The Fabulist

Fables, yarns, tall tales, literary fantasy & science fiction.
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Slub Glub Chapter Eleven: ‘Specters Spectacular’

Posted on August 1st, 2010
"Just fireflies?" Lumprella shrieked. "See for yourself! They are upon us!" All the witches screamed and ran for the hills, and the hyenas and raccoons followed suit. Slub Glub and Willowmina ...
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Slub Glub Chapter Ten: ‘A Multitude of Mysteries’

Posted on July 25th, 2010
"The heads of a hundred horses will be lodged in your cheek, you freak!" The witch was still trying to cast a spell on Slub Glub. "With my fourth eye I ...

Color Bind

Posted on July 21st, 2010
By Michael C. Keith There is only one way of seeing them, and that is,seeing the whole of them.--John Ruskin Life forms from V12 in the NGC4203 galaxy 10.4 million light years from Earth ...
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Slub Glub Chapter Nine: ‘Evil Words are Spoken’

Posted on July 18th, 2010
Slub Glub came back to the coven of witches, who had now gathered around Willowmina and were trying to set fire to her with their torches, which had somehow been relit ...
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Confluence: Five Landscapes

Posted on July 11th, 2010
Images by David Goldberg [Proofreader's Note: In the urban interior, street art sprouts amid authoritarian architecture like weeds through cracks in concrete, parks and gardens grow wild around the artifacts and intent of ...
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Slub Glub Chapter Eight: ‘Buttery Shudders’

Posted on July 11th, 2010
"A pox on you!" cackled one of the witches. Her green nose was spotted with warts, and a pointed black hat covered her stringy grey hair. She and her coven of ...
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Slub Glub Chapter Seven: ‘What Witches Ride’

Posted on July 4th, 2010
Willowmina put one of her branches to her head, and with great exasperation, said, "Hyenas. Fine. If we can get them to stop laughing at you and calling you names, will ...
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Tintamarre-ruckus-bedlam-pother-and-brawl, Behave!

Posted on June 27th, 2010
By Bosley Gravel It all started when Eugenia looked out the window one Saturday morning and saw children peddle by on their bikes. "Sometimes," she said to Ruth, her partner of four decades, ...
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Slub Glub Chapter Six: ‘Masked Marauders Amassed’

Posted on June 27th, 2010
After a short trek, Slub Glub and Willowmina came to a marshy area alongside a muddy stream. "There's those blasted bandits," Willowmina spat, pointing one branch towards a hollow log, from which ...