SELECTED STORIES FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION

            In a far distant time and place, on the fifth story of a great palace, near the wondrous window of a seemingly endless series of stately glass apertures, there resided a fish and a…

            Once upon a time, a special baby hippo was born, who almost immediately had to fight a territorial toddler much larger than itself, whose fierceness had finished off many a newborn before. Despite being…

            During a particularly unfruitful day, of a particularly unfruitful month, of a particularly unfruitful year, a frustrated toad hopped hopelessly around in search of grub. Its belly was empty, its body, dry, its legs, tired,…

The Hot Air Balloon             Shielded from the Sun by a straw hat and a tree, a man on the easternmost point of the equator, woke up from his slumber and entered a hot air balloon.…

             In a dark forest, a wiry weasel walked willfully and warily along, when without warning, a common raven croaked at it from the branches above.             “Toc toc, watch…

            Deep in an underground base, where unseen experiments take place, there was a kitten and a lion placed together in a room, both separated by a thick sheet of transparent glass. Frozen in place, the…