Haven't they told you about the Heaven for sick children? John shook his head,but continued listening intently. -"Well, it's the best place you could ever imagine, much better than heaven for parents or anyone else. They say it's like that to compensate children for having being sick.B...
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Here is another short story by O. Henry.Soapy was a homeless man looking for somewhere to stay during the winter. He was thinking about doing something bad so the police would send him (A)___ prison. First, he planned to eat in a restaurant (B)___ paying, but the waiter looked at...
Story Since he was very young, Matt had spent all his spare time and efforts trying to find the Pet Sack, the most famous thing the great magician, Stardust, had ever created.No one knew what was inside the sack to make it so special, but rumours were that that pet bag was so spec...
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My last resort was talking about the good times we had together. I urged my dad to think of happy memories I had with him. “Remember when we visited the rodeo in Texas? Remember when we watched your favorite movie, and it turned to be my favorite too? Remember when I helped you sel...
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the ...
Short Stories About Loneliness “The Gay Old Dog” by Edna Ferber Jo Hertz is a plump, lonely bachelor of fifty who lives well. The narrator tells us Jo’s story from the age of twenty-seven when his mother died and she got him to promise to put his life on hold until his three ...
“They walked down the hall of their HappyLife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed. This house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them.” Why we love it: Read and analyze this story about a child who gets revenge...
This inspirational short story is easy to relate to! Inspirational quotes fromJohn Edgar Wideman “Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.”―John Edgar Wideman,Fanon “Good writing is always about things that are important to you...