"Whilomville Stories" by Stephen Crane is a collection of 13 short stories that center around a young boy growing up in a small town and all the whimsy, charm, and real-life magic that goes along with that. These adventures are told in the stories: The Angel Child, Lynx-Hunting, The Lover and the Telltale, Showin' Off, Making an Orator, Shame, The Carriage-Lamps, The Knife, The Stove, The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps, The Fight, The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers, and A Little Pilgrimage.