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...

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 water,h...

Pencil: You know, I‘m really sorry. Eraser: For what? You didn‘t do anything wrong. Pencil: I‘m sorry, cause you get hurt because of me. Whenever I make a mistake, you are alw...

Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. ...

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...

  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...

  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 dancing. My crippled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen table and sure enough-right under a sma...

I went to Grandmother‘s house many more times after that, and she always kept her same routine. It was a welcome routine, one that I enjoyed every week. Grandmother didn‘t talk t...

John was waiting for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn‘t, the girl with the rose. Thirteen months ago, in a Florida library he took a book off the shelf and fou...