Short story collection

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The boy who cried Wolf

Once, there was a boy who became bored when he watched over the village sheep grazing on the hillside. To entertain himself, he sang out, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!”

When the villagers heard the cry, they ran up the hill to drive the wolf away. But when they arrived, they saw no wolf. The boy was amused when he saw their angry faces.

“Don’t scream wolf when there is no wolf, boy!” the villagers warned. They angrily went back down the hill.

Later, the shepherd boy cried out once again, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!” To his amusement, the villagers came running up the hill to scare the wolf away.

As they saw there was no wolf, they said strictly, “Save your frightened cry for when there really is a wolf! Don’t cry ‘wolf’ when there is no wolf!” But the boy grinned at their words while they walked, grumbling down the hill once more.

Later, the boy saw a real wolf sneaking around his flock. Alarmed, he jumped on his feet and cried out as loud as he could, “Wolf! Wolf!” But the villagers thought he was fooling them again, and they didn’t come to help.

At sunset, the villagers went looking for the boy who hadn’t returned with their sheep. When they went up the hill, they found him weeping.

“There was a wolf here! The flock is gone! I cried out, ‘Wolf!’ but you didn’t come,” he wailed.

An older man went to comfort the boy. As he put his arm around him, he said, “Nobody believes a liar, even when he is telling the truth!”

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Planet Football

Planet football is a planet in outer space inhabited by legendary footballers who used to live on Earth earlier. The size of Planet Football was 6000 times the size of a regular football stadium. 

One day back on Earth, a group of 7 children from a village in India wanted to watch a football match happening in their nearest stadium. They went to buy tickets. However, after reaching the stadium they were shooed away by the organisers for not having enough money for the tickets. 

The children returned to their village disappointed. They gathered near the usual riverside where they used to play football. Far away they could see the lights of the stadium where the match was happening, which made them even more upset. 

All of a sudden, they saw a spaceship in the sky that was coming towards them. It had a name ‘Planet Football Spaceship’ written on it. The spaceship stopped mid-air and a voice came from it that said, ‘Hey, I am from Planet Football. Join me to have some footballing fun”. The children got excited and agreed to join. Soon they realised that they were on the spacehip flying to a faraway land. 

As they landed, to their utter shock and surprise, they were welcomed by the legendary footballers, Pele, Maradonna and Cruyff and many other legends of this game who lived on Planet Football. 

One of them said to them, “Welcome to Planet Football my young friends. You are about to watch a football match played by some of us”. 

The stadium that they were brought to was more magnificent and splendid than the best they have heard of on Earth. What was even more exciting was the match between the legends, who were worshipped as Gods back on Earth. Not just this, the children also got an opportunity to play a fun match with these legends. 

After the eventful match, the children thanked all the players and returned to Earth back on the spaceship.

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