🌞 Mondayitis

A little warmth to carry into your week

Get 10 Timeless Stories to Start Your Week, free: a collection of heartwarming public-domain tales from O. Henry, Tolstoy, Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Aesop and other storytellers whose words have warmed hearts for a hundred years and more.

Read a very short one now

Choose how your week is starting, and read a small, old story that fits.

These very short tales are in the public domain, retold in a few lines. The full collection has ten complete stories, with where each one first came from.

What is inside the collection

  • 10 complete public-domain storiesTales of love, courage, kindness and hope, from Aesop to O. Henry.
  • A short introduction to each authorWho they were, and when the story first appeared.
  • A calm, unhurried layoutMade for reading slowly, with your first coffee of the week.
  • A new story every Monday after thatThe collection is just the beginning of the ritual.

Start next Monday with a story waiting for you

Explore Mondayitis: Story Guide