UnwroteTales

A curated collection of timeless short stories from writers around the world.

Browse the full collection below. Click any title to read the story.

  • 1 3 1 3 1 3 — Richard Brautigan
  • 10 to the 16 to 1 — James Patrick Kelly
  • 39 — Radu Paraschivescu
  • 20281 — Lyudmila Ulitskaya
  • 59 Places to Fuck in Arizona — Rodge Glass
  • 90 Ahad Haam — Yotam Reuveni
  • A Black Dancer in a One Person Dance Company — Esty G. Haim
  • A Centimetre or Two a Year — Matías Capelli
  • A Child — Erika Olahová
  • A Clean Marriage — Sayaka Murata
  • A Drama in the Air — Jules Verne
  • A Duty Call — Lea Goldberg
  • A Gipsy Prophecy — Bram Stoker
  • A Girl in the Cafe — Ronit Matalon
  • A Grainless Mill — Ziad Abd el-Qadir
  • A Handful of Dirt — Jan Dost
  • A Haunted House — Virginia Woolf
  • A House in the Burbs — Valeria Correa Fiz
  • A Joke — Anton Chekhov
  • A Little Honey — Jáchym Topol
  • A Mighty Nice Man — Patricia Highsmith
  • A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift
  • A Night Visit — Sheikha Hussein Helawy
  • A Play — Anton Chekhov
  • A Pleasant Countenance — Jan Dost
  • A Prison Out of the Movies — Fernanda Melchor
  • A Protracted Evening the Art of the Japanese Writer Yasushi Inoue — Volker Zastrow
  • A Scandal in Bohemia — Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Short Story Writer Who Doesnt Obey Army Orders — Ziad Khadash
  • A Simple Soul — Gustave Flaubert
  • A Story About the Little Rabbits — Joel Chandler Harris
  • A Story of a Sad Vacation — Tamar Levit
  • A Strange Christmas Game — Charlotte Riddell
  • A Toy Princess — Mary de Morgan
  • A Watch in the Night — Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • A Weevil — Khalil Nasif
  • A White Heron — Sarah Orne Jewett
  • A Wild Swan — Michael Cunningham
  • A Woman in a Space — Tehila Hakimi
  • About the Wedding — Eloy Tizón
  • Abracadabra — Diane Goodman
  • Abulafia — Paweł Huelle
  • After Arbor Day — Ruth Almog
  • After the Dance — Leo Tolstoy
  • Aint No Word but Lonely — Rachel A. Levine
  • An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk According to One Who Saw It — Jessie Greengrass
  • An Almost Sky Blue Hand — Rhea Galanaki
  • An Anarchist — Joseph Conrad
  • An Archangel Named Gabriel — Alonso Cueto
  • An Article of Faith — Juan Villoro
  • An Attempt at Murder — Karel Čapek
  • An Attempt at Nuclear Physics — Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  • An Enchanting Evening — Margarita Leoz
  • An Evening with the Author — Olga Tokarczuk
  • An Imperfect Day — Giovanna Rivero
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge — Ambrose Bierce
  • An Old Fashioned Christmas — Richard Marsh
  • An Old Story — Iftach Alony
  • An Unexpected Bender the Cashier — Daniil Kharms
  • And Even Higher — Todd Pitock
  • Another Love Story — Uzi Weil
  • Antropolis — Sharma Shields
  • Apples in Honey — Yehudit Hendel
  • Aquariums Most Wanted — Sophie Hoss
  • Araby — James Joyce
  • Are You Enjoying Your Forgiveness — Julia May Jonas
  • Astronomical Objects — Liz Prato
  • Asylum — David Constantine
  • At Livias Bar — Pierre J. Mejlak
  • At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom — Amy Hempel
  • At the Paris Cinema — Shi Zhecun
  • Auction — María Fernanda Ampuero
  • August — Bruno Schulz
  • Autumn a Fairy Tale — Lea Goldberg
  • Back Then I Was Just a Child — Guillermo Fadanelli
  • Back to the Land — Laia Jufresa
  • Baganda a Chapter from a Novel — Shukri al-Mabkhout
  • Ballet — Federico Falco
  • Barazani — Yeshayahu Koren
  • Batrachophiles and Batrachophobes — Miguel de Unamuno
  • Bear Ears — Carolina Vegas
  • Before the Law — Franz Kafka
