List: Tales of the Society | Curated by Eric Wolf

Feb 29, 2024
9 stories
Tales of the SocietyEndo- or Exo-skeletons, Fur or Scales, Cold Blood or Warm!
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The Silver PheasantSavio Potenza heard a shot being fired. It was not an unfamiliar shock to his nerves; he had heard gunfire growing up in Ethiopia, had…
Jan 29, 2024
Jan 29, 2024
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The Seven-Arm OctopusMen had named him Kraken, shown him a fearful deference to his current form, since the Vikings were young in the world. It ought to have…
Aug 25, 2023
4
Aug 25, 2023
4
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The Ethiopian WolfAppropriately, his conclusion was grim; the Wolf, he said, had a talent for… making men disappear. Ettore was used to getting, at least, a…
Apr 8, 2023
2
Apr 8, 2023
2
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The Sunbeam Snake“Figured they would send someone to kill me,” sighed the man, who leveled a shotgun at him. “I just never thought… I hoped it wouldn’t be…
Sep 19, 2022
Sep 19, 2022
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The Chinook SalmonSociety says: Bye-bye to the human, hello to the new animal, but up in the place I had never expected to find myself, I was saying bye-bye…
Apr 11, 2022
3
Apr 11, 2022
3
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The Cape BuffaloYou believe that justice has been thwarted, that your efforts to bring your fugitive to custody have been in vain. I believe, Marshal, that…
Jan 4, 2022
1
Jan 4, 2022
1
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The Destroyer MothGerry McNab always maintained to his fellow criminals that no prison could ever hold him, no matter how thick its walls, or how…
Oct 1, 2021
1
Oct 1, 2021
1
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The Green Tree FrogCharlie got the crazy ones, his supervising officer knew. Why these cases went to him first, to him alone, his supervisor didn’t know…
Jun 24, 2021
4
Jun 24, 2021
4
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The Finch and the SparrowBecoming a goldfinch was just an expression, or rather, an Expression, as Josh quipped.
Mar 29, 2021
2
Mar 29, 2021
2