fables

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Interlaced with the prosaic reflections are a series of fables involving inhabitants from the present and past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

"The great thing about these movies is that they are like fables," Byron Howard, one of the two directors, told AFP in Los Angeles.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

Yet the bench survives, in the spirit of Gothic fables and improbable Hollywood endings everywhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

Mom was also a writer and was always typing away on novels, short stories, plays, poetry, fables, and children’s books, which she illustrated herself.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls