Write Flash Fiction a Creative Writing Guide

by Story Telling

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

EVERYONE HAD ALWAYS said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe

TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.

Prince Caspian

by C. S. Lewis

ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book call...

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of...