Tales from the Stuffed Fabulist
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The "moral" or "lesson" of each tale is left to the reader to decide.

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*New* Once a warbler couldn't get a song out of its head.
*New* Once all creatures great and small demanded anonymity before speaking to the press.
*New* Once the nation's rumor mills came very close to violating EPA guidelines.

Once a badger had a drug problem.
Once a booby and a loon were hired to host a talk-radio show.
Once a flock of buzzards became the star attraction at a felony trial.
Once a cat read the obituary on its eighth life.
Once cows went mad, certifiably mad.
Once, determined to improve lackluster ratings, a cable news and opinion show signed up two gargoyles.
Once the Hydra noticed its heads were growing smaller and disappearing one after another.
Once a killer smarm invaded an average home in an average neighborhood.
Once a pit bull refused to go for the throat of every other dog in the world.
Once a praying mantis excelled at conducting grief-and-victim interviews on TV.
Once a pushmi-pullyu appeared as a pundit on public television.
Once a bevy of little twittering birds sat on a wire.
Once water-skippers fanned out across the shallow waters of the Sunday talk shows.



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