Easy Stories in English

The podcast that will take your English from OK to Good and from Good to Great!

Tag: Religion

The Spider’s Thread (Pre-Intermediate)

Dec 6, 2022

—

Genre: Philosophical

Setting: Japan

New Vocabulary: Buddha, Crawl, Demon, Evil, Heaven, Hell, Just as, Needle, Suffer, Take a few liberties, Thread, Truly

Word Count: 1501

Original Author: Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

Kandata was an evil thief when was alive, and now he lives in Hell. Buddha remembers a time when Kandata did good, and decides to give him a chance to show that he isn’t truly evil. Will Kandata become good, or is he simply a bad person?
His Latest Experiment

Jul 19, 2022

—

Genre: Science Fiction

Setting: Ancient

New Vocabulary: After-show party, Bark (dog), Calculation, Coding, Disaster, Drag (art), Earthling, Economy, Error, Flash fiction, Gender, Graduate, Heartwarming, Heaven, Lifespan, Magnesium, Move on, Pregnancy, Rounding (maths), Times (maths)

Word Count: 522

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

God is trying to make humans, but something is wrong. His calculations look right, but the humans are staying babies for fifty years. What is the problem?