When we read or listen, words can have a transforming effect. Our mood can alter in the space of a few sentences from joy to sadness. And not just our mood. These words can affect us physically, they can engage our emotions and even in their sadness bring a lump to our throat and tears to our eyes. Sometimes the relief can be palpable.

Our authors, from Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield and a wealth of others, are well aware of what their talents will evoke. Genius has many names.

1 - Short Stories To Make You Cry - An Introduction

2 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

3 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

4 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant

5 - The Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield

6 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

7 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

8 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson

9 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev

10 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson

11 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub