Seumas O’Kelly – The Derelict
He Boss of The Golden Barque was very pleased when he was able to resume business on her deck. He was likewise pleased that...
Herbert George Wells – The Magic Shop
I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects,...
Robert E. Howard – The One Black Stain
They carried him out on the barren sand
where the rebel captains died;
Where the grim gray rotting gibbets stand
as Magellan reared them on the strand,
And...
Lord Dunsany – The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
I often think of the Bureau d'Echange de Maux and the wondrously evil old man that sate therein. It stood in a little street...
Jorge Luis Borges – Borges and me
To the other, to Borges, it is to whom things happen. I walk through Buenos Aires and take long hours, even already mechanically, to...
Sherwood Anderson – Respectability. Wash Williams
If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner...
Virginia Woolf – The Watering Place
Like all seaside towns it was pervaded by the smell of fish. The toy shops were full of shells, varnished, hard yet fragile. Even...
H.P. Lovecraft – The Outsider
That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe;
And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form
Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm,
Were long be-nightmared.
—Keats.
Unhappy...
Seumas O’Kelly – Billy the Clown
It came to pass that one day The Golden Barque was transformed into a temporary work-boat. The Boss. Hike, Calcutta, and the pock-marked man...
Oscar Wilde – The Nightingale and the Rose
'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there...
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Nenad Joldeski – You
you have pulled every hair from your body
and planted them in dry earth
you tell yourself that one day maybe something will sprout
that it will...
