Things categorized as 'Fables'
Centaur in Brass 2041
By Jeremy Adam Smith When I was a kid, there were no canals, no vaporettos, no peacekeepers. That San Francisco seems exotically technicolor to me now, like one of those planets the ...
Losing His Head
by Michael C. Keith Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him . . . —William Shakespeare To the outside world Jerry Farelli appeared to have everything life could offer: good looks, excellent health, and ...
Gleam
by Niall Boyce I had lost track of the days. The first hint that I was near my destination was the glimmer of the plastic sheets flapping in the desert breeze. It was ...
Mawulf Sees the World
By Adam Myers In the very long, long ago, (or maybe in the soon, soon to be), there lived a curious creature whose name was Mawulf. Now Mawulf was curious in two ways. First, ...
The Burning Turtle
by Michael C. Keith The Creature has a purpose and his eyes are bright with it. -- John Keats Turtles communicate mostly by grunting, and what they have to say is amazing. I know because ...
Perfect Day
By Adam Myers My good friend Marianne once asked me, “What is your definition of a perfect day?” She was flipping through one of those women’s magazines, reading the questions of some quiz out ...
Kocau-Asu-Asu and the Imp
One day Kocau-Asu-Asu was working in his field. And as he dug and ploughed and displaced soil, he woke up a shriveled imp sleeping under a stone.Now the imp was an ancient, ...