Tales from the Boundary

A good fable is like a doorway to another world. Or maybe to another part of yourself, where you then discover that perhaps this other world isn’t so far off after all. It’s been inside you all along, just around the corner, only by some trick of perception you never noticed it before. Scheherazade knew this; it kept her alive for a thousand and one nights, much to the amazement of all.
But fables are much more than simply fanciful entertainment, and always have been. In the days before the...