When I was growing up, every evening before bedtime my father would tell my brothers and me stories of his childhood. “Tell us a story about when you were little, Dad!” my brothers and I would cry.
If you could take a pill to “cure” your loneliness, would you take it? The so-called “loneliness epidemic” has been widely reported and commented upon across the world in recent years, affecting young ...
A simple online search of “why family stories are important” yields over two billion hits — everything from news and magazine articles to self-help books and online resources to help you share your ...
Spooky season is here and with it comes the desire to soak in all things horror. There are plenty of horror movies and novels to read this October, but if you’re looking for something a bit less ...
When done well, storytelling brings sterile data to life. But stories can also be told in ways that ignore data and perpetuate harmful myths. And when it comes to gun violence, the stories that ...
Most people think kindness has to be big to matter. But these true stories showed that the moments that changed people’s lives the most were often the smallest — a folded note, an extra lunch, a quiet ...
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Each year, BBC 500 Words partner, Oxford University Press, releases their Children's Language Report - a unique study which deep dives into the stories to find out what children are writing about.