日期:2020-03-25 Allison和Clark是一对夫妻,Clark 78岁,Allison35岁,他们一整个晚上都在做南瓜灯笼 Allison and her husband, Clark, who is much older than she, spend an evening carving pumpkins until early the next morning. Allison struggled away from her white Renault,... 阅读全文>> 日期:2020-03-25 一位年轻人去拜访一位卖各种神奇药物的老人,想要得到价格不那么昂贵的爱情神药。 Alan Austen, as nervous as a kitten, went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street, and peered about for a long time on the dime landing before... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-08-23 Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an e-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponso... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-06-22 My mom only had one eye.I hated her. She was such an embarrassment. She ran a small shop at a flea market and collected old clothes and some other things to sell for the money we needed. Once during elementary school, it was field day, and my mom ca... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-06-10 They dragged me by my legs, screaming and yelling for more than several hundred yards through the dirt and pine-straw to the waiting police car. All I could hear the entire time was the high pitched sound of that whale being harpooned again. As we pu... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-06-10 The boy jerked about and then made a sound that I will never forget for as long as I live. It was the sound like a whale makes when it has been harpooned and knows that it is about to die. I fired all four of my arrows at the two bullies as they ran... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-06-10 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 around. I did not know the boy at all but I knew that we were about the same age, because of his size. He lived in... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-09-23 The rumor proved all too bitterly true: Park's Hardware, a downtown institution of Orono, Maine, since 1898, would be closing. Word spread quickly. Locals cajoled, cross-examined, and pleaded with Lin, the owner of the store, to no avail. Running a... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-11-12 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 the last one: What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school? Surely this was some kind... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-10-08 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 necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace, and when she asked her mother if she would... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-08-26 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 Out of Business sale we passed in the mall. There's nothing we need, his usual grumpy male comment. It's all ov... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-05-09 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 was only some common intestinal(肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very s... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-11-25 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 she took on the bus. Mrs. Conroy had made friends with the bus driver, Mr. Angstrom. He always woke her... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-08-29 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 fact her father. They had been together again (although she couldn't quite remember when they had bee... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-08-05 One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70, walks into a lawyer's office. Apparently, they are there to file a divorce. Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story. This couple had been quarreling all their 40 ov... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-08-05 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 development of their love. The lad was eager to write to the girl, yet he was quite sure that the father... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-07-11 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 believe it. He begged her to give him one more chance. She said she had already given him one more chance too many time... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-07-11 The crowd at the airport surged forward. The passengers had been waiting for a couple of hours for an airline employee to open the door leading to the plane outside. No one was in a good mood. An old man got trapped in the middle of the rush. He fel... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-07-11 It was the first day of class. Two of her new ESL classmates wanted to know where Tara was from. They were both from Iraq. Because Tara looked Iraqi, one of the women asked Tara, in English, if she was from Iraq. Tara replied, No, I'm not. Then the... 阅读全文>> 日期:2013-07-11 I had another bad dream, she told her fianc. It was about you again. You and your ex-girlfriend were kissing. I yelled at you to stop it. You looked right at me, and then you laughed at me! She laughed, too. Then you both went back to kissing. I tri... 阅读全文>> |
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