Breakfast With Gilgamesh 7: The Nights

The Arabian Nights are a touchstone of popular storytelling, a collection of folk tales, morality parables, and romps through the medieval Asian landscape that have fascinated and compelled readers and listeners the world over for centuries. Here is one such tale, that is many tales.

FICTION: The Remembered

I remember the sensation of grass under my feet. I could run, then. My legs were firm and strong. They would carry me toward the sun at the end of each day, chasing it west to the horizon. I could feel the life in everything around me, in the trees and the rocks and theContinue reading “FICTION: The Remembered”

FICTION: The Moa

Each night Molly would watch the cornfield that surrounded the old house she lived in and pray for rain. She loved the rain, the way it whispered to her under the billowing of the wind, the way it betrayed its peaceful nature with thunder and lightning. She would sit in her room, surrounded by theContinue reading “FICTION: The Moa”