Kandata was floating and sinking along with the other sinners in the Lake of Blood at the bottom of Hell. It was pitch black no matter which way he looked, and the occasional glimp...

This past April while visiting my parents on the farm I‘d grown up on, I wandered outside to drink in the feel of 'home', a comfort I really needed right then. I was used to sunny...

       A blind man, being stopped in a bad piece of road, met a Lame Man, and entreated him to help him out of the difficulty into which he had fallen. &nb...

Once upon a time an old man and woman lived in the mountains. Everyday the old man went to the mountain and collected firewood, while the old woman went to the river and did the la...

One day a rich father took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and night in the farm of a very poor fa...

As a teenager，I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious1 out－side，but I wanted to be liked inside. Once I left home to hitch-hike2 to California with my friend...

  Pinocchio hugged Geppetto. The old man was happy to see Pinocchio. 'I have been inside the whale for two years,' he said. 'I didn‘t think I would see you again.' Pinocchio ...

 She was not beautiful. Nothing about her was extraordinary. Nothing about her made her stand out in a crowd. She grew up in a family of six and being the eldest, she learned ...

  Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided togo for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house。 In a hurry to dive into the cool wat...

A couple had been married for 25 years and were celebrating their 60th birthdays, which fell on the same day. During the celebration a fairy appeared and said that because they h...