  • Being Frosya Shneerson Chapter 6 — Tasha Karluka
  • Beit Hakerem Jerusalem 1985 — Nir Baram
  • Benjamin and the Walker — Krina Ber
  • Biography of a Dress — Jamaica Kincaid
  • Black Cats — Samir Salmi
  • Black Foam — Haji Jaber
  • Bliss — Katherine Mansfield
  • Blowing Up Trains — D.H. Lawrence
  • Bobok from Somebodys Diary — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Bohemia — Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Boredom — Sylvain Tesson
  • Breasts — Yoav Katz
  • Brocas Area — Mohamed Hassan AL-Nahat
  • Bull — Kathy Anderson
  • Bullet in the Brain — Tobias Wolff
  • Buy Two Get One Free — Tal Nitzán
  • By His Things Shall You Know Him — Cory Doctorow
  • By the Water with Friends — Danielle Zilberberg
  • Cannibalism in the Cars — Mark Twain
  • Captain Murderer 2 — Charles Dickens
  • Caviar — Ilka Papp Zakor
  • Chaim and Me a Chapter from Novel — Habib Sayah
  • Chicken Morning Noon and Night — Tasha Karluka
  • Children of God — Peter Stamm
  • Chimi — Alfredo Sanz
  • Chocolate — Manju Kapur
  • Clara — Roberto Bolaño
  • Close to the Body Fifth Place — Sarit Elkon
  • Coffee — Gadi Taub
  • Cohiba — Lucía Puenzo
  • Condensed Milk — Varlam Shalamov
  • Copy and Paste — Yoav Rosen
  • Corporal Billygoat and I — Tadeusz Konwicki
  • Cracks Mainland — Andrej Blatnik
  • Crazy Over William — Rich Elliott
  • Croco Dancy — Nurit Zarchi
  • Cuddlebug — Jenna-Marie Warnecke
  • Dance of the Swans — Alice Bialsky
  • Darab on the River — Thamar E. Gindin
  • Dead Again Billy — Ari Lieberman
  • Dead Dog at Midnight — Kostas Katsoularis
  • Death of the Pugilist or the Famous Battle of Jacob Burke Blindman Mcgraw — Daniel Mason
  • Deception or Dreams of the Man Who Didnt Lose His Shadow — Waciny Laredj
  • Dimanche — Irène Némirovsky
  • Dinner in Audoghast — Bruce Sterling
  • Does Anyone Care About the Dust at Hemingways House — José Miguel Tomasena
  • Dogs Know Those Who Dig Graves — Sharon Roznik
  • Dogs of Summer — Andrea Abreu
  • Doing Your Duty — Ariel Magnus
  • Down the Path — Juan Cárdenas
  • Dr Heideggers Experiment — Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Draculas Guest — Bram Stoker
  • Drummer for the Czar — Arno Schmidt
  • Early This Morning — Pedro Mairal
  • Eclipse — Almudena Sánchez
  • El Verdugo — Honoré de Balzac
  • Embrace — Roxana Robinson
  • Emily of New Moon — Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Emily of New Moon Chapter 5 — Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • End Times — Maxim Loskutoff
  • Endgame — Abdalhadi Alijla
  • Engagement Ring — Jordi Nopca
  • Enlightenment Before a Fall — Robert Menasse
  • Enter Mitchell — Henry Lawson
  • Evel Knievel — Maribeth Mundell
  • Eveline — James Joyce
  • Everyones Favourite Blonde — Fernanda Melchor
  • Eves Diary — Mark Twain
  • Extinction — Adham Adel
  • Face — Douglas Silver
  • Fallen God — Madison Siwak
  • False Alarm — Gonzalo Hernández
  • Famous Blue Raincoat — Aixa de la Cruz
  • Father Christmas Spends the Night — Samanta Schweblin
  • Faulkner — Edmundo Paz Soldán
  • Fifty Shekels — Raji Bathish
  • Filament — K.L. Cook
  • Flies — Eshkol Nevo
  • For the Love of Goat — Clif Travers
  • Fortunatus Rex and Co — Edith Nesbit
  • Fragment of a Novel — Lord Byron
  • Freezing Water — Vera Giaconi
  • From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes — Maurice Baring
  • Fungus — Guadalupe Nettel
  • Fungus 2 — Mia Carrillo
  • Funny Valentine — Paulo Scott
  • Gabe — Holiday Reinhorn
  • Gabriella from Liebchen — Yossi Waxman
  • Georges Wife — Véronique Bizot
  • Gethsemane — Ralf Rothmann
  • Getting Ahead — Jonas Karlsson
  • Globalization — Suheil Kiwan
