Thousands of great short stories can be found in American Literature's Short Story Library, including many of the greatest short stories ever written. Our collection continues to expand and we also feature a Short Story of the Day.

Short Stories, poetry, novels, and interesting propaganda conveying the cruel realities of a new kind of war. 75 Short Short Stories Great stories to enjoy when you have five minutes: witty, introspective, morality tales, sci-fi, feel-good, drama, and farce.

Short Stories to enjoy when you have 5 minutes to spare, sorted by category so you can find what suits your mood. Stories average 1,000 words, including morality tales, feel-good/love stories, other-worldly stories, witty stories, dramatic stories, and farce/political stories.

Jun 21, 2017 · Read one of these classic short stories each day for 20 days, and you’ll have a great sense of the variety, richness, and evolution of American fiction, from the Romantic era beginning in 1820 right through the late Gilded Age, ending in the first few years of …

An anthology edited by Heidi Pitlor and prolific authors such as Min Jin Lee, Jane Smiley, Anthony Doerr, Raymond Carver, Amy Tan, Junot Diaz, T.C. Boyle, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and more, the BASS collects the year's best short stories by contemporary American writers. Listing 2397 stories.

A curated collection of American Literature. Hundreds of short stories and audio editions from classic heavy weights like Twain, Hawthorne, Poe and Porter, to contemporary stars like Miranda July, Denis Johnson, Tobias Wolf and more.

Looking for great American short stories you can read for free? Whether they’re written by American authors, set in the USA, or just have that ever-elusive quality of Americana, this is the page you’re looking for.

The Short Story America Classics Library features hundreds of stories, by American and World authors. From familiar favorites to those you may not have discovered yet, all of these tales are well worth reading, remembering, studying or discussing with friends or classmates.

Here is a list of 30 great american short stories to read. If you want to read any of them go to the source or the link below. On the site it only says 20 stories but I added the other short story stories paired in the descriptions and they listed three short stories by the same author as only one.

Read For Free, Anywhere, Anytime. An online library of over 1000 classic short stories. H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter.