From The Fables
Timeless Stories. Modern Life
Ancient fables, modern truths, and the strange business of living in a body that does not always cooperate. From The Fables explores chronic illness, aging, grief, resilience, and ordinary life through stories that have been arguing with us for centuries.
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The Caged Series: The Fox Needed the Cage
Before the Bars The lion was not born in the cage. That matters. Before the bars, there was movement, choice, distance, the ability to leave, the ability to refuse, and the ability to make another creature think very carefully before...
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The Cage Series: A Beautiful Cage is Still A Cage
There are cages made of iron. And then there are cages with comfortable chairs. Those are harder to recognize. Aesop tells of a king with one beloved son, a young man fond of martial exercises and presumably quite capable of finding trouble...
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My Body Has Revised the Terms and Conditions
There was once a donkey who carried bags of salt for a merchant. Every day, the merchant loaded the salt across his back, and every day the donkey carried it along the same road and through the same stream. One...
Read MoreWhy Fables?
Because human beings have been making the same mistakes for thousands of years. The animals change, the scenery changes, and the details of daily life change, but pride, grief, exhaustion, stubbornness, hope, fear, and the need to be understood remain remarkably familiar. From The Fables takes old stories and asks what they still have to say about modern life.
The Woman Behind the Stories
I’m Lucy, the writer behind From The Fables. I came to these old stories through a life shaped by chronic illness, grief, reinvention, and the strange persistence of hope. What began as a way of making sense of difficult days became a place to gather the stories that still seem to know us—sometimes better than we know ourselves.
Meet The StorytellerKeep Reading The Old Stories
Some stories entertain us. Others wait patiently until we are finally ready to understand them. Explore the latest fables, browse the collections, or simply stay awhile.