#Fables

A story about learned limits, and an animal that could walk away at any moment and has not tried for thirty years.

A story about ambition, and the second thing his father told him that has been quietly dropped for two thousand years.

A story about a village that had nothing to spare, and the stranger who got them all to cook dinner together.

A story about reputation, and a teacher who was accused of something he had not done and did not argue.

A story about jumping to a conclusion, and a mistake that took a moment to make and could not be taken back.

A story about envy, and a boy who walked across a valley to reach a house he had been living in the whole time.

A story about trying to satisfy everybody, and the state you end up in when every passing opinion gets acted on.

A story about greed, and a man who was offered as much as he could take and was not able to stop taking.

A story about ambition, and what happens when someone takes the trouble to describe the end of the plan out loud.

A story about method, and the awkward moment when the thing that carried you across becomes the thing you are carrying.

A story about fate, and a servant who rode all night to escape something he was riding towards.

A story about pain, and the difference between what actually happened to you and what you did to yourself about it afterwards.

A story about grief, and what a mother found when she knocked on every door in her town looking for a cure.

A story about trusting a promise that goes against a person's nature, and who is really responsible when it breaks.

A story about gossip, and the three plain tests that almost nothing you are about to repeat can survive.

A story about flattery, and what a king did to show his court exactly how small he was.

A story about the fight inside a person, and the uncomfortable question of which side you have quietly been supplying.

A story about anger, and how much of it turns out to depend on believing that somebody meant it.

A story about partial knowledge, and how an honest report of what you touched can leave you completely wrong.

A story about slow change, and why the trouble that arrives gradually is the kind we are worst at noticing.

A story about effort, and why working harder stops working when you never stop to sharpen the tool.

A story about resentment, and why the person holding onto it usually pays far more than the person who caused it.

A story about how quickly we call things good or bad, and how often the next turn of events proves us wrong.