Intermediate stories
Original Brazilian Portuguese stories written for this level, with comprehension questions.
Short stories
40 original stories written for this level, each with a comprehension check.
O discurso de despedida
A young employee in Recife has to write a farewell speech for a quiet colleague nobody in the office really knows.
A coxinha do seu Valdir
When a flashy chain opens across the street from his snack bar in Belo Horizonte, an old cook notices a strange daily customer.
O livro emprestado
In a used bookstore in Porto Alegre, Renata finds a book she once gave to the friend she hasn't spoken to in fifteen years.
O mistério do sexto andar
In a quiet apartment building in Curitiba, warm bread starts appearing at every door, and the building manager decides to find out who is leaving it.
A banda da vovó
Hours before her wedding in Salvador, Tainá learns that the DJ can't come, and her grandmother makes a few phone calls.
A quarta tentativa
A nurse in Florianópolis who has failed her driving test three times goes back for a fourth try, on a rainy day.
A mangueira da discórdia
In Belém, two old neighbors have fought for thirty years over a mango tree, until one of them has a granddaughter with no job and an idea.
A resposta da universidade
A student in Manaus wins a scholarship to study in France, but she doesn't know how to leave her mother and the family food stall.
O dono do Biscoito
A shy programmer in São Paulo finds a wet beagle at his gate and posts its photo online to find the owner.
O palco vazio
Forty minutes before the main show of a music festival in Goiânia, the headline band is stuck on the road and the producer needs someone to go on stage.
A herança da tia Zuleide
When his great-aunt dies in Niterói, Rodrigo inherits only her bad-tempered old parrot, which keeps saying very strange things.
Os bilhetes amarelos
An illustrator working in a coworking space in Fortaleza starts finding anonymous notes on her drawings every morning.
As tranças da Sofia
A bus driver walks into a women's hair salon in São Luís with an unusual request and only five days to spare.
A reunião de segunda
Fernanda works from her grandmother's house in Campinas, and on the day of a very important video meeting she leaves her desk for four minutes.
A dívida
Thirteen years after his best friend vanished with his savings, Bruno gets an invitation to a restaurant opening in Vitória.
O piano do subsolo
In her diary, a journalism student in João Pessoa writes about the ghostly piano music her neighbors hear in the middle of the night.
Os noivos fugitivos
In Juiz de Fora, two widowed retirees announce that they want to get married, and their grown-up children are not pleased.
Sem sal, por favor
After losing her bank job in Teresina, Keila starts selling lunch boxes from her kitchen, and one customer always makes the same odd request.
A vaga 17
In a condo in Natal, a strict lawyer and the young drummer next door go to war over a parking space.
A doceria dos três irmãos
Three siblings who barely speak inherit their father's sweet shop in Pelotas, with a condition in the will that none of them wanted.
A onça que não posou
A nature photographer spends five days on the rivers of the Pantanal hoping to photograph a jaguar.
O mapa do diamante
In Lençóis, in the Chapada Diamantina, two tourists from Rio buy an old treasure map and ask a young guide to follow it with them.
O Saci da pousada
A skeptical city man on vacation in São Luiz do Paraitinga decides to prove that the strange things happening at his guesthouse have a logical explanation.
As iniciais no banco
An old man takes his granddaughter on the steam train from Ouro Preto to Mariana, looking for something he left at the station sixty years ago.
A garrafa de 1998
A fisherman in Paraíba finds an old bottle on the beach with a letter from a girl who wrote it decades earlier.
Carta dos Lençóis
In a letter to her sister, a teacher from Curitiba describes her trip to the Lençóis Maranhenses, which did not go as planned.
A areia de Noronha
On the last day of a family vacation in Fernando de Noronha, an eight-year-old girl tries to take a little of the island home for her grandmother.
As pegadas ao contrário
A truck driver lost at night in the Amazon rainforest of Pará follows a line of footprints, hoping they will lead him to help.
Cinco dias de rede
A young man from São Paulo loses his phone on the first day of a five-day boat trip up the Amazon from Belém to Manaus.
Como é a cachoeira?
A bored tour guide at the Iguaçu Falls gets a question from a tourist that he has never been asked before.
O queijo do tio Zeca
A young woman from São Paulo inherits a small cheese farm in Minas Gerais and goes there only to sell it.
O mapa de papel
A father insists on using only a paper map on a camping trip with his teenage daughter in the Chapada dos Veadeiros.
O guarda de Dois Rios
A woman travels to Ilha Grande with an old photo of her grandfather, who worked as a guard at the island's prison decades ago.
O lobisomem de Oeiras
In an old town in Piauí, a man who is the seventh son of his family is blamed when strange things start happening on full-moon nights.
A guia e o professor
On her first week as a tour guide in Paraty, a young woman is followed by an old man who keeps correcting her.
Flutuar no Rio da Prata
A sixty-year-old man who has been afraid of water all his life is given a river snorkeling trip in Bonito as a present.
A mula sem cabeça
In the old town of Pirenópolis, people start hearing hoofbeats and seeing sparks in the streets at midnight, and a police sergeant has to investigate.
Ninguém afunda no Jalapão
When their jeep breaks down in the middle of the Jalapão, two travelers who can't stand each other have to spend a night together.
Diário de Abrolhos
A biology student keeps a diary during a week on a research boat counting humpback whales off the coast of Bahia.
A parede mais antiga
A graffiti artist from São Paulo reluctantly visits the prehistoric rock paintings of the Serra da Capivara, in Piauí.