  • Glory — Lesley Nneka Arimah
  • Glossolalia — David Jauss
  • Goldene Medene — Amy Gustine
  • Gorillas in the Congo — Alejandra Costamagna
  • Gottfried Heinrichs Dream — Jaume Cabré
  • Grandmother and the Ghosts — Andrzej Stasiuk
  • Greetings from Dalmatia — Želimir Periš
  • Guess Who Was at the Party — Kate Hill Cantrill
  • Guest of Honor — Robert Reed
  • Gym Period — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Haircut — Ring Lardner
  • Hamish Mactavish Is Eating a Bus — Gordon Korman
  • Harlamov — S. Yizhar
  • Harvest — Nadav Neuman
  • He Saw Too — Irada Al-Jubori
  • He and She — Anton Chekhov
  • Headless — Karen Brennan
  • Heart of Stone — Nir Yehudai
  • Heidi Is Dead — Sherrie Flick
  • Honey — Liat Elkayam
  • House Taken Over — Julio Cortázar
  • How I Met the Author of My Obituary — Jaroslav Hašek
  • How I Went to School — Tera Fabiánová
  • How Mr Threddie the Tailor Became King — Kornel Makuszyński
  • How to Be a Prisoner — Jessica Hollander
  • How to Talk to Your Mother Notes — Lorrie Moore
  • Hunger — Raija Siekkinen
  • Husband and Wife — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Hylas — Eric Stenbock
  • I Only Blast Under Written Orders — Alexander Kluge
  • I Pray for You — Liliana Colanzi
  • I Stand Here Ironing — Tillie Olsen
  • Icarus — Lones Seiber
  • If Thats How It Is — Dorian Steinhoff
  • If the War Continues — Hermann Hesse
  • Impoverished — David Bergelson
  • In Broad Daylight — C. P. Cavafy
  • Indie — Steven Schwartz
  • Inside Outdoors — Martín Felipe Castagnet
  • Insomnia — Oliverio Coelho
  • Interruption of Service — Tomás Sánchez Bellocchio
  • Interview with an Assassin — Daan Heerma van Voss
  • Invisible — Jeannean Walker
  • Invisible Mending — Ruth Almog
  • Invitation — Claudia Hernández
  • Ishmael — Shimon Adaf
  • It Was Nice Not to Meet You — Ofir Oz
  • It Will All Be Over by Next Rosh Hashanah — Vered Singer
  • It Would Be Better If Some Continents Had Never Been Discovered Europe for Instance Has Never Been Anything but Trouble — Michel Decar
  • Its Me — Kristina Schilke
  • Its Name Is Bird — Kamal Riahi
  • Jacob Wallenstein Notes for a Future Biography — Shay Azoulay
  • Japanese Watches and Egyptian Cats — Ahmed Tharwat
  • John Paul Finnegan Paltry Realist — Rob Doyle
  • Karim the Romantic Bather of the Dead — Ziad Khadash
  • Kasos — Nicolás Mavrakis
  • Ksantini the Last Child of the Century — Sami Berdugo
  • Kunfoosa the Terrible or How to Tell the Difference Between Harmless Pets and Very Harmful Jinn — Tamar Hochstadter
  • La Grande Breteche — Honoré de Balzac
  • Lambing Season — Molly Gloss
  • Last Respects — Danilo Kiš
  • Late Bloomers — Amir Atsmon
  • Lazarus — Leonid Andreyev
  • Leaving the Meadows — Megan Staffel
  • Let Go — Lee Upton
  • Ligaments — Hipólito Gonzales Navarro
  • Light and Space — Ned Beauman
  • Like Hunger Like Love — Giuseppe Caputo
  • Like Penelope — Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
  • Like Penelope 2 — Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
  • Liling — Kelly Cherry
  • Look at the Sky and Tell Me What You See — Aimee LaBrie
  • Lucerne Tunnel — Khalil Nasif
  • Lydia — Zsuzsa Bánk
  • Madame Bovary from Neveh Tsedek — Nurit Zarchi
  • Madame Rose Hanie — Gibran Khalil Gibran
  • Maestoso — Jorge Volpi
  • Magic — Katherine Anne Porter
  • Make Me Do Things — Victoria Redel
  • Man in Gorilla Suit by Moonlight — Tehila Lieberman
  • Masculinity — Antonio Ortuño
  • Meat Eaters Plant Eaters — Jessica Treat
  • Medusa Wore Red or Testing the Waters — Stephanie Lewis
  • Mee Goreng — CG Casci
  • Memories from Haifa — Mati Shemoelof
  • Miracle of the Horses — Marina Tsvetayeva
