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A Bearable Darkness of Being: A Short Story
Do we control our shadows, or do our shadows control us? And what if our shadows did a better job...
Request Denied: A Short Story
One night while home alone and quietly enjoying a drink and a cigar out on his rear balcony, a wealthy,...
Examination Day | A Short Story by Henry Slesar
A friend recommended that I read the short story Examination Day by Henry Slesar—and now I understand why...
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1905, in response to the Spanish–American War and the subsequent Philippine–American War. It...
Einstein on Peace: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
On July 9, 1955, philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Albert Einstein, along with 9 other prominent scientists, issued a statement...
Live Not By Lies by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for publishing Live Not by Lies. He said: "Let the lie come into the world, let...
A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India—its Cause and Cure by Tolstoy
The following letter was penned by Leo Tolstoy in 1908, in reply to a letter from the editor of Free...
The Law of Love & The Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy states that the true Christian doctrine consists only in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life,...
