A Letter from Hell | 地狱来信
A man's vacation email, sent to a wrong address due to a typo, is mistakenly received by a recent...
The Mental Chain | 心灵的枷锁
The article uses the metaphor of a conditioned circus elephant to illustrate how past failures an...
The Love of Two Leaves | 两片树叶的爱情
Two leaves, Ole and Trufa, cling to a branch through autumn storms, sustained by their love. When...
Finding a Friend | 寻找朋友
A lonely little fish named Sam searches the sea for a friend who looks like him. After encounters...
The Tree and the Goose | 山木与雁
Zhuangzi uses the paradox of a useless tree surviving and a useless goose being killed to illustr...
The Last Stop | 终点站
Mrs. Conroy, accustomed to napping on her friendly bus driver's route, falls asleep with a substi...
I Love You More | 我爱你更多
A mother and her young daughter engage in their playful "I love you more" contest, using increasi...
The Aged Mother | 年迈的母亲
A desolate old woman, having lost all her family, blames God for her sorrow. During a night vigil...
Where Does Rice Come From? | 大米从何而来？
A rich man's foolish sons, when asked where rice comes from, give absurd answers (kitchen, bag), ...
By the Almshouse Window | 济贫院窗前
An old maid gazes from an almshouse window at children playing on Copenhagen's historic rampart. ...
Winning Over Jiang Wei | 计收姜维
Zhuge Liang ingeniously exploits Jiang Wei's filial piety and orchestrates a series of deceptions...
The Origin of Teddy Bear | 泰迪熊的由来
The teddy bear is named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, inspired by a 1902 hunting in...
Not a Good Staff | 不是个好员工
The narrator befriends two boys, Edward and Sam, and poses them two riddles. The boys' unexpected...
Detour to Romance | 曲折的浪漫路
A young man waits endlessly at a train station for his fiancée who never arrives. Unbeknownst to ...
Dickens and His Cat | 狄更斯与他的猫
A story about Charles Dickens and his Persian cat, who cleverly interrupted his reading by puttin...
The Ploughman and the Wolf | 农夫与狼
A hungry wolf gets entangled in a plough while trying to eat its leather straps and is caught by ...
The Four Friends | 四个好朋友
Four Brahmin friends flee famine. Three scholars use their knowledge to reconstruct a lion from b...
The Crab and the Lobster | 螃蟹与龙虾
A crab joins a lobster on a stormy sea voyage despite his fears. When their boat sinks, the lobst...
The Pomegranate, the Apple-tree and the Bramble | 石榴树、苹果树与荆棘
A pomegranate and an apple-tree argue fiercely over whose fruit is superior, nearly coming to blo...
The Three Apprentices | 三个学徒
Three destitute apprentices make a pact with the Devil, agreeing to speak only in coded phrases i...
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