I’ve never liked stories that have a message. It always seemed to me that if the storyteller needed to finish…

Of all the stories of broken-hearted lovers, none was ever quite so tragic as the man who fell in love…

Alfredo Ramses the schoolteacher was murdered at midday in the village church shortly after the morning sermon. Whodunnit? There were…

Leonard Leben was born into a wealthy family in 1521. His father died of typhoid leaving Leonard and his mother…

A story from long ago that shows us that we are just what we eat.

For some years now I’ve been focusing on writing short stories that I can perform for an audience. Storytelling is…

Some years ago I tried to settle down for a while. I’d met a blonde German girl who was prepared…

As a child I always wanted to be a god. It came as a total surprise when I became one a few days after Christmas…

When Lionel Liskin was born everyone gathered in the delivery room cried out in excitement ‘It’s a boy!’ and were…

The lake on the other side of the hill held secrets most of the villagers didn’t want to know. But when Katya, a young Russian girl heard the birds singing there one night, she had to go and find out…

When my girlfriend and I found a whimpering little creature in a box outside her apartment we had no idea it would soon take over our lives.

Berlin is a city where you expect to see everything. With the cheapest beer available for 45 cents, there are…

Alison work up one morning and was startled to find that her hair was soaking wet. She pressed her hand…

An old man once lived on a beach alone, listening to the sea and telling stories to the children who came to visit him. So why did the adults hate him so?

Walking in the Egyptian desert, I discovered some paintings that made my head spin…

There are times in our lives when we don’t know who we are any more. We leave behind who we…

Travel stories from Albania are hard to come by which makes the Accursed Mountains by Robert Carver a priceless travelogue…

While my story of Simon Simonov is mostly a riff on narcissism, it’s obviously inspired by some of the crazier…

Reading Susan Brind Morrow’s unique writing in Wolves & Honey, I came across the strange story of the mad hatters and…

How many stories and memoirs about the Holocaust have we read or, more probably, seen on the big screen? Indeed,…

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

Once upon a time you had only to imagine a place to be sure that somewhere, somehow, it actually existed. One such place was the Wishing Well.

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

Of all the stories of broken-hearted lovers, none was ever quite so tragic as the man who fell in love…

As an angry young man I traveled to the hills of Pakistan and, to my surprise, found a way to help change the world.

“You’re nothing but a hound dog!” is what you’re telling someone when you accuse them of being a cynic. Coming…

Norton is one of my greatest heroes, a man who made his dream come true for him and everyone else just by believing in it…