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A Fable about Point-of-View
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A Christmas Fable
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Ant Gods
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Happenstance
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A Fable about an Unexpected Evolution
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A Fable about Flattery
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A Fable about Forbearance
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A Fable about Giftedness
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A Fable about Response
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A Fable about Tenacity
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Homeboy Back & Blue
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A Fable about Administrative Slogans
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A Fable about Alien Motives
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A Fable about Procedure
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A Fable about Climate Change
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A Fable about Deities
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A Fable about Dark Matter
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A Fable about Diligence
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Guppies
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A Fable about Pool Parties
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A Fable about Un-Natural Selection
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Homeward Bound (excerpt)
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A Fable about Breaking News
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A Fable about Jibes
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A Fable about Psycho-Physics
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A Fable about Toughness
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A Fable about Surrender
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A Fable about Insight
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A Fable about Boundaries
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Cabbie
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A Fable about Definitions
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A Fable about Offspring
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A Fable about Awareness
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A Fable about Authority
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A Fable about Cause & Effect
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Another fable about Perspective
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Succulence
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Transaction
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A Fable about a Transformation
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A Fable about Off-Message
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A Fable about Symbiosis
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A Fable about Union
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Moe, the Vagabond
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Tinker Thinker
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One Never Knows
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A Fable about the Internet
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A Fable about Gods
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A Fable about Prediction
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A Fable about Craft
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A Fable about Debate
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A Fable about Smartness
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Another Fable about Research
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Boots
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A Fable about Mindset
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Circle of Shade
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A Fable about Gamesmanship
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Another Fable about Community
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A Fable about Multi-Tasking
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A Fable about Ditziness
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Ties
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A Fable about Fortune
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A Fable about a Franchise
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A Fable about a Glitch
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A Fable about Genetic Research
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A Fable about Mites and Men
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A Fable about Quests
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A Fable about Utility
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Twin Game
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The Crossing
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A Fable About The Resort Business
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A Fable About Crisis
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A Fable About Space/Time
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A Passing Talent
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Rooli, the Slave
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A Fable About A Carbon Footprint
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A Fable About Resurrection
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A Measure Of Respect
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Creature
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Meanings
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A Fable about an Extraordinary Rendition
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Old Shoes
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Trancendental Fable
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A fable about a Sales Pitch
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Postcards
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hotdog
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Familiar Eyes
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Cruisers
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A Fable about Insurance
After the committee listened to her story, the alluring Missy Prudence was selected as spokesperson for a commercial about the effectiveness of the Defense Protection Insurance Company, famous for its incomparable thirty-year guaranteed contract.
That morning of the taping, Missy Prudence began in a soft sincere voice, "My father, a most honorable and ethical man, decided on my fourteenth birthday that I should be provided some moral protection against the insidious, unholy, and unhealthy temptations of our day."
Missy paused and sipped from a glass of sparkling water while she surveyed the quiet audience of the packed room. Then, with a self-satisfied twist of her luscious lips, she continued, "Father looked around for the very best. He was that kind of father. And this I'm telling you straight. Father studied every ad offered on every medium, popular, modern, up-to-date, or not. Newspapers, AM and FM radio, public and cable television, social media with all its insignificant variety, Father checked them all for an efficient company that would keep its 'paid for' promise of protection."
Without removing her gaze from her notes on the rostrum, Missy Prudence paused again and aerated her lungs by way of a deep inhalation. Then face flushed from the charge, she said with rising stridency, "Father's choice was Defense Protection Insurance Company, and I have to admit he chose well. For here before you is a forty-four year-old virgin who, try as she might, cannot rid herself of the burden of that label; all due to Father's country-gentleman's brogue. You see, that dammed form-filling secretary misheard 'personal' as another much more shall I say 'of-the-flesh' and intimate word.
"So here we are!"
Moral: Words, well said or not, have consequence.
