CHAPTER ILakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, whic...Full Article
The stirring part of this celebrated colored mans life properly began with his death -- that is to say, the notable features of his biography began with the first time he died. He had been little hear...Full Article
MONDAY -- This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I dont like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the ...Full Article
SATURDAY -- I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should r...Full Article
These two were distantly related to each other -- seventh cousins, or something of that sort. While still babies they became orphans, and were adopted by the Brants, a childless couple, who quickly gr...Full Article
CHAPTER IMy father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large word...Full Article
I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala. I interchanged a few words with him or with his wife at the hospice at the top of the Splugen; and I became ...Full Article
I would wish to declare at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the Ancients. Do not let professional geograp...Full Article
The young soldier clambered from the back of the jeep and stretched in the hot sun before gathering together his kitbag, pack and rifle. It was still early, but the day promised to burn. The jeep driv...Full Article
Peter was a bastard: the result of a rapid union on a dusty road somewhere in Galicia in the summer of 1919. We begin with a convoy of carts creeping along between fields of g...Full Article
Outside of what was left of Atlanta, they discovered the great brick house, hidden in a thick grove of walnut trees. The grass was so high in the yard around it that the blades had fallen over into br...Full Article
Spring is not meant to be cold. This is what Ella thought as she bent over and picked up the sleeping stones she had placed outside several days ago. The way the sun was shining made her feel as if th...Full Article
The 29th Alabama Infantry was a rough outfit. Even before they moved into camp, their reputation as hardened fighters preceded them, causing a number of anxious conversations among the North Carolinia...Full Article
Lark Jenkins and Company G had survived many ordeals, ranging from Culps Hill at Gettysburg to more ordinary things like worms in their corn ration or putrid meat. They had even survived reorganizatio...Full Article
The sky was a pale pink arc, slowly sinking beneath a growing blackness. Kimble stared at it and thought it a rarity; much more aesthetically pleasing than most sunsets; more vivid, and intense; much ...Full Article
That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didnt care for bugs much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few spiders ...Full Article
A street, like many other streets. It could be almost anywhere. Though, of course, its not. Its here. But it could be almost anywhere. Its dusk, so lights are coming on in the neat row of plush terrac...Full Article
Mavis Mwete closed her reader with a sigh of relief and heaved her considerable bulk out of the desk at the Adult Education centre. All her fellow students found these desks t...Full Article
The first we saw of the Carpet King was a cloud of dust coming along the road to the farm. My mother was sitting on the step, picking stones out of the dried beans in a big enamel bowl on her lap. &nb...Full Article
One night, when I was ten, my father came home from work carrying a tortoise under his arm. With difficulty. It was the biggest tortoise Id ever seen. He placed it on the kitc...Full Article
