One day, the Buddha was strolling alone along the edge of a lotus pond in Paradise. The blooming lotus flowers in the pond were each pure white like jewels, and the place was fille...

The feathers of a Goose put the newly-fallen snow to the blush. Proud of this dazzling gift of Nature, she considered herself intended for a Swan, rather than for that which she wa...

The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one w...

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...

First， let me tell you a story. Kevin2000， a 17-year-old high school senior is a boy like some of us who like putting off things until tomorrow. He often says： ' I‘ll do it t...

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...

Pinocchio woke up the next morning. There was a plate of food beside his bed. He ate the food, and walked downstairs. The blue-haired fairy was sitting in a chair. She told him she...

  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 ...

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...

  It happened that a country man was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other Birds were hopping about picking up their food. “Be ware of that man,”s...