【英文短篇小说】The Kite（2）

No reference was made next day to what had passed. Mrs Sunbury was frigidly polite to Herbert and he was sullen and silent. After supper he went out. On Saturday he told his father and mother that he was engaged that afternoon and wouldnt be able to

【英文短篇小说】The Kite（1）

THE KITE I know this is an odd story. I dont understand it myself and if I set it down in black and white it is only with a faint hope that when I have written it I may get a clearer view of it, or rather with the hope that some reader, better acquai

【英文短篇小说】The Fly（3）

I had to wait a while to pull myself together, and then I knocked slowly three times. I heard Andre shuffling behind the door, then his hand fumbling with the lock, and the door opened. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that he was standing behind t

【英文短篇小说】The Book Signing（2）

Carmody stared at the sidewalk, at Seanies scuffed black shoes, and heard her voice: When Buddy comes back. Saw the fine hair at the top of her neck. Thinking: Here I am, Im back. So she waited for you, Buddy. Year after year in that dark goddamned f

【英文短篇小说】Fantastic Mr Fox（2）

7 Well Never Let Him Go At six oclock in the evening, Bean switched off the motor of his tractor and climbed down from the drivers seat. Bunce did the same. Both men had had enough. They were tired and stiff from driving the tractors all day. They we

【英文短篇小说】Fantastic Mr Fox

1 The Three Farmers Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Bo

【英文短篇小说】Goodbye, My Brother（2）

Chaddy came in to play with me. Chaddy and I have never liked to lose to each other. When we were younger, we used to be forbidden to play games together, because they always ended in a fight. We think we know each others mettle intimately. I think h

【英文短篇小说】Goodbye, My Brother（1）

WE ARE a family that has always been very close in spirit. Our father was drowned in a sailing accident when we were young, and our mother has always stressed the fact that our familial relationships have a kind of permanence that we will never meet

【英文短篇小说】The Swimmer

IT WAS ONE of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, I drank too much last night. You might have heard it whispered by the parishioners leaving church, heard it from the lips of the priest himself, struggling with his cassock in th

【英文短篇小说】The Enormous Radio

JIM AND IRENE WESTCOTT were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, t

【英文短篇小说】War Dances（3）

DRUGSTORE INDIAN In Bartell Drugs, I gave the pharmacist my prescription for prednisone. Is this your first fill with us? she asked. No, I said. And it wont be my last. I felt like an ass, but she looked bored. Itll take thirty minutes, she said. Mor

【英文短篇小说】War Dances（2）

HYDROCEPHALUS Merriam-Websters dictionary defines hydrocephalus as an abnormal increase in the amount of cerebrospinal fluid within the cranial cavity that is accompanied by expansion of the cerebral ventricles, enlargement of the skull and especiall

【英文短篇小说】The Limited & Breaking and Entering

The Limited I saw a man swerve his car And try to hit a stray dog, But the quick mutt dodged Between two parked cars And made his escape. God, I thought, did I just see What I think I saw? At the next red light, I pulled up beside the man And stared

【英文短篇小说】Fantastic Mr Fox（3）

13 Bunces Giant Storehouse My dear Foxy! cried Badger. What in the world has happened to your tail? Dont talk about it, please, said Mr Fox. Its a painful subject. They were digging the new tunnel. They dug on in silence. Badger was a great digger an

【英文短篇小说】Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man（1）

Maybe it would be best to begin this way. Let's start, in fact, on the day that it all started, with Laura already at work in the county library. But here's the thingas the day goes by, maybe she won't even come to realize yet that the dead are sudde

【英文短篇小说】Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man（2）

That was a bit closer, perhaps, but still . . . No, that one wasn't right, either. So far, with each of these stories, I'm making it all sound too pat. I really should stop trying to make sense of it. After all, part of the truth of zombies (and by z

【英文短篇小说】Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man（3）

I watched as he tumbled out from the safety of his truck and began hopping, but I could not spare him any more of my attention after that. A second zombie, perhaps sensing my presence on that street as I imagined only a zombie could (or was that trul

【英文短篇小说】The Fly（1）

The Fly. By George Langelann. I. TELEPHONES AND telephone bells have always made me uneasy. Years ago, when they were mostly wall fixtures, I disliked them, but nowadays, when they are planted in every nook and corner, they are a downright intrusion.

【英文短篇小说】The Fly（2）

IV. It was only on reaching home, as I walked from the garage to the house, that I read the inscription on the envelope: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (Probably Commissaire Charas) Having told the servants that I would have only a light supper to be served

【英文短篇小说】War Dances（1）

THE DREAM Hercule Poirot gave the house a steady appraising glance. His eyes wandered a moment to its surroundings, the shops, the big factory building on the right, the blocks of cheap mansion flats opposite. Then once more his eyes returned to Nort