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**News**

June 20th, 2005

The Goose and Springtime is now available in The Taj Mahal Review in paperback form from the Indian publisher Cyber Wit. The cost is 16$ and is 480 pages of stories and poetry. Please see their website for details. What does one do when it is almost May and Spring still hasn't come; when everyone in the forest is dying from hunger? One small goose decides that this is not the time to be selfish and travels in search of Spring. Originally appeared in The Rose and Thorn in 2004

The Pot of Stew is now on-line at The Glut. The tale of a group of men who decide to live in a Pot of Stew and the results thereof.

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Please visit: Soviet Political Jokes I have translated from the Russian. Several were the inspiration to stories collected under the title The Relics of things to come.

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Fairy Tales soon to appear

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Stories soon to appear

For a complete list of published work please click here

Here are four translated Chechen fairy tales with more to follow. As well please see Timour at FABLES.

For those interested in learning English in Odessa, Ukraine please visit this site for more information www.englishodessa.batcave.net

Visit my new blog at www.troymorash.blogspot.com about my adventures and observations in Ukraine. There are also some funny lists about Ukraine meant in jest, like "The Ten Strangest Things in Ukraine'.

Metal, Bark and Whispers Soup was nominated for The Pushcart Prize by The Rose and Thorn in 2003.

Three stories received recognition from the Index of Online Fiction

September 2002 Webmaster's Choice (3rd place), "The Farmer's Tools"

April 2002 Webmaster's Choice (4th place ), "The Old Muds"

January 2002 Readers' Choice (3rd place), "The Two Carpenters"

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Top Fairy Tales Top

Fairy tales are beautiful works of art; educating and entertaining us, reflecting both human wisdom and folly. The best tales are little road maps to a higher level of being and understanding. All these stories have this aim in mind. Enjoy!

1. The Man who loved his Cow more than his Wife

2. The Pig and the Peacock

3. The Fools and the Stairs

4. The Truth Concerning Ear Wax

5. The Man who lived in a Wheelbarrow

6. Three Dogs, Two 'Cats' and a Cat

Nursery Rhymes

Work published in Magazines

2001

Stew Pit Men / SHORT STORIES MAGAZINE / November 2001

The Two Carpenters / FABLES / Winter 2001

2002