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Fantastic Fables

55 stories by Ambrose Bierce

A Call to Quit A Fatal Disorder A Forfeited Right A Hasty Settlement A Protagonist of Silver A Smiling Idol A Transposition A Treaty of Peace A Valuable Suggestion AESOPUS EMENDATUS An Invitation At Heaven’s Gate Fortune and the Fabulist OLD SAWS WITH NEW TEETH Physicians Two Revenge Six and One The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky The Australian Grasshopper The Broom of the Temple The Bumbo of Jiam The Catted Anarchist The City of Political Distinction The Critics The Fabulist and the Animals The Faithful Cashier The Fogy and the Sheik The Good Government The Humble Peasant The Ingenious Blackmailer The Ingenious Patriot The Judge and the Plaintiff The Lassoed Bear The Legislator and the Citizen The Lion and the Rattlesnake The Man and the Wart The Mine Owner and the Jackass The Mirror The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Mourning Brothers The Nightside of Character The Noser and the Note The Party Manager and the Gentleman The Party Over There The Poet and the Editor The Poetess of Reform The Poet’s Doom The Politicians The Prerogative of Might The Rainmaker The Return of the Representative The Statesman and the Horse The Unchanged Diplomatist The Various Delegation Uncalculating Zeal