Short Story titles at manybooks.net http://manybooks.net/ New Short Story additions to the manybooks.net library. Thousands of free books, pre-formatted for reading on your PDA - eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, or zTXT eBooks for your Palm, Pocket PC, Zaurus or Rocketbook! en-us webmaster@manybooks.net Sun, 19 May 13 09:01:32 -0600 <![CDATA[The Hero]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wilbere3577035770.html Author: Elaine Wilber

Language: English

Published: 1958

A short story transcribed from If Worlds of Science Fiction February 1958

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wilbere3577035770.html <![CDATA[Christmas Stories]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/berense3539735397.html Author: Edward Berens

Language: English

Published: 1823

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/berense3539735397.html <![CDATA[Silver Pitchers: and Independence]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/alcottlo3492034920.html Author: Louisa May Alcott

Language: English

Published: 1888

A collection of short stories including Anna's Whim, By the River and Scarlet Stockings.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/alcottlo3492034920.html <![CDATA[Our Katie]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/anonymous3575735757.html Author: Anonymous

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/anonymous3575735757.html <![CDATA[Security Risk]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/clintone3575935759-8.html Author: E.M. Clinton, Jr.

Language: English

It was a touchable touching an untouchable. Both scientist and general were doing their own version of right....

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/clintone3575935759-8.html <![CDATA[Schism]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wagardother10Schism.html

A short story based on the space trading game Oolite

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2010

Lumbering through the depths of space are the Generation Ships; huge self contained transports driving between the stars at sublight speeds in the midst of thousand year journeys to populate new planets. After 30 generations, a staggering and devastating truth is revealed to the occupants of one such ship

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wagardother10Schism.html <![CDATA[Underneath]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/burkekpother10underneath.html

Author: Kealan Patrick Burke

Language: English

Published: 2010

For Dean, it begins with a dare, one that comes with the threat of violence if he chickens out. All he has to do is date Stephanie Watts, a disfigured girl who is the pariah at their high school. Dean agrees, and soon discovers that there is much more to Stephanie Watts than anyone dared imagine, and deadlier secrets awaiting him...underneath. A free short story from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY, THE HIDES, and VESSELS.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/burkekpother10underneath.html <![CDATA[Die Verdorrten]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/weisse3469634696-8.html Author: Ernst Weiß

Language: German

Published: 1921

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/weisse3469634696-8.html <![CDATA[Wenn mein Herz gesund wär]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/lasker-schulere3469534695-8.html Author: Else Lasker-Schüler

Language: German

Published: 1921

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/lasker-schulere3469534695-8.html <![CDATA[Der Rubin]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/sackg3469434694-8.html Author: Gustav Sack

Language: German

Published: 1921

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/sackg3469434694-8.html <![CDATA[Michael Godwin's Xmas Box]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/tynankother101000251.html Author: Katharine Tynan

Language: English

Published: 1911

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/tynankother101000251.html <![CDATA[This is not a Story]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/diderot3454434544-8.html Original French title: Ceci n'est pas un conte

Author: Denis Diderot

Language: English

Published: 1798

Translation into English by Peter Phalen, 2010.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/diderot3454434544-8.html <![CDATA[Fancy's Show-Box]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92089208.html From ''Twice Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92089208.html <![CDATA[The Haunted Mind]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92099209.html From ''Twice Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92099209.html <![CDATA[Little Annie's Ramble]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92029202.html From ''Twice Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92029202.html <![CDATA[The Prophetic Pictures]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92049204.html From ''Twice Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92049204.html <![CDATA[A Rill from the Town Pump]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92039203.html From ''Twice-Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92039203.html <![CDATA[Sights from a Steeple]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92059205.html From ''Twice-Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92059205.html <![CDATA[Sunday at Home]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92019201.html From ''Twice-Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92019201.html <![CDATA[The Toll Gatherer's Day]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92069206.html From ''Twice-Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92069206.html <![CDATA[The Vision of the Fountain]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92079207.html From ''Twice-Told Tales''

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/hawthornen92079207.html <![CDATA[Riya's Foundling]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/budrysa3442034420.html

Author: Algirdas Jonas Budrys

Language: English

Published: 1953

Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a "person" ...

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/budrysa3442034420.html <![CDATA[The Supply at Saint Agatha's]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/phelpse3425634256-8.html

Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Language: English

Published: 1896

The setting of the story is vigorous and skillful, the narrative is rapid and engrossingly interesting, and the revelation of the "Supply" reaches to the inmost thoughts and emotions of men.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/phelpse3425634256-8.html <![CDATA[Tricky Tonnage]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jamesonmalother100608381.html Author: Malcolm Jameson

Language: English

Published: 1944

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jamesonmalother100608381.html <![CDATA[Children of the Betsy B]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jamesonmalother100608361.html Author: Malcolm Jameson

Language: English

Published: 1939

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jamesonmalother100608361.html <![CDATA[Replay]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wagardother10replay.html

A short story based on the space trading game Oolite.

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2009

Things aren't always what they seem...

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wagardother10replay.html <![CDATA[My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/allengraother10new_years_among_mummies.html Author: Grant Allen

Language: English

Published: 1880

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/allengraother10new_years_among_mummies.html <![CDATA[Nine]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wagardother10Nine.html

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2010

The story of an attempt to reach the 'ninth' chart. As players familiar with Elite and Oolite will doubtless know, there are only eight charts reachable by Galactic Hyperspace. Does the ninth chart exist? Can it be reached? If so, what's there? This is a slightly chilling tale of the 'Ooniverse.'

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wagardother10Nine.html <![CDATA[The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Spooks]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/bangsjohother10amalgamated.html Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Language: English

Published: 1901

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/bangsjohother10amalgamated.html <![CDATA[The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/millerl3389833898.html

Author: Lewis Miller

Language: English

Published: 1916

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