“The Lady or the Tiger?” is one of the most anthologized short stories for adolescents and teens, often appearing in literature collections and possessing a unique place in the short story genre: it leaves the ending to the reader, or the listener, in our case. The plot is left unresolved.

Shipwrecked sailors are forced to promise yearly human sacrifices to appease a terrible serpent with seven heads. How will the childless king and queen bring an end to the deaths?

A boy boasts of how he will kill a wolf; how will he react when he thinks a wolf is near?

When an emperor learns of a nightingale who sings beautifully in his garden, he makes the bird a guest of his court. When the emperor receives a mechanical nightingale as a gift he forgets about the real one, who takes the opportunity to escape the palace. But when the emperor is taken ill, can his mechanical bird comfort him?