The Kiss

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  “Ryabovitch pulled the bed-clothes over his head, curled himself up in bed, and tried to gather together the floating images in his mind and to combine them into one whole. But nothing came of it. He soon fell asleep, and his last thought was that someone had caressed him and made him happy—that something extraordinary, foolish, but joyful and delightful, had come into his life. The thought did not leave him even in his sleep. When he woke up the sensations of oil on his neck and the chill of peppermint about his lips had gone, but joy flooded his heart just as the day before.” The Kiss By Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)

10 Favorite Short Stories

 


  1. “To Build A Fire” by Jack London
  2. “Country of the Blind” by HG Wells
  3. “The Egg” by Sherwood Anderson
  4. “Kaleidoscope” by Ray Bradbury
  5. “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
  7. “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” By Leo Tolstoy
  8. “The Fisherman and His Wife” by Brothers Grimm
  9. “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. “All Gold Canyon” by Jack London

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