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'You bad dog'

from Gertrude Stein, Three Lives (1909)

Anna led an arduous and troubled life.

Anna managed the whole little house for Miss Mathilda. It was a funny little house, one of a whole row of all the same kind that made a close pile like a ro...

5 days ago

Unfortunate umpires

From Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

The Story So Far…

The mechanic Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American, has somehow been transported to sixth-century England. Never seeing a problem that can’t...

12 days ago

A king's plea for sleep

The Story So Far…

With the future of Henry IV’s kingdom uncertain, and his fears refusing to be quelled, the king is left to wonder how sleep, which is granted to the humblest of his subjects, can remain beyond the reach of royal power....

19 days ago

Smoke and Rivers (and a Squirrel!)

From Zitkala-Ša, American Indian Stories (1921)

Early in the cool mornings, just as the yellow rim of the sun rose above the hills, we were up and eating our breakfast. We awoke so early that we saw the sacred hour when a misty smoke hun...

a month ago

Wild violets

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 'Sonnet'

I had not thought of violets late,

The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feet

In wistful April days, when lovers mate

And wander through the fields in raptures sweet.

The thought of violets...

a month ago

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