#200 The Bishop

Today’s 200th story is 6468 words. You can find it here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/200.html Travis review: This is a very slow, meditative story about the final days of a bishop’s life. It feels like Chekhov is writing about his own mortality in this tale. The doctor and man of letters was slowly succumbing to tuberculosis and perhaps he was wondering …

#114 A Mystery

Find today’s 1593 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/114.html I like this story a lot, even if it isn’t a great one as it pushes lines of absurdity and questions faith. If anything can be said of actual Civil Councilor Navagin, it is that when he takes on a project, he commits to it wholeheartedly. The mystery of …