Listen to this ghost story. First time I heard the ghost story "Where is my golden arm?" I could not sleep for days. This ending suggested by Mark Twain will kill me for sure. picked by myrthachang 3 years ago

There were more "leetle grey cells" than anyone dreamed of: two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot stories have emerged from a mass of family papers at Agatha Christie's favourite home.
Both unpublished works are short stories, the form in which the author often worked out details of characters and plots, before rethreading them as full-length novels. picked by bingo 6 months ago

News stories from around the world that got little attention. picked by wags273 2 years ago

They will say they cost 1 cent but at check-out you will get a penny discount. Best option, select paypal as your method of payment even if you don't have a paypal account. Stories by Vonnegut, Twain, L'Amour, and more picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Most ghost stories end with a scream. This one makes me chuckle. Good for the younger kids... picked by myrthachang 2 years ago

Ready to hear some crazy stories concerning some of the best rednecks? picked by KingGolathE 11 months ago

Stories (ostensibly true
stories), boiled down to the absolute bare
essentials. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Submit a title and one of the authors of Name Your Tale will write a 100-word short story for you, based on your title.

On the site, you can read stories including "Andrew Received Cancer," "The Day the Internet Stopped," and "Who Cares." picked by bingo 8 months ago

Taking our favorite stories and correcting them to ridiculous proportions. picked by Neiako 3 years ago

Love the tips on how to end a ghost story with a bang, especially that wild flashlight in the face one. picked by myrthachang 3 years ago

Ten interesting stories and trivial bits about the stories from one of the world's favorite authors. picked by cmgoings 10 months ago

You saw the stories that dominated the headlines in 2006: the war in Iraq, North Korea’s nuclear tests, and the U.S. midterm elections. But what about the news that remained under the radar? picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

creeeeeeeeepy!! picked by suebe 3 years ago

Grim-faced and sorrowful, former soldiers and Marines sat before an audience of several hundred yesterday in Silver Spring and shared their recollections of their service in Iraq. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
By Ernest Hemingway. He called it his best work.

"Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time"
By Alan Moore

Other famous writers have been asked to try to put together a story in 6 words. They're all really fabulous. picked by genkan 2 years ago

The boy's prone outline stamped into the soft ground shows his weight was more or less evenly distributed so the force on his body would be dispersed.
(article with crazy pic of the crater made when he landed) picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago

The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. Really a huge collection of children stories and poems picked by bernardblack 1 year ago

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul Revere was a Civil War casualty. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

Sex is gross and weird enough without some total moron winding up in the emergency room.

NSFW text picked by TheAdversary 9 months ago

Despite her effort to keep her real name secret, people started to figure out who PittGirl was. But such identities can easily be merged -- either through the judicial process or by using technology. picked by JoshSF49 3 months ago