Short Stories

How To Write Short Stories, with examples

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Ring Lardner


Here are 10 humorous short stories by Ring Lardner (March 5, 1885 – September 25, 1933), an American sports columnist and short-story writer…

At the Bay

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)


Katherine Mansfield


Katherine Mansfield was prominent Modernist writer of short fiction. This a ninety minute story from her collection of The Garden Party.

Every Photo Tells... Book 1

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Katharina Bordet


Kilted pirate Greenbeard's last voyage turns up some unexpected surprises... Who is behind the murder at the Eagle Cave? Love crops up when …

Ruby Wedding Collection

Read by Ruth Golding


Various


This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The read…

Love Stories Volume 3

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Various


Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, covering all kinds of experiences involving romantic or other kinds of love resulting in h…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 009

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Various


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 009: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Story Collection Vol. 029

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Various


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 029: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Told in the Coffee House

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Cyrus Adler


In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are u…

Humorous Readings and Recitations

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Leopold Wagner


Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…

Short Story Collection Vol. 075

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Various


A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Carolyn Wells,…

Coffee Break Collection 024 - Ghosts, Ghouls and Spooky Things

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Various


This is the twenty-fourth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes…

Short Story Collection Vol. 033

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 033: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

A to Zed Collection Vol. 001

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Various


A collection of pieces, both fiction and non-fiction, that have as its subject a word beginning with a specific letter of the English alphab…

Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)

Read by Phil Benson


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her sho…

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

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Various


Librivox readers have come together to bring you another diverse collection of short stories. This anthology brings you selections from Thom…

Coffee Break Collection 017 - Health and Fitness

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Various


This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes o…

3 Dooms of America

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Eugene Fairfield


"Prophecy is not a prediction of tomorrow. It is a description of the doom contained within today." Three stories of the end of Am…

Short Story Collection Vol. 076

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Various


A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the annals of Arthur Conan …

A Budget of Christmas Tales

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Various and Charles Dickens


This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent f…

Edgewater People

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of a few small New England villages at the turn of the last century. (Sum…

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