#132 The Pipe

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. …

#121 Happiness

Find today’s 4000 word story here: http://www.chekhovshorts.com/stories/121.html Travis review Hmm. I wasn’t blown away by today’s story. An 80 year old shepherd and his grandson, Sanka, sit below the slumbering stars of the Milky Way as a herd of sheep sleep. Panteley, the overseer, comes up and listens to the old man’s tale of Yefim Zhmenya. …