"The old street lamp" is a beautiful tale about leaving behind a whole life (hopefully) well lived. It can be interpreted in various ways: it could be about retirement, death, our place in our family. A warm and magical tale you can read here: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-tale-day-old-street-lamp.html?m=1
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“The Two Brothers“ is a little tale to honour two important Danish personalities, Anders Sandoe Oersted and Hans Christian Oersted, who were brothers.
But I also see in this tale that there is more than one path to find the so-called “truth“ of the world. One can see the truth in many different ways. Some, like these two men, even devote their lives to it.
You can read the full tale here: https://shorturl.at/nopT3
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“The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper“ is a lovely little tale about forbidden love between two porcelain dolls, with a lot of sentiment, humour, and charming characters.
If you'd like to be charmed and amused, I invite you to read the full tale: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-tale-day-shepherdess-and-chimney.htm...
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“The Wicked Prince“ reminds us that even greed has its limits and that, sometimes, the best weapons are the simplest ones. However, this tale can also be interpreted as a warning against colonialism and capitalism, since our world is so firmly built upon greed. Perhaps we should take care not to end up like the Prince of the story...
Read the tale and the full post: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-tale-day-wicked-prince.html
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A proverb akin to our “stone soup“, “Soup on a Sausage-peg“ is a tale about making do with what we've got, and about the different ways to go about doing the same thing. After all, life is a big soup and it's all open to interpretation. Just make sure yours tastes good to you.
Does your culture have an equivalent tale? I'd love to hear it!
Read the full tale: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-tale-day-soup-on-sausage-peg.html
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“The Red Shoes“ is a tale that tries to warn you about vanity and reminds you that duty should always come first. However, I dislike it when we tell the poor, or indeed anyone, that they should be proud of their hardship and not “distracted“ by beauty, money, or fun. I mean, the girl was just happy she had nice shoes...
Read the tale and let me know what you think: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-tale-day-red-shoes.html
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Ugh. Hated it. The smut scenes aren‘t even worth it. Just go read something on AO3. I‘m glad I got this as a freebie because there is no way I‘d forgive myself for wasting money on this… I told my husband I don‘t think the author has ever actually had sex or at least not fulfilling sex. 😅 Red flags everywhere. I literally got the heebie-jeebies from the cringe. 😖 I hope the super powerful AI the MMC created destroys them all. 🤣
“A picture from the fortress wall“ is a very short tale, just a little tiny morsel of a thing, about a prisoner who gets a glimpse of the beauty of the outside world and his heart is slightly changed by that moment. It's hard for me to say what this tale is about, but I have some theories.
What about you? What does this tale mean to you?
Full Post: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-tale-day-picture-from-fortress-wall....
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“The Pigs“ is a very simple, amusing little tale about appreciating the beauty of what's right in front of us instead of dwelling in the past. It's about the changing of the seasons, not just in terms of weather, but the seasons of life. How things change and how you can choose to focus on the negative or choose to see the beauty around you instead.
Full post: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-tale-day-pigs.html
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1. I grew up on and love the Grimm's Fairy Tales and Aesop's Fairy Tales
2. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
3. I can't think of a 3rd that I've read, but I'm really looking forward to reading Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology edited by Ellen Datlow
**Edited to add a novella I just remembered; funny because I didn't read it that long ago and I really enjoyed it: The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet
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