Tales and Fables

Shashwat

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Listen to a new story every day, narrated by your host, Shashwat.

10/16/2025

Aesthetics of Decay or What Ruins Tell Us - Shashwat

Echoes from the Ruins and Decaying Palaces of Orchcha.

10 min
12/19/2023

A Sign in Space - Italo Calvino

In this 1965 story, Qfwfq places a sign in the Milky Way to mark a point in space and revisit it at the end of a galactic revolution. Will he return to find the sign?

21 min
12/18/2023

Forgotten Dreams - Stefan Zweig

Published in 1900, Forgotten Dreams involves a chance encounter between a woman and a man who knew each other in youth.

15 min
12/17/2023

The Porcelain Doll - Leo Tolstoy

The Porcelain Doll is an 1863 letter by Tolstoy to his wife's sister Tatiana that is often considered to be a short story and included as such in his short story collections.

11 min
12/16/2023

The Night Face Up - Julio Cortazar

Originally published in Spanish in 1956, The Night Face Up travels between a world that we recognize as ours and a world from ages ago - a world of chase, hunt and human sacrifice. Which one is real and which one a dream?

21 min
12/15/2023

Her Lover - Maxim Gorky

Set in Moscow, a student writes letters between Teresa and her imaginary lover Boles.

13 min
12/14/2023

The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges

Originally published in Spanish in 1941, this story imagines a total library - with every possible combination of 25 orthographic letters, stretching endlessly in hexagonal sections. All past, present and future of everyone and everything must surely exist in some volume in some hexagon in a unique combination!

21 min
12/12/2023

Rashōmon - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Published in 1915, this story takes place in a Kyoto in decline. Rashōmon also forms the framing story for the movie by Akira Kurosawa.

15 min

Listen to a new story every day, narrated by your host, Shashwat.

Creator

Shashwat
Years Active

2023 - 2025
Episodes

14
Rating

Clean
Copyright

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Tales and Fables