Death was uninterested in the two young men until the orange rolled under the table.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: Death and the Orange

Death intends to scare Odysseus, but forgets they are old friends.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: Death and Odysseus

I saw a man fall from a building, carving his name into a scaffolding as he fell. What a fool!… Read More Fifty-One Tales: The Workman

A man makes reservations for two at a fine restaurant, but doesn’t expect his guest until the dinner is over.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: The Guest

To write is as useless as building a raft from the pieces of a broken ship, and yet and yet.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: The Raft Builders

The wind boasts of all the ships it’s claimed to the fog, who has claimed so many more.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: Wind and Fog

Swallows and a Hen set about to see the world, and come back with very different ideas of what ‘the world’ contains.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: The Hen

Somehow the Sphinx has won the love of time. Can we convince her to tell us how she did it?… Read More Fifty-One Tales: The Sphinx at Gizeh

Pan, that venerable god, is dead and mourned, although perhaps not as well as he would have liked.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: The Death of Pan

Charon has an interesting passenger.… Read More Fifty-One Tales: Charon