December 2011
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“I suppose a two-year-old boy is not much different from a wallaby, it could...”
– Sky news excerpt. Most surreal comparison between children and marsupials that I have heard in awhile.
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The Debt- Collectors
The dying have different priorities to those with their feet firmly planted in the world of the living. Survival, for instance, or, if the former cannot be achieved, last farewells. So it does not normally suit them to have to make introductions for some of the stranger, more shadowy guests that attend them in their twilight hours.
Apart from the King, who is expecting them, hardly anyone notices...
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The Shop of Unnecessariness
In the times when people knew better, which was, if you listen to most people, apparently any time but the present, there was a shop that sold unnecessary things. This is not unusual, as most shops now will fall under that category. But unlike those places, this shop was not stocked with frozen mini pies or objects shaped like whimsical animals, although one may argue about the occasions where...
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Illustrations & dreams →
Link to a wonderfully enchanting collection of artwork to accompany well known classic fairytales, no Disney I promise.
Want even more stories? →
Link to more tales and fables with appropriate artwork.
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Enchantment
Hush! Here they come now! Watch! They descend in a cloud of powdery white, silently, unnoticed despite their number.
I spoke with one, once. Its’ sisters would not, but it spoke to me of frozen worlds and pale silent lakes. I say sisters, but really, they are together due to circumstance and chance rather than anything else.
The spell is hard to break. One requires a moonlit evening,...
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A room full of goldfish
Once, there was a long and winding corridor. The corridor itself was not very interesting, it was dark and grey and a little dusty like many other corridors. What was interesting were the people that sometimes walked up and down the corridor, although they themselves did not notice because they were so busy walking up and down it.
Sometimes, out of boredom, anticipation, or sheer desperation, a...
