This classic short story explored the horrors of “downsizing” long before the term became a fashionable catchword for the elimination of jobs and subsequent mass firings of loyal employees who often don’t see it coming.
1 CommentIn “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” Little Mrs. Sommers faces a minor dilemma that eventually becomes a conscious expression of her desire to return to a past that she can no longer have
Leave a CommentFirst published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. The Black Cat is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
Leave a Comment“The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”, written by author Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes stories collected between 1921–1927 as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
Leave a CommentA short story, written by O. Henry, about a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
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