Barbara Baynton – The Chosen Vessel
She laid the stick and her baby on the grass while she untied the rope that tethered the calf. The length of the rope...
Wislawa Szymborska – Writing a résumé
What needs to be done?
Fill out the application
and enclose a résumé.
Regardless of the length of life
a résumé is best kept short.
Concise, well-chosen facts are...
Gertrude Stein – Johnny Grey
What did he say. I was disagreeing with him.
He said he didn't have it by his side.
He said.
Hurry.
Eat it.
I am not going to talk...
Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and the baby.
It made her laugh to think of Désirée...
T. S. Eliot – Eeldrop and Appleplex
I
Eeldrop and Appleplex rented two small rooms in a disreputable part of town. Here they sometimes came at nightfall, here they sometimes slept, and...
James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard...
Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman--
"We...
Gertrude Stein – Every Afternoon: a Dialogue
I get up.
So do you get up.
We are pleased with each other.
Why are you.
Because we are hopeful.
Have you any reason to be.
We have reason...
H.G. Wells – The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for...
Saki – The Open Window
"My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the meantime you must try and put...
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Rishi Dastidar – Come on abacus
Common sense-ism tells us
all this look at me energy,
this childish hope that we
might belong to somewhere,
someone, has to be expended
before we get given...
