Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an...

  In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king，“I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.‘ W...

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

Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in most any neighborhood, these two loved each other and played together s...

There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but it had high thoughts of its own value, and wonderful dreams of the great place wh...

NOVELS about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd for a literary mind to care how often a ball makes it to the back of the net or how long it takes to spri...

Life at age twenty seven is nothing what I envisioned when I was a child. I imagined by age twenty seven I would be in a serious relationship border line marriage, owning my own pl...

The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.   'Why are you in college at such a young age?' I asked later. She jokingly replied, 'I‘m here to me...

  One morning, Pinocchio was walking to the farm. He looked down and saw a snail. The snail was the blue-haired fairy‘s pet. It looked very sad. It said that the fairy was ve...

In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. The weather is fair, the land is fertile and the ocean is rich with fish. Each island is inhabited by a different race of...