The story shelf

Follow your curiosity.

A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.

5 stories · Selected from the catalog

After a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.

On a world where people are born, grow old, and die within eight days, a boy races against his own lifetime to find a way beyond it.

71 min · Wondrous

From Paradise, the Buddha offers a single spider’s thread to a robber suffering at the bottom of Hell.

5 min · Wondrous

When a devil disguised as a missionary plants a mysterious crop in sixteenth-century Japan, one cattle dealer makes a wager to learn its name.

13 min · Playful

Impoverished in Tang-dynasty Loyang, Tu Tzuchun is offered a second fortune by an enigmatic old man—but begins to want something different.

21 min · Wondrous

5 stories