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A Fable about Attention
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A Fable about Pot-covers
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A Fable about Financial Foresight
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A Fable about Another Family
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A Fable about Gaming Protocol
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A Fable about Hotel Ditties
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A Fable about Insurance
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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 Protest
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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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A fable about Fear
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A fable about Servitude
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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 Point-of-View
Long blond hair with brunette roots. Hurried brown eyes in a tanned face that, at the moment, is frowning. The time is twelve-thirty in the afternoon, lunch hour for this busy customer at the check-out of an upscale grocery store.
The midnight black, pretty enough, cashier says, "Es deese eet?" and points to the veggies at the register.
At once irritated, the customer counters, "What you trying to say, Mami? You meaning ten? Eh! What's with the 'diez'?" Maybe her body language? Maybe her tone? An accent sneaks out.
"You Latina?" asks the cashier, as her smooth-skinned face breaks out an understanding smile. "Okay, Hermana. Malo mia," she finishes.
Sheepish, shrugging apology, the customer asserts, "TambiƩn. I thought you was a Black American bullshitting con mi acento. Sabe?"
"Aie! Blanca, comprendo! Todo el tiempo," she says as she bags the two pound yucca root, the ninety-nine cents chayote, and the fifty cents bunch of cilantro. "Tenga una boil-down agreeable!"
Moral: Tolerance trumps explanation