Tales and Fables

Echoes from the Ruins and Decaying Palaces of Orchcha.

In this 1965 story, Qfwfq places a sign in the Milky Way to mark a point in space and revisit it at the end of a galactic revolution. Will he return to find the sign?

Published in 1900, Forgotten Dreams involves a chance encounter between a woman and a man who knew each other in youth.

The Porcelain Doll is an 1863 letter by Tolstoy to his wife's sister Tatiana that is often considered to be a short story and included as such in his short story collections.

Originally published in Spanish in 1956, The Night Face Up travels between a world that we recognize as ours and a world from ages ago - a world of chase, hunt and human sacrifice. Which one is real and which one a dream?

Set in Moscow, a student writes letters between Teresa and her imaginary lover Boles.

Originally published in Spanish in 1941, this story imagines a total library - with every possible combination of 25 orthographic letters, stretching endlessly in hexagonal sections. All past, present and future of everyone and everything must surely exist in some volume in some hexagon in a unique combination!

Published in 1915, this story takes place in a Kyoto in decline. Rashōmon also forms the framing story for the movie by Akira Kurosawa.

Published in 1905, this is a story about a couple who go about buying Christmas gifts for each other with the meagre savings they have.