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Joyce Slater
Dec 31, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: The Lion and the Boar
On a summer day when a general thirst, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They fiercely disputed which...
Joyce Slater
Nov 30, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: Painted Gold
There once was a miser who sold all his possessions and bought a large piece of gold. He buried the treasure in the earth near a large...
Joyce Slater
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: An Excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
The migrant workers scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they...
Joyce Slater
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Story of the Month: The Owl & the Grasshopper
The Owl always takes her sleep during the day. Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly...
Joyce Slater
Jul 31, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: Aesop's The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
A very old lion lay ill in his cave. All of the animals came to pay their respects to their king except the fox. The wolf, sensing an...
Joyce Slater
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: The Toler'ble Muddy Day
One year, kind of like this year, was the rainiest anyone had ever seen. All the cricks flooded, liked to drowned us all and the...
Joyce Slater
May 31, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: Stone Broth
One very stormy day, a Poor Man came to a rich man's house to beg. "Away with you!" said the servants. "Do not come here troubling us."...
Joyce Slater
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Story of the Month: Alive or Dead, an Aesop Fable
A mischievous young man wanted to mock a wise elder by tricking him. The young man took a small sparrow in his hand and hid it behind his...
Joyce Slater
Mar 31, 20223 min read
Story of the Month: The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together. For a long time all went well; they...
Joyce Slater
Feb 28, 20222 min read
Story of the Month: He Never Lied
A folktale from Africa Once upon a time there lived a wise man by the name of Mamad. He never lied. All the people in the land, even the...
Perin Stifel
Jan 31, 20222 min read
Story of the Month: The Two Roosters
By Chuck Larkin as remembered and told by Perrin Stifel at the R.A.P.S. Chicken Festival January 13, 2022. Chuck always wanted stories to...
Joyce Slater
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Story of the Month: The Tale of Two Pluckers
A middle-aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well...
Joyce Slater
Nov 30, 20211 min read
Story of the Month: The Worry Bundles
adapted from an old Jewish Folktale with permission from Annette Harrison, Master Storyteller A woodcutter thought he had all the worries...
Joyce Slater
Oct 31, 20212 min read
Story of the Month: Mercury and the Woodman
A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe, glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water....
Allen DeBay
Oct 31, 20212 min read
MO-TELL Member of the Month: Allen DeBay
I live in Osborne Kansas. I work at Osborne Industries building and repairing electronics for pigs, and other animals. The electronics...
Joyce Slater
Sep 30, 20211 min read
Story of the Month: Dining Out
The well-dressed gentleman sat at the table by the windows. He had just finished a wonderful six-course meal. Accompanied by the finest...
Joyce Slater
Aug 31, 20212 min read
Story of the Month: The Two Frogs
Once there were two Frogs who were dear friends. One lived in a deep pond in the woods, where the trees hung over the water, and where no...
Susan Bravo
Jul 31, 20211 min read
Story of the Month: A Peruvian Legend
The Inca did not have horses or cows. Llamas were the important animal high in the Andes mountains. Llamas provided the Inca with wool,...
Joyce Slater
Jun 30, 20211 min read
Story of the Month: Who is the Greatest?
A long time ago a king wanted to find and honor the greatest person among his people. Someone with wealth was brought before him. A...
Joyce Slater
May 31, 20211 min read
Story of the Month: Mark Twain and the Ouija Board
Back in 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, some women gathered to use a Ouija board to talk to some of their crossed over relatives. When they...