We believe students and readers everywhere deserve a great and free modern library, inside of which they can get deliriously, entertainingly, profoundly lost. And found.

Stories

Classics
The Lady with the Little Dog
by Anton Chekhov
Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”
Graphic Stories
The Lady’s Murder
by Eliza Frye
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Fiction
The Lamp of Truth
by Octavia Randolph
“We have heard that this blackened smear is art. We do not see it.”
Poetry
The Land of Five Rivers
by Faisal Mohyuddin
My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.
Story of the Week
The Landfill
by Anthony Marra
The interrogator was both man and deity, prophet and god.
Story of the Week
The Langham Club
by Spencer Wise
We backed up and I kept ripping it at his face, trying to knock his teeth out.
Classics, Story of the Week
The Lantern-Bearers
by Robert Louis Stevenson
These are notes that please the great heart of man.
Story of the Week
The Lapedo Child
by Suzanne Feldman
The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”
Story of the Week
The Last Artist in New York
by Polly Frost
Living as the last artist in Manhattan: it’s the ultimate test of commitment.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 1
by Skip Horack
Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 2
by Skip Horack
Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 3
by Skip Horack
Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?
Story of the Week
The Last Days of Monkey Zak: Part 4
by Skip Horack
L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.
Story of the Week
The Last Language
by Jennifer duBois
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
Poetry
The Leaf in My Pocket and Other Poems
by Maria Hummel
Thus is the way of leaves the secret ones that no one sees, not even me
Nonfiction
The Leash
by Tom Grimes
He was frightened, a creature no more or less unbound by time than I am.
Story of the Week
The Legacy of the Mayflower Landing
by Jason Brown
Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.
Poetry
The Legend of Zelda
by Brian Tierney
We wanna play Nintendo till it’s dark out and can’t, the grid’s down.
First & Second Looks
The Leopard Hat
by Valerie Steiker
Classics
The Lesson of the Master
by Cynthia Ozick
The true Lesson of the Master is, simply, to husband one’s own stupidity.
Classics
The Lesson of the Master
by Henry James
Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.
Fiction
The Letters
by Nicholas Delbanco
The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?
Poetry
The Lime Tree
by Jessica Dionne
They fed her honey, cream, bits of lime, that meaty pulp ripped from rind.
Story of the Week
The Little One Need Not Come
by Anne de Marcken
The house of our relationship is a fort. Blanket fort. Tree fort.
Story of the Week
The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate
by Samuel Lover
It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.
Story of the Week
The Lives of Philosophers
by Kevin Brockmeier
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
Poem of the Week
The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight
by Natalie Shapero
We entertain them. We kiss and spit and strike. We’re always changing.
Poetry
The Loneliness of Fireworks
by Zhai Yongming
If I also could be lifted into the sky, I’d wish to be blown apart.
Fiction
The Lonely
by Holly Wilson
I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.
Fiction
The Long Consequence
by Richard Bausch
There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.