Slice of life - page 1 - short circuit

Children's

The Show Must Go On

Kate had butterflies in her stomach. Tonight was the nativity play; everything they'd rehearsed for the last month. Kate knew her lines and her song. She was fine with that. The problem was, they ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Friendship & Family 2 min

The Treehouse

Karen Tylek

My name is Zach, and I don't have a treehouse.

My new neighbor, Oliver, has an amazing treehouse built just for him. He's so lucky.

What I have is a stack of unread library books and a LOUD ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Poetry 1 min

Here's Ears

Ann Garrett

Elephants use their ears as fans;they're so much bigger than a man's.They scatter pesky flies with ease,and really stir up quite a breeze.This dog is called a Basset Hound.His tummy almost skims the ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Adventure 4 min

The Paperboy's Dog

Kathryn England

Jai placed the newspapers he'd rolled and wrapped in plastic into a trailer attached to his bike. He put more papers in a canvas shoulder bag. It was early morning as he set off on his paper run. Most ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Friendship & Family Poetry 1 min

Ice Cream at Bedtime

Susan Lendroth

Ice cream at bedtime,
Aunt Betty's the best!
She knows in the summer
it's hard to find rest

when faced with hot sheets,
hot pillows, hot bed,
no place cool enough
to lay a hot ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Friendship & Family 3 min

The New Kid

M L Owen

Phineas wished, for the two-thousand-three-hundred-and-twenty-third time, that he had a different name. His father was in the army, and the family moved fairly often. No, unfairly often. There was ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Adventure Friendship & Family 5 min Mature Audience

Thumbs Up

Nancy Coulter

Jennie rubbed the sandpaper rhythmically along the curved edge of the skateboard deck. On the sixth pass, the gritty paper caught the end of her finger.
"Ow!" Several tiny blood droplets came to the ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Friendship & Family Humor 2 min

A Hippo in the Kitchen

Edward Mack

There was a hippo in the kitchen. No one knew how it got there, or when, but there was undeniably an enormous, sloppy, disheveled hippo in the kitchen.
"And," I said, examining the lunch my mothe ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Humor 1 min

The Bear Under the Bed

Rolli .

Sometimes I can't sleep. That's because of the bear under the bed.

One night, the bear was breathing hard.

When he breathed in, the bed lifted up off the floor.

When he breathed out, the ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Humor Adventure 2 min

Farmer Renaud's Rainbow Sheep

Susan Lendroth

"Baa, baa, baaaaa" bleated Sally. "Life on the Renaud farm is blah, blah, blaaaah," she complained. "Nothing ever changes. Same sheep. Same hill. Same rocks... WHOOPS!"

The stone beneath Sally's ... [+]

Children's

Slice of life Friendship & Family 1 min

Wendell and Sam

Jill Nogales

Wendell the dog awoke to the wonderful smell of summer.

Samantha the cat stretched and yawned. She could smell it too. "This is a perfect day for..."

"...going to the beach, right?" Wendell ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

The Show Must Go On

The Treehouse

Here's Ears

The Paperboy's Dog

Ice Cream at Bedtime

The New Kid

Thumbs Up

A Hippo in the Kitchen

The Bear Under the Bed

Farmer Renaud's Rainbow Sheep

Wendell and Sam