Second Batch of 14 Stories Added

Fourteen stories were added as a group on June 30, 2025.

Included here are:

• the (year of publication)
• the word count, and
• the approximate reading times (silent/aloud)

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• "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane (1898) 4,350 words, 22/33 minutes
• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain (1865) 2,570 words, 13/20 minutes
• "Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach" by Yei Theodora Ozaki (1908) 4,400 words, 22/34 minutes
• "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (1884) 2,850 words, 14/22 minutes
• "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (1890) 3,760 words, 20/29 minutes
• "Oshidori (The Mandarin Ducks)" by Lafcadio Hearne (1904) 590 words, 3/5 minutes
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte (1869) 4,030 words, 20/31 minutes
• "The Penance of Magdalena" by J. Smeaton Chase (1915) 5,380 words, 27/41 minutes
• "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling (1894) 5,920 words, 30/46 minutes
• "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving (1819) 6,890 words, 34/53 minutes
• "The Soul of a Regiment" by Talbot Mundy (1912) 5,000 words, 25/38 minutes
• "The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) 9,820 words, 49/76 minutes
• "Susannah and the Elders" from The Bible (2nd c BCE, trans. 1611) 1,450 words, 7/11 minutes
• "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835) 5,240 words, 26/40 minutes