  • Misery — Anton Chekhov
  • Mitigation — Kato Ramone
  • Molly and the Red Hat — Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • Moscow — Kamal Riahi
  • Motherdeath — Michael Lentz
  • Mr Rabbit and Mr Bear — Joel Chandler Harris
  • Mr Tallents Ghost — Mary Webb
  • My Fathers Ties — Recaredo Veredas
  • My Head and the Globe — Nader Abu Tamer
  • My Husband the Bus Driver — Alaa Hlehel
  • My Istanbul — Emine Sevgi Özdamar
  • My Parents and My Children — Samanta Schweblin
  • My Sister — Hilary Sigismondi
  • Nam — María Fernanda Ampuero
  • Napoleon and the Spectre — Charlotte Brontë
  • Nightdriving — Robert Warf
  • Nightly Lament — Naji Daher
  • Nirvana — Adam Johnson
  • No News or What Killed the Dog — Ray Bradbury
  • Nocturnal Yearnings — Naomi Nightingale
  • None So Blind — Joe Haldeman
  • Nora Daughter of Marcus Beag — Pádraic Ó Conaire
  • Nose Dwarf — Wilhelm Hauff
  • Notes from a Spider — Camilla Grudova
  • Nothing Ruins a Good Story Like an Eyewitness — Matt Cashion
  • Nowhere Else — Matthias Brandt
  • Odour of Chrysanthemums — D.H. Lawrence
  • Old Mr Rabbit Hes a Good Fisherman — Joel Chandler Harris
  • On the Day of the Crucifixion — Leonid Andreyev
  • One Minute Stories — István Örkény
  • One Too Many — Emiliano Monge
  • One of Them — Aziz Jamal Yahyawi
  • Outrage — Álvaro Enrigue
  • Outside the Door — Clemens Meyer
  • Over the Hills and Far Away — Mary Webb
  • Oxytocin — Miguel Serrano Larraz
  • Pan and Pirates — Ashley Cowger
  • Pending Vegan — Jonathan Lethem
  • Perpetuum Mobile — Zohar Elmakias
  • Philomel Cottage — Agatha Christie
  • Planch Whip Salto — Becky Adnot-Haynes
  • Poverty the Galosh — Mikhail Zoshchenko
  • Prenzlauer Berg by Night Nothing Doing — Annett Gröschner
  • Previous Condition — James Baldwin
  • Produce — Sarah Gerkensmeyer
  • Prostheses — Iftach Alony
  • Psychology — Katherine Mansfield
  • Ptosis — Guadalupe Nettel
  • Rabbits of Baghdad — Raghad al-Suheil
  • Raggedy Ann Learns a Lesson — Johnny Gruelle
  • Rashomon — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • Red Curry — Anitha Padanattil
  • Red Enters the Eye — Jane Rogers
  • Red Lights — Talal Abu Shawish
  • Reflections in the Lake — Dror A. Mishani
  • Regina — Gilles Rozier
  • Retirement Home for War Heroes Warsaw — Itamar Orlev
  • Reverse Bug — Lore Segal
  • Richard Nixon My Mother — Tahel Frosh
  • Riding to the Shore — Liz Prato
  • Rock N Roll Flower — Luis Carlos Fuentes Ávila
  • Rollingwood — Ben Marcus
  • Romance with a Double Bass — Anton Chekhov
  • Ronaldos Seat — Mahmoud Shukair
  • Rooms — Anna Likhtikman
  • Rope — Katherine Anne Porter
  • Roy Spivey — Miranda July
  • Rustic Chivalry — Giovanni Carmelo Verga
  • Safe Passage — Ramona Ausubel
  • Safe Zone — Deakla Keydar
  • Scandal — Alaa Hlehel
  • Scenario a Chapter from a Novel — The Short Story Project
  • Seance with the Stasi — Sarah Khan
  • Second Residence — Margarita Leoz
  • Second Skin — Paul McAuley
  • See You at the Pole — Nurit Zarchi
  • Seeing Miles — Steven Schwartz
  • Seeing Them See the Sea — Ilana Hammerman
  • Senora Smaig — Almudena Sánchez
  • Services — Gordon Haber
  • Shades of Grey — Anna Prizkau
  • Shes Not Quite Womans Best Friend — KILEY REID
  • Siamese Carcinoma — Ignacio Padilla
  • Silver Pistols — Liliana Lara
  • Sissy — Kathy Anderson
  • Six Ways to Jump Off a Bridge — Brian Leung
  • Sleepy — Anton Chekhov
  • Sloth — Eva Menasse
  • Sm in the Holy Land — Roy Chen
  • Soap and Water — Sonrisa Holmes
  • Some People Run in Shorts — Sólrún Michelsen
  • Some Terpsichore — Elizabeth McCracken
  • Something Anything — Sally Shivnan
  • Soren Kierkegaard Confounds the City — Tom Baikin-O'hayon
