https://xpressenglish.com featuring the world's best short stories Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:23:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://xpressenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-bookworm-32x32.jpg https://xpressenglish.com 32 32 https://xpressenglish.com/griffin-and-minor-canon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=griffin-and-minor-canon Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:03:44 +0000 https://xpressenglish.com/?p=41323 Grade 5-6 Story by Frank Stockton. A griffin visits a village and befriends a hard-working junior priest. The worried townspeople suggest that their visitor dines on the children at an orphanage in the next town, but the griffin thinks the priest is the only one in the area worth eating.

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