author - "N. Barry Carver"

What do Robinson Caruso and The Iron Chef have in common?

Not a thing.

Until now.

WINNER Make Your Connection CONTEST

After the tale you know and before it became famous, the truth was hidden about its ending.

Truth is here revealed... to those who seek it.

So many times we are retold the story of "how it all began."

Too many re-boots.

Too many strange tangents.

Good stories deserve good endings.

Suppose you had only the tweetspace of a moron's attention span to write out your life's meaning.

Would you try or simply refuse to play?

The birth of a child is a wonderful, scary, life-boggling event.

Here is the true story of my first... and my observations along the way.

This is a companion piece to my essay "Dad".

How many centuries will in take?

A terrible accident is a devastating blow to anyone.

But to know that you, and only you, are at fault... is more than one person can bear.

Maybe next year, maybe the year after that... things are going to become marvelous.

Perhaps a bit too marvelous.

WINNER COFFEE SHOP CHALLENGE

This is an installment in a series of fable re-writes.

The series is titled: Æesop Don't Live Here No More.

The moral of these stories are... never moral.