  • Soul Anatomy — Lou Manfredo
  • Spume on the Sands of Acre — Wisam Gibran
  • Still Lutan — María Martoccia
  • Still Water — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
  • Summer 2 — Esty G. Haim
  • Summer in Samarkand — Elif Batuman
  • Summer of Fun — Kirie Pedersen
  • Sun Shields — Yariv Sapir
  • Sunflowers — Michal Yaara Carmi
  • Survivor — Vera Giaconi
  • Tales from the Venia Woods — Robert Silverberg
  • Talitha Kumi — Yitzhak Auerbach-Orpaz
  • Television — Lydia Davis
  • Ten Kliks South — Phil Klay
  • Tertullians Law — Tia Levings
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band — Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Amputated Arms — Vilhelm Bergsøe
  • The Angle — Cristina Fernández Cubas
  • The Architect — Maxim Biller
  • The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher — Hilary Mantel
  • The Battle of Tel El Hawa — Asmaa al-Ghoul
  • The Beretta Always Wins a Chapter from a Novel — Kamal Riahi
  • The Best Laid Plans — Darby Maloney
  • The Big Light — Eliezer Bloom
  • The Birthmark — Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Blue Cross — G.K. Chesterton
  • The Blue Hotel — Stephen Crane
  • The Book Fair the Assassins Grandson — György Spiró
  • The Book of Beasts — Edith Nesbit
  • The Border Line — D.H. Lawrence
  • The Boys — Anton Chekhov
  • The Carriage — Nikolay Nekrasov
  • The Castle in the Woods — Isabella Connor
  • The Cat — Andrea Lundgren
  • The Cheapest Nights — Yusuf Idris
  • The Child — Antonia Baum
  • The City — Leonid Andreyev
  • The Cold — Augustin Cupsa
  • The Cold 2 — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • The Collector — Karla Suárez
  • The Cool Water Well Junction — Aravind Adiga
  • The Corpse — Clemens J. Setz
  • The Curve — Hernán Ronsino
  • The Dancer — Yehudit Hendel
  • The Day by Day Mosque — Mortada Gzar
  • The Dead — James Joyce
  • The Death of a Bachelor — Arthur Schnitzler
  • The Death of a Kangaroo — Juan Pablo Roncone
  • The Decameron Day the Fifth the Ninth Story — Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Decameron Day the Fourth the Ninth Story — Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Decapitated Chicken — Horacio Quiroga
  • The Deer in the Dream — Lieh Tzu
  • The Deliverers of Their Country — Edith Nesbit
  • The Detainees Tale as Told to Ali Smith — Ali Smith
  • The Detective — Yasin Suleiman
  • The Dog — César Aira
  • The Dog Lovers Handbook — László Darvasi
  • The Door in the Wall — H. G. Wells
  • The Doorbell — Cristian Crusat
  • The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Drone Eats with Me Diaries from a City Under Fire — Atef Abu Saif
  • The Elephant — Alexander Kuprin
  • The Emperor Franz Josephs Portrait — Jaroslav Hašek
  • The Enemy of the Love Story — Alma Ganihar
  • The Eternal Israeli — Nissan Shor
  • The Fall of the House of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Father Hole — Andrea Lundgren
  • The Feather Pillow — Horacio Quiroga
  • The Fig Leaf — Benjamin Shane Evans
  • The Fire — Megan Benjamin
  • The First of May — Iftach Alony
  • The Fisherman and His Soul — Oscar Wilde
  • The Flower of Ones Heart — Panio Gianopoulos
  • The Forbidden Doors — Fabio Morábito
  • The Force of Blood — Miguel de Cervantes
  • The Fulness of Life — Edith Wharton
  • The Garden — Luis Negrón
  • The Garden Window — Cristina Fernández Cubas
  • The Gentle Lena — Gertrude Stein
  • The Ghost — Richard Hughes
  • The Gift — Iftach Alony
  • The Gift of the Magi — O. Henry
  • The Girl Who Planted Flowers — Sheila Heti
  • The Girl of His Dreams — Sabrina Huang
