Find today’s 2436 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/134.html Travis review A free ride may not always be the best one to take. This is a story about a young man taking a ride to the train station via nepotism. That is, he is getting a free ride on the postal cart because his uncle is the postmaster. …
Find today’s 1841 story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/133.html Travis review: Today’s story is a black comedy. The premise is simple, a cuckolded husband plans to purchase a gun to kill his wife, her lover, and himself. Chekhov pens some of his most graphic lines as Fyodor enters the gun shop “…but already in imagination he saw three bloodstained …
Please find today’s 3343 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/132.html Written in 1887, this story is concerned with the human devastation on the environment. Just before reading this story I read a news report about holes that have been appearing in Siberia and seem to be happening as an effect of global warming. Like yesterday, I found the title choice interesting. …
Find today’s 2043 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/131.html Travis review: With a title like “The Doctor,” I would have expected the titled character to be in the midst of surgery or giving a diagnosis to a patient. At the point we enter the story he has already given a terminal diagnosis of a friend’s (and his obsession’s) …
Find today’s 2453 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/130.html Travis review: A woman’s wrath is eternal. At least that is the moral of today’s story as told by a sportsman reflecting on his actions when he was a bratty, petulant kid. It is funny that the tales starts with sportmen spending the night in peasant’s hut, exhausting topics …
Find today’s 2349 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/129.html. Travis review: Chekhov has a great methods of telling stories. In this case, a wealthy man is dying via a self inflicted gunshot to the head. We could have seen the story from the grieving wife or the hopeless doctors trying to save him or even the man …
Find today’s 1643 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/128.html This is a tale of a matchmaker and a client who have found each other and will live happily ever after… or will they? Had Chekhov end the story with Lyubov Grigoryevna, tears in her eyes, assenting to Stytchkin proposal, the story would indeed be a happy ending. …
Find today’s 3086 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/127.html Travis Review This is a character examination of a sad alcoholic father. Chekhov does not judge, but lets the man bare his dignity and trample over it throughout the course of a few hours. Old Musatov’s self-depreciating monologues to his mostly silent, patient, and accommodating son, Boris, propel the story. …