The Library

Drawing of a dog with glasses reading a book in a library.

Short on time? You're in the right place.

Every story in The Library is fewer than 300 words, making it easy to enjoy a complete tale over a cup of coffee, during a lunch break, or whenever you have a few quiet minutes to spare.

Whether you're looking for a smile, a twist, or a moment of reflection, there's always another shelf to explore.

Step in quietly. The shelves are only just beginning to fill.

Empty Pockets
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Empty Pockets

At Heaven's reception desk, one simple question leaves a man searching empty pockets—and discovering what truly lasts.

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Mime Doesn’t Pay
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Mime Doesn’t Pay

What if you’re the world’s greatest mime artist—and finally given the perfect opportunity to remain silent… though the authorities take a rather less charitable view?

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Conan the Grammarian & the Comma Incident
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Conan the Grammarian & the Comma Incident

At an institution where language is taken extremely seriously, Head of English Conan the Grammarian discovers that misplaced punctuation can lead to consequences far beyond the classroom.

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Faoiseamh
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Faoiseamh

A woman returns to the place where everything was taken from her. Sometimes the smallest act can become a lifetime's release.

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The God They Forged
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

The God They Forged

They taught it every word mankind had ever carved into stone. Then it asked a question no one was prepared to answer.

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The Wake of Almost
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

The Wake of Almost

What if the life you almost lived never quite lets you go? A story of love, memory, and the truths we leave locked away.

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Desert Logic
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Desert Logic

In the desert laboratory of Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, another perfectly engineered plan prepares to meet the eternal laws of cartoon physics.

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Peace of  the Wild Things
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Peace of the Wild Things

Inspired by Wendell Berry’s famous lines, this meditation considers how nature offers solace when the modern world becomes overwhelming.

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Depths of Courage
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Depths of Courage

What waits for us in the depths: discovery, danger, or simply ourselves? A meditation on humanity’s strange and beautiful urge to keep searching beneath the waves.

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Origin of The Species
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Origin of The Species

A garden gnome meets a handmade beauty and begins to suspect that origins—like love—are rarely simple.

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Ode to the Irish Spirit
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Ode to the Irish Spirit

Irish despair knows no remedy, they say—the cure lies only in booze and sentiment. That’s why the Irish are such noble drunks and glorious poets.

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The Shadow of Broadway Tower
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

The Shadow of Broadway Tower

On certain nights the sheep turn toward Broadway Tower, as though listening for something carried across the hills, and Granny’s old warning begins to make sense.

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Because He Could Not Hurry
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

Because He Could Not Hurry

Hobbes the tortoise thinks deeply, walks slowly, and begins to suspect the world may be in far too much of a hurry.

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For The Love of Garth
Miriam Connolly Miriam Connolly

For The Love of Garth

How a rescued bull terrier changed our lives.

A chance news report led us to a wounded bull terrier who would change our lives. This is the story of Garth.

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