“Regret” by Kate Chopin— Review

The story “Regret” by Kate Chopin is about an unmarried woman who looks after her neighbor’s children and after this realized that she deeply regrets never having married and had own children.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/regret/

“Despair In Love” by Honore de Balzac— Review

The story “Despair In Love” by Honore de Balzac is about love and women, their coquetry, their tyranny, cruelty, etc. The author expresses sympathy for the helplessness of men before the beauty of women.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://americanliterature.com/author/honore-de-balzac/short-story/despair-in-love/

“Three-Ten to Yuma” By Elmore Leonard— Review

The story “Three-Ten to Yuma” By Elmore Leonard is how the assistant marshal intends to deliver the imprisoned criminal to the Yuma prison.

He manages to put the criminal on the train, though he has to participate in a shootout. After this episode readers are waiting for the continuation: will they get to Yuma.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Leonard_Three-Ten_Yuma.pdf

“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer— Review

The story “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer is about a new universal assistant app.

It has appeared on the Internet - Abelique. It is a real AI assistant for all: it will motivate you to exercise and walk, tell you what to read and watch, what to wear and cook for dinner. And the first month you can use the program absolutely for free.

What will be a drawback in all this…

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/

“So Much Water So Close to Home” by Raymond Carver — Review

The story “So Much Water So Close to Home” by Raymond Carver is about the most ordinary, those you can easily meet on the street. The writer shows us people from their different sides...

One day, four friends decided to go fishing on the river. And as soon as they found a suitable place, they didn’t even have time to set up camp, when one of them saw the body of a dead girl in a small backwater. They started thinking about what to do? And eventually they decided that it was late, they were all tired, and the girl “was in no hurry.”

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://www.nyx.net/~kbanker/chautauqua/carver.htm

The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara — Review

The story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is narrated by an unnamed black girl living in a poor area of ​​New York City.

Miss Moore tells the narrator and a group of other neighborhood children that she intends to give them a lesson about money, and calls a cab for them to take them to a toy store in downtown New York City.

The children are shocked by the enormous prices of toys. This is probably the main idea of ​​the story - to show social inequality in modern society.

Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://yourhomeworksolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/2017/10/The-Lesson-by-Bambara.pdf

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dostoevsky — Review

The short story “The Christmas Tree and the Wedding” by Fyodor Dostoevsky was told by an unknown person. A wedding he saw by chance reminded the hero of an incident at a children's ball.

This is a story about monetary gain, and how greedy a person can be when thirsty for profit. And how strange and difficult were the customs when parents selected grooms for their daughters.

The story will make you smile.

Here is the link to the text of the story:

https://americanliterature.com/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/short-story/the-christmas-tree-and-the-wedding/