Short Stories

Little Red Riding Hood is a well known fairytale/folktale with a story of little girl in red who goes to grandmother's house to bring her food. Along the way she encounters the big bad wolf and he pre…

"Death is the great leveler." \- Claudian. Perhaps this quote is a bit too harsh, but for some, death is the only revenge. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor is revealed as such …

Though Lusus Naturae, by Margaret Atwood, is a fictional short story that deals with a mythical creature as its main character, it also can relate to issues that exist still in the real world today. T…

What makes someone different from another person? Their similarities? Or, their differences? Their qualities? Their character? What sets them apart from another? Richard Wagamese's short story "The An…

Imagine knowing your last day on this planet. It could be today, tomorrow, or within years. Yet no one knows when this day will come, until it happens. This is a matter of time. Time is an unstoppable…

Countless fiction stories are read in a "one conflict, then solved" way. Readers of those stories will encounter a conflict and a resolution, the basic structure of a story. However, Richard Connell, …

"My Favorite Chaperone" is a work of fiction and is a short story written by, Jean Davies Okimoto. In the story a teenage girl from, Kyrgyzstan wants to be a typical American teenager, but she is stru…

A classic tale of being lost at sea has been told before but not with the same depth and purpose The Cay possess. While reading, I was drawn to how the characters weren't simply lost but seemed to cre…

"Can we get something to eat? I'm so hungry I feel like I'm starving!" I exclaimed to my dad "my last meal was three hours ago!" I never actually experienced the real pain of not having a meal for a d…

Imagine your heartbeat fastens though you don't know why and you begin to feel fear. Then grim reality hits you and you hear a sound approaching you step by step until it hits you can't see or feel w…