Short Stories in English

After O. Henry Miss Martha Meacham kept a little bakery on the corner. Miss Martha was forty and rather rich. She had two false teeth and a good heart. Many people had got married who had not so many chances as Miss Martha. Two or three times a week a customer came to her bakery in whom she began to take an interest. He was a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a brown beard. His clothes were worn, but he looked neat and had good manners.

Nature has always been a favorite theme for poets. Storms and adventures on the sea have inspired them to write stirring verses. Great forests have led them to write solemn songs. Mountains and valleys, hills and meadows, too, have given them inspiration. And indeed, can you find anyone who would not be thrilled by the beauties of nature, who would not be stirred by the charms of shape, color and motion?  I think everyone enjoys being out in the country. There is a great charm about gathering berries or looking for mushrooms in the silence of the wood. Perhaps you enjoy sauntering in the fields or rambling through the sweet-scented woods where as you move along you stop now and then to admire the white-stemmed birch trees or some blossoming shrubs. You may like climbing hills or following strange trails or looking for unusual plants. At the top of each hill, at each turn in the trail you come upon something new, something unexpected.  Perhaps you prefer watching insects

Men have known writing for at least six thousand years. The oldest kind of writing is picture writing. If you wanted to write 'man' you just drew a picture of a man. If you wanted to write 'the man is eating' you drew a picture of a man eating. A modern example of picture writing is Chinese. The Chinese characters do not look much like pictures because they have changed over the centuries, but that's how they began.