Genre Short

In Old Kentucky

Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents’ house. George leads the search party, but doesn’t reveal his brother’s hiding…

In the Watches of the Night

An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man’s home and is arrested. One of the police officers is an old friend and accompanies Whitney home to allow…

A Wreath in Time

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own elegiac cinerary floral offerings, and at the time John was…

A Drunkard’s Reformation

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he’s supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he’s faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would…

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