The Strawberry – A Japanese Story (Çilek – Bir Japon Hikayesi)[İngilizce Hikayeler & English Stories] There once was a man. (Bir zamanlar bir adam vardı.) A wild tiger was chasing him across a field. (Vahşi bir kaplan onu tarla boyunca kovalıyordu.) At the end of the field there was a cliff. (Tarlanın sonunda bir uçurum…
The Buzzard, The Bat, and the Bumblebee (Akbaba, Yarasa ve Yabanarısı)[İngilizce Hikayeler & English Stories] If you put a buzzard in a place six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top, (Bir akbabayı üstü tamamiyle açık bir metrekareden küçük bir yere koyduğunuzda,) the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, (kuş,…
Count Dracula was one of the Un-Dead, but Jonathan Harker didn’t know that and he agreed to help him to buy a house in London. And so, he was in Transylvania. He had six hours to wait before the coach came to take him to the Castle Dracula, so he went to a hotel….
A couple, whom we shall call John and Mary, had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good job and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and would be gone for several days. It was decided that Mary needed…
Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell…
There was once a bridge which spanned a large river. During most of the day the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to pass thru freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times each day, a train would come…
In the 1930s a young traveler was exploring the French Alps. He came upon a vast stretch of barren land. It was desolate. It was forbidding. It was ugly. It was the kind of place you hurry away from. Then, suddenly, the young traveler stopped dead in his tracks. In the middle of this…
Once there was a family that was not rich and not poor. They lived in Ohio in a small country house. One night they all sat down for dinner, and there was a knock at the door. The father went to the door and opened it.There stood an old man in tattered clothes, with…
Chicken translation: Piliç çevirme. Leave the door december: Kapıyı aralık bırak. Clean family girl: Temiz aile kızı. Your hand is on the job your eye is on playing: Elin işte gözün oynaşta. Sensitive meat ball: İçli köfte. Urinate quickly, satan mixes: Acele işe şeytan karışır There is no saturation to her observations: Onun gözlemelerine doyum…
When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper at a local hospital in my town. I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer. Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors, and nobody seemed to care about his condition.I spent…
