'How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass' is a different kind of story from Carl Sandburg, it's a sad story of trauma and a girl who wants to feel loved.
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'Smells and Jingles' is the perfect story to finish our week in Japan, a bit of light-hearted fun to cleanse the palate from the sadness of 'The Sazayé and the Tai' and the violence of 'Raiko and the Shi-Ten Doji'.
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'The Sazayé and the Tai' is a sad tale of hubris from a terribly proud shellfish.
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We begin our stories from Japan this week by wrapping up the story of Raiko that we'd begun previously with the bloody battle of 'Raiko and the Shi-Ten Doji'.
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A variation on the good daughter/bad daughter tale, 'Teresina, Louisa, and the Bear' is quite a story.
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The Tuscan version of 'Bluebeard' may just be my favorite version of this classic fairytale. I do hope you agree.
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This week I have three stories from Tuscany, brought to us by Isabella M. Anderton, beginning with 'A Tuscan Snow White and the Dwarfs'.
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'The Miser' is the story that convinced me to tell these Russian tales this week. It's the story of how the rich stay rich.
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'The Bad Wife' is a Russian story that reads like a 1960's sitcom plot, and I couldn't stop laughing the first time I read it.
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In the first of three stories from Russia this week, 'The Three Copecks', we meet a young orphan who gains riches by hard work and a good wife by his piety.
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