Entries Tagged - "tale"
- Shabada Labada Bish Bang Bing
A wizard came to town on a Tuesday and set up a stool in the square beside a woman selling roasted chestnuts. Her cart had belonged to her mother, and to her mother before that. The wizard sat down and said: “Shabada labada bish bang bing!” He said it the way a man announces a number; as...
- Left to PANDÆMONIUM
By the time Earl Sutter came to Mercy Junction the Ford had boiled dry twice, the rye was down below its label, and the envelope on the passenger seat had worked one corner under the floor mat as if trying to escape. The envelope had been there since March. His daughter had written EARL on it...
- A Clown Joke
Pagliaccio the clown walks into a patisserie. Behind the marble stands the owner, a man with cold hands and a folded white life, who looks up from his wiping and says we’re closed; and Pagliaccio, who has never in his life heard a closed thing, says: she had a smell. You have to start at the...
- A Monk in Brno
The peas were not, as a matter of historical correction, his first love. That distinction belonged to fuchsias, which he had grown in the window of his childhood bedroom in Hynčice and which, owing to some defect of soil or devotion, produced a single white bloom among the expected purples in the...