If you got the prettiest girl in town to agree to marry you, wouldn’t you do whatever it took to meet her at the church? Even if it meant overcoming death itself?… Read More Grim Tales-John Charrington’s Wedding
Fortune comes across a traveler in a precarious position, how she responds that, is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Traveler and Fortune
In this spooky tale by E. Nesbit, a man inherits his aunt’s home, only to find a portrait of himself he’d never seen before. It’s been nailed face to face with the portrait of a beautiful woman, one he knows he’s seen before, he just doesn’t remember where.… Read More Grim Tales-The Ebony Frame
A Farmer has a fox problem, and how he responds to that, is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Farmer and the Fox
A monkey enters her ugly baby into a baby show, to the derision of everyone. How she responds to that derision, is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: Jupiter and the Monkey
Micromegas is a classic of early science fiction, written by Voltaire and originally published in 1752. It is read aloud and illustrated by Kay Mack.… Read More Full Audiobook: Micromegas, by Voltaire
The woodchopper has lost his axe in a pond, but never fear, Mercury will retrieve it for him. As always, Aesop and Ambrose have very different ideas about how that retrieval will play out.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: Mercury and the Workmen
Ouch! A man gets bitten by a dog, and Aesop and Ambrose have very different recommendations about how to heal that kind of wound.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Man Bitten by a Dog
Aesop’s fables are known the world over for their conciseness and easy to remember moral lessons. Ambrose Bierce couldn’t help but poke fun a bit at the seriousness of these fables, and produced his own version of Aesop’s famous tales that usually end a little more realistically. Read both versions here, or at Gutenberg.org (Aesop’s… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Cat and the Birds
Aesop and Ambrose go to bat over the fable The Farmer and his Sons, a fable featuring a dying man who wishes to teach his sons one final lesson. As always, the two stories tellers have different takes on what the outcome of that will be.…… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Farmer and his Sons
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