https://xpressenglish.com featuring the world's best short stories Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:28:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://xpressenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-bookworm-32x32.jpg https://xpressenglish.com 32 32 https://xpressenglish.com/long-live-the-king/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-live-the-king Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:38:16 +0000 https://xpressenglish.com/?p=39620 Short Story by Mary Coleridge. After a king dies of fever, his spirit dreams that his life will be restored if it can locate three people who wish that he was still alive within an hour of his death. The spirit’s findings are not what it had expected.

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