic of price stickers covers the products in the supermarket: the oldest are white, the two-week-old ones are yellow, and the newest are red. The canned goods are sown with green stickers...
Israel
When she opened the door and saw him standing there she was more pleased than ever before, and he, too, as he followed her into the studio, seemed very very happy to have come. “Not busy?” “No. Just going to have tea.” “And you are not expecting anybody?”...
New Zealand
It was one of the secret opinions, such as we all have, of Peter Brench that his main success in life would have consisted in his never having committed himself about the work, as it was called, of his friend, Morgan Mallow. This was a subject on which...
UK
For Isa and Germán She was going to get married, she said. And then she started to laugh. She’d decided to drop out of university halfway through the year, weren’t expecting that, were we? Sofia blurted it out all in one go without stopping for breath. She...
Spain
Para D.G.E. “You may still think true friendship is a lie. But then, you’ve never met Bill Burton,” was a phrase often repeated by Samuel Weinstein. Indeed, you could consider it his motto. He would often use it with his wife as a justification for some forgotten...
Mexico
Someone had knocked at the door, quite gently, but the doctor awoke at once, turned on the light, and sat up in bed. He glanced at his wife who was sleeping quietly, picked up his dressing-gown, and went into the hall. He did not at once recognise the...
Austria
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Germany
Rainer Maria Rilke
7 min
7 min
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Franz Kafka
2 min
2 min
USA
Edgar Allan Poe
28 min
28 min
USA
Ambrose Bierce
11 min
11 min
Russia
Anton Chekhov
7 min
7 min
USA
O. Henry
16 min
16 min
France
Guy de Maupassant
8 min
8 min
My son’s Tamagotchi had AIDS. The virtual pet was rendered on the little LCD screen with no more than 30 pixels, but the sickness was obvious. It had that AIDS look, you know? It was thinner than it had been. Some of its pixels were faded, and the pupils of its huge eyes were smaller, giving it an empty stare
/ Tamagotchi
They talked about various ailments, and each spoke of his own, and when they separated they did so with a prolonged pressure of the hand, but they quite forgot to ask each other’s name
/ The City
They fret over husbands, who have been left at home with nothing in the refrigerator. Cats are likely pawing the heavy leg-s of couches. The couches will never survive the absence of the grandmothers. This will be the end of the couches
/ Safe Passage
No, I don’t know if I can make myself understood, nor whether my discomfiture actually stands in relation to your microwave, insofar as the latter ever stood in the discrete relationship to the objects and events in my unit as I suspected? In so saying, I won’t deny that a telephone call would have been a better way to articulate my malaise
/ Your Microwave
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Oscar Wilde
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Yukio Mishima
24 min
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Guy de Maupassant
8 min
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Leonid Andreyev
5 min
5 min
Mexico
Juan Rulfo
6 min
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USA
O. Henry
10 min
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Giovanni Carmelo Verga
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Ernest Hemingway
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William Somerset Maugham
60 min
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Washington Irving
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