The Palace of Stories

Three interwoven tales...

A young girl wanders down a country path tormented by a decision she thinks she has to make...

A country dweller travels many miles to a distant marketplace hoping to find something to sell there along the way...

A chamberlain is sent off to find a most unusual item for the king...
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Three interwoven tales...

A young boy, miserable after a day of being picked-on at school, discovers the great power of his own words...

A farmer, devastated by his failing crops, makes a desperate decision that leads him to a very insightful "little friend"...

The queen becomes increasingly distrustful of her friends, believing they only spend time with her because of her power and influence...
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Three interwoven tales...

A young man, disappointed with his looks, believes lifting weights will give him the power he is seeking...

A mysterious pot has a quite unusual effect on a man who believes he has great power because of his wealth...

A king, pleased to exercise his power over his kingdom, comes across a creature over whom he is completely powerless...
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"I have to ride you!" said the girl to the horse. "Mistress, you may ride me if you wish," replied the horse, "but when you get off my back, you will no longer be a girl, you will have become a woman! Are you sure you still want to ride me?"
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Two interwoven stories...

A young man, who has spent his life taming animals, finds himself bored with even tigers. In desperation he seeks out a challenge that will keep him engaged...

A girl, whose friends all seem to have lovely grandmothers, adopts an old woman who is so old and decrepid that she hardly notices the girl. But things change when the girl one day starts pouring out her heart to the old woman...
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Three interwoven tales...

The Driver of the school bus finds to his horror that the brakes of his bus no longer work, just as the bus begins to descend a steep hill...

The sailors of a ship take to praying in the face of a storm that will surely shipwreck them...

A mother, clutching her baby, confronts a huge wolf running amok in the city.
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Three interwoven tales...

In the bustling, edgy fairground, the girl wanders away from her friends without realising the trouble she is getting herself into...

A man, who made his living from salvaging other people's rubbish, finds his sources mysteriously drying up...

Seeking more abundant pastures, the farmer finds that the cost of resettling is much higher than she had bargained for...
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Three interwoven tales...

The driver of the school bus finds that his brakes no longer work, just as the bus begins to descend a steep hill....

The sailors of a ship take to praying in the face of a storm that surely shipwreck them....

A mother, clutching her baby, faces down fiercesome wolf, running wild in the city.
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Three interwoven tales...

A man discovers a strange gold-leafed invitation in his waste bin, with an even stranger inscription...

A traveling circus, having lost their ringmaster,descends into squabbling over where to travel next...

A man, whose occupation is digging holes, gets commissioned to do a job that becomes seemingly impossible...
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Three interwoven tales...

A man, rummaging through his wastebasket, finds a mysterious gold-edged invitation...

A doctor, who for years had taken great pride in his carefully manicured beard, shaves it off to find something totally unexpected beneath....

A King, tiring of his wife's insatiable appetite for novelty, leaves home and lives in the forest, where he finds a deeper understanding of change...
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Three interwoven tales...

A distraught man, who has just lost all of his worldly possessions, gets approached by a mysterious "shimmering" young woman...

The youngest of three princesses, after watching her sisters married off, decides to take some extreme measures to fend off "growing up"...

A carpenter, renowned for the crafting of chairs, gets visited by a wealthy man proffering a quite unusual business proposition...
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Three interwoven tales....

A man, unable to make sense of the map he is holding, begins to weep in the middle of the market...

A rich man builds a most unusual ship which he hopes will take him beyond the edge of the known world...

A young girl ventures beyond the safety of her parents garden, with life-shattering consequences...
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Three interwoven tales...

A little girl, fascinated with science, pesters her parents to buy her a very large microscope...

A boy finds himself possessed by the feeling that he must find two sticks that look exactly alike...

A king and queen, constantly at odds with each other, finally discover something that they can both agree on...
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Three interwoven tales...

A wealthy gentleman finds his grouse-shooting interrupted by a storytelling mouse...

An old woman, struggling to persuade her worn-out horse to market, decides to motivate him in an unusual way...

A King and Queen decide to live with as much unpredictability as possible, with hilarious consequences...
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