short-story
1436 篇The Cheater | 作弊者
A teacher suspects a student of cheating because their test answers, including an error, match th...
30 阅读Waste or Save | 浪费还是节约
A humorous dialogue where a father scolds his son for wasting time by sleeping, and the son cleve...
31 阅读Thirteen and Fourteen | 十三与十四
A curious man peeks into an asylum where residents are chanting "Thirteen!", only to get poked in...
28 阅读Big Head | 大脑袋
A boy is upset because other children tease him about his large head. His mother comforts him but...
25 阅读Can We Have Our Teacher Back? | 我们的老师何时能回来？
A school superintendent mistakenly disciplines a tall, noisy student, only to discover from a you...
28 阅读I'd Rather Buy a Gift | 我宁愿买一件礼物
A humorous anecdote where a father jokingly requests love, honor, and obedience as his birthday g...
28 阅读Too Crowded | 车太挤
A humorous short dialogue where a bus driver, mistaken for a passenger, is told the bus is too fu...
30 阅读Did Your Father Help You? | 你爸爸帮你了吗？
Tim's teacher is surprised to see his perfect math homework and asks if his father helped. Tim re...
32 阅读Change Your Business | 换个工作
A doctor prescribes more walking to a patient suffering from lack of exercise, only to discover t...
32 阅读The Two Hunters | 两个猎人
A hunter calls emergency services after his companion collapses. Following the operator's instruc...
28 阅读The Reason | 他的理由
A young writer, after having his novel rejected, cleverly points out that the editor could keep t...
27 阅读Back Up Two Miles | 退后两英里
A farmer uses clever wording to make a hurried motorist reverse for two miles on a narrow road, r...
28 阅读Good News and Bad News | 好消息与坏消息
A general offers his tired soldiers a complete change of clothing as good news, but the bad news ...
30 阅读I Want to Know You | 我想认识你
A humorous dialogue where a boy asks for a girl's phone number, only to be told it's in the phone...
41 阅读A Dear Memento | 珍贵的纪念品
A woman wears a locket containing her husband's hair, explaining its sentimental value lies in pr...
43 阅读Half Price Fortune | 半价财富
A humorous dialogue where Jack claims his daughter's music lessons are a fortune because they all...
34 阅读Congratulations | 恭喜
A man calls an undertaker to arrange his wife's funeral, only for the undertaker to reveal he bur...
24 阅读Street Shade | 大街上的阴凉处
On a scorching, treeless street, a portly man walking to the bus is persistently followed and his...
29 阅读The Mean Man's Party | 吝啬鬼的待客之道
A notorious cheapskate instructs a friend to use his elbow and foot to ring the doorbell and open...
39 阅读Is He Dying? | 他就要死了吗？
A man is devastated after being told he must take medication for life, until his friend's reassur...
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