Entries Tagged - "tale"

• Jul 22 2026Left 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...

• Jun 20 2026A 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...

• Mar 04 2026A 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...