The Fabulist

Fables, yarns, tall tales, literary fantasy & science fiction.
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Slub Glub Chapter 26: Ballad of the Sad Crab

Posted on November 7th, 2010
Willowmina thought about this, and replied, "Hmmm. It sounds like you've had some trouble at home. Why don't you tell us about it." The crab, now joined by a baker's dozen of ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 25: Crabby Complaints

Posted on October 31st, 2010
"Okay, don't worry. All we'll have to do is convince the crabs to stop coming this way, and then you'll stop eating all of them, which means that no more sailors ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 24: The Monstrosity’s Lament

Posted on October 24th, 2010
But all of that was in the past. Getting back to the present situation, Slub Glub was raised above the water in the gentle curve of Seamort's massive pink tentacle. This ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 23: Slub Glub’s Birthday

Posted on October 24th, 2010
It was a sunny June afternoon when the sludgy chemical refuse of the General National corporation exited from its long journey through rusty cylindrical tubes to its eventual home in the ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 22: Black Bathtub Beginnings

Posted on October 17th, 2010
Seamort was not, in fact, Slub Glub's mother. Not only was Seamort a male giant squid, which at best would have made him Slub Glub's father, but Slub Glub had not ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 21: Interrupted Underwater Slumbers

Posted on October 10th, 2010
Slub Glub, who actually would have been able to swim if he had bothered to try, sank like a stone. As his lungs filled with seaweed, he turned an even darker ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 20: Crab Caravan

Posted on October 10th, 2010
And so there they were, Willowmina buoyed on the ocean waves and Slub Glub perched upon her branches, both now black as tar and covered in the dank sticky ink sprayed ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 19: Sea of Strange

Posted on October 3rd, 2010
"Well, there's something fishy going on, and we've got to get to the bottom of it, so goodbye, good luck, and say hello to the Baron for us," Willowmina told the ...
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Slub Glub Chapter 18: Further Evidence of Bad Times

Posted on September 26th, 2010
"Ooooh, I don't like the sound of that," Willowmina shuddered. "Yes, there are strange things in the deep sea, weird things best left in its briny depths," the babbling brook chimed in, ...