Entries Tagged - "tale"

• 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...