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In response to Nike’s request:

February is the shortest month. Let’s do short stories, classics obviously, but any genre you want to read. For this challenge, I suggest we read stories that have 250 pages or less. Enjoy!

Tr1sha wrote: "In response to Nike’s request:

February is the shortest month. Let’s do short stories, classics obviously, but any genre you want to read. For this challenge, I suggest we read stories that have 2..."

Thanks for setting this up, Trisha!

February: Short Stories

1. The Sergeant in the Snow by Mario Rigoni Stern
2. Kerfol by Edith Wharton
3. The Bolted Door by Edith Wharton
4. Mrs. Manstey's View by Edith Wharton
5. The Dilettante by Edith Wharton
6.The House of the Dead Hand by Edith Wharton

Rosemarie wrote: "February: Short Stories"
I’m pleased you’re doing this, Rosemarie.

February: Short Stories

Edith Wharton:
🌷The Dilettante - only a short story but I struggled to finish it. I didn’t like it at all.
🌷The Reckoning - this became more interesting & I liked the way the story developed to its conclusion.
🌷Expiation - a clever idea but I didn’t enjoy reading this.
🌷Xingu - the best of the Edith Wharton short stories in this list.

H G Wells:
🌷The Door in the Wall - excellent story with beautiful descriptions.

Wilkie Collins:
🌷The Frozen Deep - excellent

February: Short Stories

✅Murder Most Foul, Volume 1
Audio includes short stories:
"Bluebeard's Bathtub" by Margery Allingham
"Who Killed Zebedee?" by Wilkie Collins
"An Alpine Divorce" by Robert Barr
" The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Finished 1/6/26 - especially liked Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham

✅Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire - various authors including Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, and others, all classics (2023)

What a great selection, Kathy. I don’t think I’ve read any of those stories so my list may get longer…

Thank you!

February

Short story/stories: Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Tr1sha wrote: "What a great selection, Kathy. I don’t think I’ve read any of those stories so my list may get longer…"

I hadn't heard of any except the story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Short Story Classics/any genre/250 pages or under.....

1. A Baby TrampbyAmbrose Bierce(1893)
⭐✔5/2/26★ ★ ★ ★
2.Her BirthdaybyAlgernon Blackwood(1914)
⭐✔6/2/26★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3.The Round DozenbyW. Somerset Maugham(1939)
⭐✔10/2/26★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.Father SergiusbyLeo Tolstoy(1911)
⭐✔11/2/26★ ★ ★ ★
5.Princess SeptemberbyW. Somerset Maugham(1939)
⭐✔11/2/26★ ★ ★ ★
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Short Stories 250 pages or less


1. St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton (1923) February 6, 2026 5* 175 pages
2 Several Hemingway Stories Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway (1924) February 10, 2026 3*
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife by Ernest Hemingway (1924) February 10, 2026 3*
Ten Indians by Ernest Hemingway (1927) February 10, 2026 4*

Month of short stories…
Life is very short and there’s no time…
Italo Calvino – Cosmicomics 1965