"Leave him alone" I yelled as I walked out of the orphanage gate and saw several of the Spring Park School bullies pushing the deaf kid arou...
The rumor proved all too bitterly true: Park's Hardware, a downtown institution of Orono, Maine, since 1898, would be closing.Word spread quickly....
During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz.I was a careful student and had breezedthrough the questions until I read t...
Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl.One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl n...
"Sheesh! Give me a few points for self control!" I snapped at my cranky（暴躁的） husband. I wanted to stop at a sporting goods store "Going...
As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it ...
Afternoon was Mrs. Conroy's favorite time of day. After a hard day at work, her eyes were tired and her feet hurt. She enjoyed the nice long nap s...
They were to eat peaches, as planned, after her nap, and now she sat across from the man who would have been a total stranger except that he was in fa...
There once lived a lad（少年，小伙子） who was deeply in love with a girl, but disliked by the girl's father, who didn't want to see any further devel...
Enough was enough. After four years of devoting herself to Ward, Leah had given up. "I'm moving to New York," she said. He couldn't ...