Creatures of Story and Song | Reaktion Books

Discover why a beaver was said to bite off its own testicles, why the baleen of a right whale was prized by medieval knights or why you should give your crush the gift of a great auk.Creatures of Story and Song pieces together evocative legends, poems and historical accounts from a thousand years of history […]

Shaggy dog story

In its original sense, a shaggy-dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending.[1]

A turkey was chatting with a bull....

‘I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree’ sighed the turkey, ‘but I haven’t got the energy.’ ‘Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my…

The cute and cursed story of Furby

On Version History: your favorite, most annoying furry friend.

Timothee Mickus

Welcome to my website. Mostly stuff related to my research, but you've unlocked the secret rabbit pic by sharing this.

Searching for Birds

An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

Animal Farm by George Orwell

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our conte...

Cory Doctorow: Stories Are a Fuggly Hack - Locus

I've mentioned before, stories are weird. I mean, really, really weird. Nothing that happens in a piece of fiction has any consequence in the real world. Romeo and Juliet did not live, did not die, and the ''tragedy'' they represent is objectively less important than the tragedy of the live yogurt culture I digested at the breakfast table this morning. My theory is that the parts of our brains that …Read More

Traps

The story of four very different women whose paths inte…

Creepy Wikipedia - Lemmy.World

#### A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust image [https://i.imgur.com/82WfIgF.png] ##### Guidelines: 1. Follow the Code of Conduct [https://legal.lemmy.world/] 2. Do NOT report posts YOU don’t consider creepy 3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only 4. Please follow the post naming convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis 5. Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails. 6. Please refrain from any offensive language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it’s in the original article’s title). ##### Mandatory: If you didn’t find an article “creepy,” you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you didn’t find it creepy image [https://i.imgur.com/WWq2agj.gif]

Matter and Desire

An Erotic Ecology

An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)

What follows is a minor modern horror story.

Trauma Junkie

[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway furrows of one of those endless tracts of half-submerged land, a main battle tank sits in a ditch, decomposing, festering. My tank. But the neighborhood seems to have forgotten, here in the shadow of the old Hospital, that shining ziggurat high above. An aspiration, once — and an obligation.