Yellow Moepels

Yellow Moepels – General Understanding Quiz

Back to our Information Page

See top menu for all 1,500+ stories

Approximate Reading Times

Quick Read: under 5 minutes
Short Story: 5 to 30 minutes
Novelette: 30 to 90 minutes
Novella: 1.5 to 2.5 hours

Other stories you may like:

Look at All Those Roses
Short Story by Elizabeth Bowen. Car trouble on a deserted country road results in a woman spending several unsettling hours with an "amazon of a woman" and her seemingly psychic, paralyzed daughter. The pair, who she later learns harbor a frightening secret, make her increasingly anxious.
Redemption
Short Story by John Gardner. When a twelve-year-old boy kills his seven-year-old brother in a horrific farm accident, he and his family are devastated. His father falls apart, his mother and five-year-old sister put their faith in God and the boy, knowing the accident was preventable, relives it every day.
The Age of Lead
Short Story by Margaret Atwood. A frozen 150-year-old body provides a lesson for the living. The story uses the mystery illness that killed members of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to highlight the dangers of consumerism and modern technology such as soil and water pollution, toxic waste and acid rain.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Short Story by Ursula Le Guin. A philosophical narrative describing life in the seemingly utopian city of Omelas. We learn that (almost!) everyone in the city lives in complete happiness. There is no organized system of rule, few laws, sexual freedom, no crime, no violence, and nobody living in want.
Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter
Novelette by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. After failing ill in India, widowed Mrs Dutti’s moves to America to live with her son. When her attempts to integrate with his family cause problems on both sides, she finds the courage to admit she will be happier back home.

Powder
Quick Read by Tobias Wolff. A father and son have very different personalities. The two share a moment of bonding when the conservative boy “lets go” and enjoys his irresponsible father’s dangerous drive down a snow-covered mountain in order to get home from a skiing holiday in time for Christmas.
City of Specters
Short Story by Bandi. “Unpatriotic behavior” by a two-year-old North Korean child results in banishment of a senior bureaucrat and his family to the countryside. The child’s crime: having a panic attack and screaming in fear when confronted with large banners featuring portraits of Kim II-sung and Karl Marx!
Old Love
Novelette by Jeffrey Archer. A couple go from rivalry-inspired hatred at first sight to literally being unable to live without each other. From the time they meet as Oxford undergraduates, a fierce sense of competition spurs them on to topping their class, attaining professorships, and earning royal honors.
The Goose Father
Short Story by Krys Lee. Sexual tension builds between a South Korean “goose father” and a tenant he takes in after six months’ living alone. The enigmatic tenant, a young man half the landlord’s age, arrives with a goose he believes to be his reincarnated mother.
Leaving the Yellow House
Novelette by Saul Bellow. A seventy-two-year-old woman reviews her life of lost opportunities after an accident threatens her ability to live independently in her isolated, off-the-grid Yellow House. She has no close family or friends to turn to, and nobody “good enough” to bequeath her only treasure (the house) to.