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Is talent more important to success than hard work? Sometimes if we are determined and focused on our goals, we can overcome even the strongest opponents. And vise versa: we should ...

Who do you think is stronger – the Sun or the North Wind? They both found themselves in a dispute because they both thought that they were strongest. They saw a traveler who was ju ...

A touch of fortune can sometimes be enough to unlock endless greed in a person. And greed is rarely a good advisor as it could lead us to a short-sighted destruction of a valuable ...

Sometimes no matter how hard we try, we cannot reach our goal. And, of course, it is much easier to claim our goal undesirable than to admit defeat. There is hardly a child who doe ...

Sweet words and manipulative compliments can make everyone's head spin. The 'Fox and the Crow' teaches us to keep clear mind in the face of flattery. Aesop (620–564 BCE) was a sto ...

In "Call Girl for the Night – and other erotic short stories" Christina Tempest writes about tingling lust, sex with strangers and the playful world of roleplaying games.The book i ...

Urbanus was a young and pious young man who was entrusted with the keys to the cloister’s book collection. Urbanus spent his days reading the writings of the Apostle Paul. He was h ...

Why were the fables created? Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of the wise men of ancient times who ingeniously discovered how to tell people the truth without being blunt to ...

A prince and a princess were just married. They were in love, their relationship was stronger than anything. And they wanted to keep it like that forever. But how? They thought tha ...

If you think that the destiny of four pigs and one coach can’t become intertwined, you may as well grab Hans Christian Andersen’s tale "The Pigs". When everything seems predestined ...

Once lived an old woman who was so poor that she could not afford to buy coffin for her death husband. She was desperate and hopeless and the only thing that kept her going was the ...

There once was a man who held an office that required good penmanship. While he filled the office ably otherwise, he was incapable of good penmanship, so he advertised in the newsp ...

With the beginning of a new century, we wait for one thing, a new source of inspiration for our poetry that will set it apart from that of the previous centuries. But where is thi ...

Is the good deed worth it if it remains a secret? It is indeed meaningful and significant both for the one who reaches out a helping hand and for the one who takes it. "Kept Secret ...

Here we are in Paris, where we will visit the exhibition. On the square next to our hotel, we are planting a tree that will shelter a dryad. This dryad, when its tree lived in the ...

The windmill on the top of the hill swelled with pride whenever someone looked up at him. And even though he pretended not to be, he was very proud of himself as well!Hans Christia ...

Outside, it is dark. The earth and the trees are covered with snow and a storm arrives with the clouds. But we are sitting inside next to the fire and we tell stories to pass the t ...

Now that we are in Jylland, we will go to the Börglum monastery, right at the top of the hill of sand. It is night, and on the upper floors of the monastery, the wind howls – the a ...

"Liliane ger sig hän och dansar hon också. Kontakten med kropparna runt omkring henne gör henne kåt igen. Hon slukar sångaren med blicken. Hon vill känna hans doft och hud, hur han ...

Denna novell är utgiven i samarbete med BlancheStories."Det finns stunder, som just nu till exempel, då det bränner till mellan benen. Då hon vill att en hård kuk ska tränga in i h ...

'Författaren av kärleksboken «The Perfumed Garden» beskriver en kyss som är ''mer berusande än vin i oändliga mängder''. Hans omåttligt populära recept lyder: "Den bästa kyssen är ...

'Jag har alltid varit fascinerad av kvinnor som låter sig fotograferas för herrtidningar. Vilka är de egentligen? Vad tänker de på när de särar på benen och klämmer på brösten fram ...

'Jag skickade ett tyst tack till Mona, som hade låtit mig ärva uppdraget som hon beskrivit som "spännande men krävande". Hon hade själv haft samma uppdrag där hon arbetat tidigare, ...

'Min fru Anja tänder en cigarett. Vi står och tittar ut över vattnet. Det blåser lätt i hennes blonda hår, och jag lägger armen om henne. Även om vi har haft våra gräl, och inte al ...

'I vänthallen satt hon nu rastlöst på ett träsäte och hoppades att hennes darrande upphetsning inte kunde ses. Men det kändes som att alla tittade. Män och kvinnor gav henne blicka ...