Committed: A Short Storyby N. PrimakRobert loves Layla more than anything, although she never returned his feelings. When she commits suicide, the tragedy is all that the teen can think about. Robert is convinced that Layla’s previous boyfriend was the reason...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle A delight for a public which enjoys incident mystery and above all that matching of the wits of a clever man against the dumb resistance of the secrecy of inanimate things which results in the triumph of the...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon...
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft Three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. Piecing together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses the...
I, Robot by Cory Doctorow I, Robot’ is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The...