  • The Gloria Scott — Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Grand Inquisitor — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Granddad and the Dandelion — Yannets Levi
  • The Great Illusion at Klingenreiter Lumber Sawmill and Woodworking Import Export — Saša Stanišić
  • The Green Devil — Teffi
  • The Green Door — O. Henry
  • The Hidden Cause — Machado de Assis
  • The History of England — Jane Austen
  • The Infant Prodigy — Thomas Mann
  • The Invisible Girl — Mary Shelley
  • The Invisible Man — G.K. Chesterton
  • The Islands — Marina Perezagua
  • The Japanese Garden — Antonio Ortuño
  • The Kid — Rave Sagie
  • The Lady of the House of Love — Angela Carter
  • The Last Charge of the Russian Cossacks — Mathias Énard
  • The Last Communist — Steven Schwartz
  • The Last Leaf — O. Henry
  • The Last Osama — Lavie Tidhar
  • The Last Summer of Our Patriarch — Idra Novey
  • The Last Thing We Need — Claire Vaye Watkins
  • The Last Time — Tamar Gelbetz
  • The Last Words of Benito Picone — Anthony Marra
  • The Laughing Hippopotamus — L. Frank Baum
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving
  • The Lego Idol — Jon Bilbao
  • The Letter — Yossel Birstein
  • The Lightning Man — David Means
  • The Lincoln Train — Maureen F. McHugh
  • The Little Angels Exhumation — Mariana Enríquez
  • The Lonely Magpie — Alan S. Falkingham
  • The Lorry Drivers Tale as Told to Chris Cleave — Chris Cleave
  • The Lovers Tale as Told to Kamila Shamsie — Kamila Shamsie
  • The Magic Shop — H. G. Wells
  • The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls — Marcel Aymé
  • The Man Who Moved the Western Wall — Uzi Weil
  • The Man Who No Longer Wanted to Know Anything — Peter Bichsel
  • The Man in the Yellow Parka — Thierry Horguelin
  • The Mark on the Wall — Virginia Woolf
  • The Mcgugle Account — Sharma Shields
  • The Migrating Wall — Karen Brennan
  • The Model Millionaire — Oscar Wilde
  • The Monkey — Boaz Izraeli
  • The Mother of All Defiance Fourth Place — Mimi Broihier
  • The Mouse — Anais Nin
  • The Need to Be a Son — Andrea Jeftanovic
  • The New Paris — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Nightmare a Chapter from a Novel — Abdalhadi Alijla
  • The Northeast Kingdom — Nathaniel Rich
  • The Onlookers — Kathrin Röggla
  • The Open Door — Abd al Rahman Munif
  • The Open Window — Saki
  • The Open Window 2 — Saki
  • The Opportunity — Iftach Alony
  • The Orange Ribbon — Iyad Barghouti
  • The Origin of Species — Viktor Pelevin
  • The Other Woman — Sherwood Anderson
  • The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids — Herman Melville
  • The Parts Where Your Pee Comes from — Emily Brout
  • The Photographer — Muhammad Hamad
  • The Piano — Romain Rolland
  • The Pink Tuber — Vladimir Sorokin
  • The Pit — Santiago Roncagliolo
  • The Pit and the Pendulum — Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Policeman and the Horse — Zakaria Tamer
  • The Polish Boxer — Eduardo Halfon
  • The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love — Yukio Mishima
  • The Problem with Moving — Jessica Hollander
  • The Prophetic Pictures — Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Queen of Spades — Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin
  • The Ransom of Red Chief — O. Henry
  • The Ray of Moonshine — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
  • The Real Cambodia — Laura Jean McKay
  • The Real Mothers Song — Geoff Schmidt
  • The Real Thing — Henry James
  • The Reality and the Record — Hassan Blasim
  • The Remarkable Rocket — Oscar Wilde
  • The Return — Fernanda Trías
  • The Rocking Horse Winner — D.H. Lawrence
  • The Rose Garden a Fairy Tale — Lea Goldberg
