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Short Stories For English Learners ( Flood) “Help!” out of a darkness perhaps ten feet away came the cry. A second later it sounded again, farther downstream, but I could do nothing. A mad rush of icy water was flowing over me. I was  clinging  to the branches of a tree, my body straight out in the fast-moving current. Then suddenly a form appeared. I recognized it as my son. He  grapped  one of the branches and gradually pulled himself to the tree. Inch by inch we fought against the powerful current and finally climbed to the top of the little apple tree. Twenty minutes before, we had been in our motorboat, looking for people who were  stranded  by the flood. The water was almost to the roofs of the houses and still rising. The street lights were out; the houses were dark except for a  kerosene  lamp left burning in a window here and there. The fire department whistle was warning everyone within hearing distance that the  dam  20 miles up river had broken. The state

Why Lincoln Grew a Beard? Best short stories for intermediate English learners Though he wore his  beard  only four years, today we can hardly think of Abraham Lincoln without it. He often talked about the little girl in  West field , New York, who suggested in a letter that he grow the famous the famous beard. Few know the girl’s name, there is no mention of 11-years old Grace Bedell in some of the thickest books puplished about Lincoln. But he enjoyed telling the story and would add with a quiet  chuckle , “sometime a small thing can change our lives!” The girl’s advice Grace Bedell sat in her  attic  room lookig at a picture which her father had given her. It was not a drawong and it was not a painting, yet you could see every hair on Lincoln’s head and all the details of his clothing. It was the first  photograph  Grace had ever seen. It gave her a strange feeling that the tall, lean man himself was looking at her. Grace little lamp threw shadows on the black-an