The Stuffed Fabulist on Air

Once a pair of wood ducks grew old together.

Once a robot took its pet human for a walk in the park as usual.

Once a glutton for life dreamed of swallowing the whole world.

Once a scorpion experienced a moment of compassion.

Once a potato thought it heard a voice.

Once the Spirit and the Flesh were forced to undergo relationship counseling.

Once a trilobite had the distinct feeling it was being watched.

Once there was considerable uncertainty about the exact location of "Harm's Way."

Once great flocks of hornswoggles swept out from their swamp, and the rest is history.

Once an immense green fungus, Campaignaria greenbackae, spread across the land.

Once a hallucination sensed the good times were coming to an end.

Once topiary animals took the shears to themselves.

Once a newborn struggled with post-partum depression.

Once a radioactive isotope couldn't wait to reach the end of its first half-life.

Once a cicada emerged from seventeen years underground to find little had changed.

Once cut-out dolls took over a social networking site.

Once a rattler stayed out in the sun too long.

Once a brood of little chickies fell in love with the sound of their own voices.

Once dots chafed at all the efforts made to connect them.

Once a barnacle weighted the moral pros and cons of moving on.

Once Pinocchio was determined to ride his gift for wooden mendacity all the way to the top of the political pile.

Once drones lawyered up by the thousands.

Once a pawn tried to size up the board.

Once a chicken and an egg nearly came to blows over which should go first.

Once an immortal seriously considered calling it quits.

Once a bloodhound lost its sense of smell.

Once a mudskipper got bogged down.

Once a sardine was feeling kind of lonesome.

Once a horse leapt the fence and ran up and down the land.

Once a Big Lie considered demanding equal time.

Once a country mouse found itself the envy of a city mouse.

Once a jellyfish got caught in the riptides of the mind.

Once a corpse in a wildly popular "Bodies Exhibition" had some things to say about the crowd before it.

Once a wacko fell right off the ceiling.

Once a foxhound began to have second thoughts about chasing the fox.

Once an aardvark was set on writing a book.

Once a withered tree was having some trouble looking on the brighter side of life.

Once a film crew set out to document the march of the pundits.

Once "the great god Pan" rolled over and declared, "I'm not dead yet, folks. Not quite."

Once some beavers got together to build a dam.

Once a leech almost bled to death.

Once Hercules awoke in a sweat.

Once Charon the boatman decided to turn the money down.

Once large parts of the globe fell victim to flesh-eating bacteria.

Once a molehill came to fear it might not reach its full potential.

Once a possum came to understand how difficult it is to appear dim.

Once a gene fell victim to identity theft.

Once the Zeitgeist felt a bit confused.

Once a stone wondered whether it should say something.

Once a civet cat worried about body odor.

Once a rattler stayed out in the sun too long.