Adult Learning Activities | California Distance Learning Project. Story List Select the name of the story you want to read, or pick another topic. NOTE: Some of these stories came from news stories, which may be old. Things may have changed since the story was written. Be sure to check before you do something based on these stories. Advertisement Site Support Copyright ©2005-2011. Short Stories: 10 Tips for Creative Writers. Short stories at east of the web. A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’
- Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. . - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. . - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead.
. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. . - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages. ESL/EFL Reading - 365 ESL/EFL Short Stories. Graded reader for beginners in English language learning.