English stories

Once upon a time, there lived a woodcutter in a village. He used to cut wood for his household. He lived with his father, son, daughter, and wife. When his children were young, her income was very good and his household was very well maintained. His father was an elderly man. He was happily living his life there but suddenly a very sad incident happened. His wife died. It was a big shock for him and his children too. Now he had to look after the work both at home and forest. He could not pay much attention to his business. Because at home he had to serve both his father and children. He was confused.    After some time, he got married again, who turned out to be cruel and selfish. She did not care about his children and father at all. She would not give them anything to eat and would fight all the time. As the days passed by but the condition of the woodcutter’s house started to deteriorate. The woodcutter’s wife did not support him at all. His wife wanted to get rid of his ...

Once upon a time, there was a person whose name was Ali. He lived with his wife, he had no children and he wished to have a son. He was unemployed, so it was very difficult for him to manage his routine expenses. Because Ali was unemployed, therefore, he used to go to town every day with his friends in search of a job.  Ali was very serious about his job. He tried different methods to get a job. Once he along with his friends participated in a lottery. Fortunately, he won the lottery and that huge amount of land came in his name. Now the appearance of his house had changed. Now he was rich and sometimes went hunting with his friends. They wandered in the forest till evening, but no prey came to them. They were coming back when a baby deer passed in front of them. They grabbed him and started taking him with them. They had gone a little far, and when they looked back, they were surprised to see that deer was following him again. She was the mother of that child. It looked like she w...

once upon a time, there was a king who was very rich. He was very ungrateful. He wanted him to become richer, so he wanted him to have the ability to turn anything he touched into gold. He was so greedy. When he went to his room, he saw a light in the room, from which an angel came out. The angel told him that every time you touch anything with the first rays of morning, it will turn into gold.                                    This is what happens when he wakes up in the morning and touched something, it turned into gold. When he went to the dining table and pick up a cup of tea, it turned to gold. And when he tried to eat his food, it also turned into gold, and even when he went back to his room and touched his daughter, she also turned into gold. Now he could not understand anything. He got very worried.  N...

There was a beautiful village away from the city. The villagers were very simple, poor but sweet-hearted. They used to live within their resources and always remained thankful to Allah Almighty. They never made complaints to anyone about their poverty. Due to their behavior, they remained happy and self-satisfied. There was a very poor person named Sher, who had with him, only his wife. The couple had no kid; even then they always remained happy and thankful to their Allah Almighty. People around them were very surprised by their satisfaction. Sher was a simple but very jolly person and was a source of amusement for his villagers.     Sher was also low paid employee at an office in the city. He was not having a bicycle and due to his poverty, he couldn’t afford to visit his house except on weekends. There was one person named Fateh in his office that was also from the same village. That person was having a bicycle to commute on daily basis. The same person was Sher’s superviso...

  Once upon a time, there was a king who had three daughters. He loved them very much and was afraid of losing them. He always got saddened by the thought that these three would leave him one by one after their marriage. One day he called his three daughters and asked them, “How much they loved him”. First of all, he asked the eldest one and asked her, "How much do you love me". She replied that she loves her father, the most in the world. He then asked the same question to his second daughter, and she also replied in the same words. After that he turned to his youngest daughter and asked her the same, she replied, “I love you even more than the salt.” Hearing this, the king was annoyed and thought that he has worth equal to that of salt in her third daughter’s eyes. This daughter does not love him and she should be thrown out of the palace. So the king decided to arrange her marriage with an ordinary person. King’s daughter was confused about this and tried her best to prove...

Once upon a time, there was a King who was commanding a large state.   One day the King was sitting with his minister, King’s mood was very pleasant. He asked his minister, “What is a wish of his life which you always thought to be fulfilled, which never happened”. The minister was shy to put his demand but the K insisted to tell about his wish. The minister said. “Your majesty, you have a beautiful large state under your command, if you agree, I want to get ten percent of your beautiful state, I want to command that part of State”. The king said, “if I give you half of my kingdom, What will you do”? Minister got nervous about this statement of Kind and was thinking, how it is possible, how he could be so lucky? The king immediately called the secretary and ordered him to write two orders. In the first order, the king issued a decree of handing over half of his kingdom to his minister. In the second order, the King ordered to behead of the minister. The Minister was surprised ...

There was a family of ghosts living in a place; they had made their homes. This was agricultural land belonging to a farmer. The farmer always used to plough it to grow new crops. This action of the farmer always disturbed the ghost’s family as their houses used to destroy and they had to build their houses again. They had to do this practice every farming season and they became fed up with this routine. They had their chief ghost, to whom they always put their request to have some solution, but the chief ghost always delayed his action and never resolved the issue, which resulted in frustration amongst the ghost family. One day when the chief ghost had gone anywhere, the ghost family decided to meet the farmer to have an agreement with him. They went to the farmer’s house in the shape of a delegation and met him to resolve the issue. One the ghost said to the farmer’ “We live in the land where you grow your crops in every season. We have our houses, occupies with our wives and kids...