These things happened to me nearly ten years ago. I lived in a city, but the city was hot in summer. I wanted to see the country. I wanted to walk in the woods and see green trees. I had a little red car and I had a map, too. I drove all night out […]
I have a friend who is afraid of spiders. This isn’t very unusual; a lot of people are afraid of spiders. I don’t really like spiders much myself. I don’t mind them if you see them outside, in the garden, as long as they’re not too big. But if one comes in the house, especially […]
Jenny and Robert Slater were on holiday in America. They were young and it was their first time away from home in England. They had a car and visited many famous and interesting places. ‘I want to see New York,’ Jenny said one morning. ‘Let’s go there.’ ‘Mmm, I don’t know, love. Everybody says New […]
‘He’s a brave man,’ people say about me. ‘He’s never afraid.’ They are wrong. I wasn’t always a brave man, and at times I was afraid — very afraid. I am an important man now. I have an important job. People know me and like me. They don’t know that I wasn’t always brave. I […]
Mr Harris liked trains. He was afraid of aeroplanes, and didn’t like buses. But trains — they were big and noisy and exciting. When he was a boy of ten, he liked trains. Now he was a man of fifty, and he still liked trains. So he was a happy man on the night of […]
People often said that Thierry Boyle was the most boring man in the world. Thierry didn’t know why people thought he was so boring. Thierry thought he was quite interesting. After all, he collected stamps. What could be more interesting than stamps? It was true that he didn’t have any other hobbies or interests, but […]
Tess was eight years old. One day she heard that her Mom and Dad were talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very ill and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment complex the following month because Daddy didn’t have the money for the […]
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