Eleven Fairy Tales for the 2020s

I've been finding it harder and harder to know what to say.  Covid-19?  Anti-vaxxers?  Prime Minister Johnson?  Climate change?  Facebook?  Elon Musk?  iPhones?  Brexit?

Eventually I decided - fairy tales.  Eleven of them (of course).

I'll be posting them at regular intervals between now and Christmas.

They're all short.  As fairy tales, they're intended to be read more than once. I hope you'll want to.

(If you do find one or two you like, please share the link with friends.) (The time has come, it seems, for some self-promotion.)

OK, that's all by way of introduction, apart from a quotation to set the tone and then a picture to set the scene:

“I have been lying here since the time when I—the still living hunter Gracchus—was pursuing a chamois to its home in the Black Forest and fell. Everything took place as it should. I followed, fell down, bled to death in a ravine, was dead, and this boat was supposed to carry me to the other side.”

The Hunter Gracchus, Franz Kafka, trans. Ian Johnston

 

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