I need a short story.

There are
so many terrific authors of short stories to choose from. Jack London wrote several engaging
 short stories about early pioneer life in Alaska and animals, also href="http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/price/frog.htm" title="Mark
Twain">Mark Twain's  The Celebrated Jumping
Frog of Calveras County is the humorist at his best,  Washington Irving or Edgar
Allan Poe have all penned wonderful short works if you need an American author for your project.
If you wish to read a story by an author not born in the U.S....

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