Animal Farm – George Orwell

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Quick Read: under 5 minutes
Short Story: 5 to 30 minutes
Novelette: 30 to 90 minutes
Novella: 1.5 to 2.5 hours

Pillar of Salt
Short Story by Shirley Jackson. A woman visiting New York with her husband panics after falsely thinking a building they were in was on fire. She loses confidence among the crowds, and imagines decay everywhere. When the couple discover a body part on a beach, she spins out of control.
The Indian and the Hundred Cows
Hispanic Folktale. In soliciting donations, a priest alludes to the biblical concept expressed in Mark 10:30, whereby he who gives up everything for God will be rewarded a hundredfold. A misled, or more likely wily, parishioner donates a cow and takes a hundred of the priest’s cattle in return.
Taking Care
Short Story by Joy Williams. An understandably distracted parish priest goes through the motions of fulfilling his duties as his wife wastes away in hospital from an unknown blood disorder and he cares for his six-month-old granddaughter and a dog abandoned by his irresponsible daughter.

Ckeckouts
Grade 7-8 Story by Cynthia Rylant. A teenage girl finds herself strongly attracted to a bag boy operating one of the checkouts at her local supermarket. The boy is also strongly attracted to her. Fast forward to the end of the story, and both are with another partner.
The Sea of Lost Time
Short Story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A seaside town is a smelly, unpleasant place thanks to garbage and rotting fish washed in with every tide. Things change when a local man notices something different about the sea breeze and a strange foreigner arrives with bags of money to give away.
Reunion
Quick Read by John Cheever. A boy reaches out to meet his estranged father, only to learn that the man is a rude, obnoxious, possibly alcoholic attention-seeker who delights in putting other people down. It is easy to see why the boy’s mother divorced the man.
The Stars
Short Story by S. Rajaratnam. An Indian farmer who is obsessed with the stars doubles as his village astrologer. To silence sceptics he charts his own destiny, determines the date and time of his death, and invites the whole village to witness and celebrate the event.

The Indian Uprising
Short Story by Donald Barthelme. An American city is being besieged by “Comanches”. There have been thousands of deaths on both sides, and the hospitals are out of essential supplies. The city leader is distracted and incompetent, its citizens are unhappy, and rebellion is in the air.
The Thakur’s Well / Thakur Ka Kuan
Short Story by Premchand. An low-caste Indian woman needs water for her sick husband. The only well in the village available to her is contaminated, and she decides that her only option is to risk a severe beating by secretly drawing water from the well of the high-caste Thakur.
Things
Novelette by Sinclair Lewis. A young woman’s life is turned upside down when her father becomes instantly rich, buys a mansion, and fills it with expensive “things”. The family enters a new social circle, and over time their mansion and possessions become a metaphorical prison.