Read short stories on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Get your stories featured on EotW and in our newsletter.
- Study questions & activities
- Word games
- Word games
In an ego-driven attempt to heal local political divisions, the Baroness and Clovis decide to stage a Greek tragedy.
Lady Barbara is charged with finding a suitably new and tasteful method for greeting the head of state of a small Euopean princedom.
A man becomes obsessed with the idea that owners might grow to resemble their pets. Then someone buys him a monkey.
Lady Bastable is - quite rightly - reluctant to look after young Clovis for a week.
When Clovis must back-up his claim that he can produce quality poetry by the square yard, Bertie van Tahn assumes the role of critic.
A couple apparently run into some ancient forces when they make the move to the country.
An aspiring groom is given the task of designing an advertising campaign for the most disgusting cereal ever created.
A man contemplating ending it all off the edge of a cliff is apparently - by an enormous stroke of luck - given a second chance.
The terminally dull Septimus of Leighton Buzzard (editor of Cathedral monthly) appears to be having a clandestine affair with the maid of the aunt of Clovis.
The tragic story of three sisters who come tantalisingly close to an unexpected inheritance.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Humor
An unusually religious Duke gets tired of petty party politics and replaces the members of the Houses of Parliament with Angels.
Jocantha decides to share her happiness with the less fortunate through a spot of afternoon philanthropy.
An absent-minded old lady forgets where she left her niece.
Lady Drakmanton comes up with an unorthodox way of dealing with the miserly Misses Smithly-Dubb.
Speculation about the outcome of the closest Derby race in years intensifies when Lola Pevensey claims to have dreamt the winner.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
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.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
"It's at the ranch, on the other side of the farm, in those mountains. All we need to do is catch it. Can you imagine how much we can sell it for?
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
