Ira Glass

These stories where kids take a perfectly logical premise and go through a series of perfectly logical deductions that lead to perfectly incorrect conclusions.

It turns out that science does not have a name for these stories, which is surprising given how common they are and how they are recognized around the world for their sheer entertainment value.

Here, we've collected a few more.

We lived in a duplex.

I thought, wow, that must be the way they talk.

It was like a scientific discovery.

I discovered the first ghost people.

And they talked to me.

I communicated.

I waved.

They waved.

I said, you know, hello.

And they said hello in their language.

That too, werewolves in their youth.

In this act, we have this example of kids thinking like kids.

It's an excerpt of a short story by Michael Chabon.

I had known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as plastic man and titanium man and matter-eater lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even for a week as the Mackinac Bridge.

But it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.

I wasn't there when it happened.

I was down in the ravine at the edge of the schoolyard, founding a capital for an empire of ants.