Stories suitable for parents and children to read together.
Story 2: The Thing That Looked Back No one noticed it at first. That was the first mistake. The anomaly didn’t arrive with sound or light or destruction. It arrived as a delay—a hesitation so small it could be ignored. A satellite adjusted its position one nanosecond too late.A quantum sensor returned the same result…
Story 1: The Day the Messages Stopped Tomorrow didn’t arrive all at once. It slipped in quietly—through screens, through drawings, through the silence between seconds. It began with notifications. Not alarms. Not reminders.Messages. They appeared on phones without apps, without senders, without sound. “Carry an umbrella.”It rained exactly three minutes later. “Don’t take the second…
Story 3: The Bridge That Waited A narrow wooden bridge crossed a quiet river at the edge of a town.It was old, weathered by sun and rain, but it had carried people safely for many years. One afternoon, as clouds gathered and the river began to rise, two travelers reached the bridge from opposite sides….
Story 2: The Shell That Did Not Run Near a slow river, where the water moved gently and the ground stayed cool, lived two turtles. They were born on the same day and grew up side by side. When danger came, they reacted very differently. One turtle believed speed was safety.Whenever footsteps shook the ground…
Story 4: The Lamp That Stayed On In a small village in India, where nights were wrapped in cricket sounds and warm air, lived a boy named Arjun. Arjun was afraid of the dark. Not the kind of dark with stars—but the kind where corners grew quiet and shadows felt awake. Every night, when the…
Secrets watch. Darkness listens. Story 3: The Friend Who Counted Seconds Kesh always counted when he was afraid. No one noticed it at first. When storms came, he counted the seconds between thunder and rain.When guards passed too close, he counted their steps.When doors closed behind them, he counted the heartbeats before silence settled. Right…
Secrets watch. Darkness listens. Story 2: The Map That Lied The bells did not stop ringing. They echoed through the kingdom long after the sun rose—slow, heavy tolls that pressed against the chest like a warning meant only for the living. No one announced who had died. No flags were lowered. Yet everyone knew something…
Secrets watch. Darkness listens. Story 1: The Door That Opened Twice No one remembered when the door first appeared. It stood at the far end of the abandoned passageway, hidden beneath a broken arch of stone, where torchlight hesitated and shadows gathered too closely together. The door was old—older than the castle walls themselves—its surface…
Story 8: The Place Where Time Refused to Hurry They found the place by accident. Or at least, that’s what the city wanted them to believe. The street they turned into looked ordinary—narrow, uneven, lined with closed shops and faded signs. But the moment they stepped onto it, something changed. The noise dropped. Not slowly.Immediately….
Story No. 4: Threads That Remember The morning air felt different. Not quieter.Not louder.Just… expectant. Sam noticed it first when she stepped outside. Color fluttered everywhere—paper streamers, cloth banners, lanterns waiting to be lit. “What’s happening today?” she asked. The woman from the house smiled. “A festival,” she said. “A small one. But important.” Grandfather…
