Mythology

 In a village, long ago, there was a wonderful couple living in a small house. Everything was well; they were all loved. Until one day, the lady of the house bore a child. However, the mother died suddenly after childbirth. The husband cried for weeks. What is he to do now? He notices something strange. The baby would cry day in, day out, but would sleep peacefully at night. Alone. As if it was suckled! He decided to stay up one night to see what was going on in the middle of the night. That night, he heard something or someone opens the door to the baby's room. He walked silently to the room. Tip. Tap. Tip. Tap. In the room, he didn't believe what he saw. It was the dead mother, in the same clothes that she was buried in, kneeling over the cradle and tendering for the baby. The next day, it happened again. Day by day, he would invite more people over to witness this miracle. Until on the 10th day, the child died in its sleep. The village was never visited by the dead mother ag...

 I'm a cat. For as long as I've remembered, I've always been a cat. I've lived in this house in this village ever since I was a small kitten. There is a wife and a husband, my caring owners. I also live with a dog. I've always had good relations with the dog, however, it does make me mad sometimes that it seems like the dog always gets my owner's attention. Nonetheless, there was no bad blood between me and the dog. We lived well for a long time until recently, we weren't. I noticed that the wife and husband, my owners, grew poorer and poorer by the day! I had wondered what had happened. The dog noticed too, but he had no idea. For several weeks, we've tried our best to be supportive of our owners. However, as the days and weeks passed, it seems clear that their conditions were getting worse and worse. One day, the dog came up to me and told me about how he had noticed that the owners do not have their gold ring anymore. I never thought anything of the r...

The room was eerily silent, almost deafening. The moon offered the only source of light in an otherwise ink-dark hall. Outside, a vast fog swallowed the entire horizon, moving slowly from tree to tree. Peace. Quiet. The perfect illusion. Drip. Drip. Drip.  The sounds of the moisture of the leaves rustling crackled through the night. Something is in the fog. The sounds started off soft and low, but quickly grew louder and clearer.  It was getting closer. Then, a faint shadow appeared within the fog, growing larger and larger by the second. The fog parted, splitting evenly around the shadow. Who was this? WHAT was this? The sound of the Thing as it slowly dragged its feet in the damp grass resembled that of a wild animal, prowling for its prey, hoping to go unnoticed. It came closer and closer. The sounds of his footsteps grew louder and louder.  Then, silence. The most sinister of silences.  Rumble. Rumble. The door shook erratically. It was here. (Grendel's Arrival. ...

At his talk show one morning, Conan received word that there was a closed-invite email group going around the office that gives the staff members heads-up whenever there are food deliveries in the cafeteria room. Of course, being a popular talk show, the company receives many complementary foods from shops, such as cakes, candy, and other forms of snacks and treats for the people who work for the show. However, Conan noticed that he was NOT on the list while being the host of the show! This bothered Conan heavily. He had to get to the bottom of this. He set up a trap for his employees. He convinced his insider in the e-mail group to send an announcement to the rest of the group that there were three delicious chocolate cakes delivered. What the employees did not know was that in each corner of the cafeteria room, security cameras were set up!  Of course, as soon as the email was sent out, people came in the doors like moths to a light. Not a single face was missing; Amber from Prod...

 Underneath the ocean floors lie a wonderful array of animals, big and small. Some could swim faster than others, while some are better predators than others. There a single plankton, whose name was Sheldon, who spent most of his days floating around in the water, going with the current. Sheldon was a small lad, but he was kind to his neighbors, never wishing them any harm. Due to his kindness and luck, one day when he was sleeping, a bodiless voice in the distance reached out to him. "Sheldon, I have been watching you closely and see that you are a creature without malice. For that, I want to reward you. I shall grant you three wishes with no exceptions," the voice spoke out to him. Sheldon pondered for a long time. What does he want? Finally, he told the voice in the distance, "O bodiless voice, I wish to be a shrimp. Every day, these animals would try to hunt me down and consume me; however, I am lucky to have made it this far in my life. That luck will end one day, t...

 After hearing the description of the monster in the forest, the Warrior knew exactly what level of threat he was going up against, for he has conquered it before three years ago. The Warrior replied: "Do not worry, Yee and Zy. I will gladly vanquish this disgusting and evil foe. I've done it before and I'll do it again with ease. However, I must ask of something in return. The past couple of years in the kingdoms above have been terribly lonesome. And for that, I must request that you give me your daughter's hand in marriage." "I will happily hand over my daughter's hand in marriage for you, O Protector of the Forest," Yee happily answered the Warrior, "but only if you rid the world of the evil that's in the Forest!" And with that, with the help of the heavens, the daughter was transformed into a diamond-encrusted sword in its sheath beside the Warrior's waist. "Thank you all. With the help of your daughter, I will surely make...

Three years ago, a Warrior ventured into the depths of the Great Forest and defeated Yerdua, the notorious, smelly, shiny-headed demon that has been a plague to the region to all the inhabitants living in the small village next to it. Ever since this great feat, the Warrior was promoted to the level of a god by the divine beings that were watching closely to see who could defeat Yerdua, as that individual would be crowned with the most awesome power that could ever exist in the world. He then served as a protector of the forest, defending the villages from anything that could harm the animals and the humans going near the forest.  One day, the Warrior realizes that ever since the attack of Yerdua, followed by her ultimate destruction, humans haven stayed away from the Great Forest. This bothered the Warrior. He wondered what could be the reason for these people staying away from the Forest? He feared something was in its midst. Therefore, out of concern, the Warrior came down to pa...

 The Lion in Love Once upon a time, there was a Lion, who was became madly in love with a human woman and had proposed the question of marriage to her parents. Seeing that the King of the Beast was at their door and asking for the hand of their daughter for marriage, they didn't know how to decline. The woman's parents did not want to anger the King of the Beasts Finally, the woman's father told the Lion, "We are honored by your interest in our daughter. However, seeing that she is small and weak, we fear that your own affection for our daughter can end up hurting her. Being that is the case, would you be willing to clip you claws and remove your fangs? Surely we would reconsider." The Lion, being so madly in love, did exactly what the parents of the woman asked. He went and got his sharp claws clipped and his large fangs removed. However, when he came back to the parents of the woman, the parents merely laughed in front of his face and denied them of his proposal...