  • The Sad and Ambitious Girls of the Province — Nurit Zarchi
  • The Sandman — E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • The Seamstress — Benjamin Tammuz
  • The Secret Life of Insects — Bernardo Esquinca
  • The Sensible Thing — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Shoe — Hisham Naffa
  • The Signal Man — Charles Dickens
  • The Size of My Love — Fernanda Trías
  • The Smuggler — Iftach Alony
  • The Snow Traveller — Ayfer Tunç
  • The Socialist — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • The Son — Horacio Quiroga
  • The Song We Sang Every Day — Luciano Lamberti
  • The Spectator — Andrés Caicedo
  • The Sphinx Without a Secret — Oscar Wilde
  • The Spider in the Jar — Théodora Armstrong
  • The Square — Elisa R.V. García
  • The Steel Windpipe — Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Story of a Sock — Muhammad al-Asfar
  • The Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin
  • The Strength of God — Sherwood Anderson
  • The Tales of Hoomit — S. Yizhar
  • The Tell Tale Heart — Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Thief — Sharron Hass
  • The Tobacco Man — Diego Vecchio
  • The Translator I Never Wanted to Be — Mariam Rahmani
  • The Treasure — Yusuf Idris
  • The Tree of Knowledge — Henry James
  • The Ufo the Beach and the Dead — Fernanda Melchor
  • The Universe of Things — Gwyneth Jones
  • The Visit — The Short Story Project
  • The Way of Nature — Sara Paborn
  • The White Flower — Teffi
  • The White People — Arthur Machen
  • The Winter Garden — Dorthe Nors
  • The Woman in Green — Cristina Fernández Cubas
  • The Wrong Man — Nella Larsen
  • The a Line — Miryam Sivan
  • There Are No Bodies Such as This — Adam McOmber
  • There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard — M.R. James
  • They Have Given Us the Land — Juan Rulfo
  • Thorns — Sharon Horodi
  • Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven — Ron Rash
  • Three Men in America — Julia Fermentto
  • Through the Fire — Rudyard Kipling
  • Through the Tunnel — Doris Lessing
  • Thumbelina — Hans Christian Andersen
  • Time and Again — Breece D'J Pancake
  • Titanium — Dror Burstein
  • To Jaffa — Ayman Sikseck
  • Torque — David Jauss
  • True Friendship — Jorge F. Hernández
  • Tumbling Towards Absurdity — Linor Katz
  • Twice — Bella Shaier
  • Two Days — Aimee Bender
  • Two Friends — Guy de Maupassant
  • Two Men 2 — Denis Johnson
  • Two Royalists in Quatorze Juillet a Chapter from an Iraqi in Paris — Samuel Shimon
  • Two Women — Tove Ditlevsen
  • Uproar — Uri Nissan Gnessin
  • Upturned Face — Stephen Crane
  • Vampire — Emilia Pardo Bazán
  • Verging on the Abyss — Jonathan Fein
  • Visiting the House of the Rich — Romain Rolland
  • Waiting — Jessica Treat
  • Walking Out — David Quammen
  • Waltz on East 6th Street — Tehila Lieberman
  • Wants — Grace Paley
  • Wars in Distant Lands — Najem Wali
  • Was It a Dream — Guy de Maupassant
  • Water Breaking — Dorit Rabinyan
  • We Were Fishing for Rockets — Karen Köhler
  • Weather — Elizabeth Gonzalez
  • Welcome Bob — Juan Carlos Onetti
  • What Do You Remember — Sally Shivnan
  • What You Looking at — Tamar Merin
  • Whats Wrong Honey — Matías Candeira
  • When the Lights Go Down — Liam Callanan
  • Why Are We Going Back to Watan — Andreas Stichmann
  • Wild Honey — Horacio Quiroga
  • Will Somebody Please Shut the Gate — Mira Magen
  • Words to Live by — Aimee LaBrie
  • Yashas Eternity — Anna Starobinets
  • You Are the Bad Smell — Kathy Anderson
  • Your Honor — Shay Aspril
  • Your Microwave — Philipp Schönthaler
  • Youre Only Bleeding — Matías Capelli
  • Zoya — Alice Bialsky

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