Once upon a time, there was a dragon that lost its mind. It thought that it was a sheep. Every time it saw a wolf, it would scream and run away. It would try and join flocks of sheep for protection. And it always ate grass.

The sheep did not like the dragon, so they would always run away from it. Until, one day, the dragon said, “Baaaaaaaaa”, and put on a big, fluffy sweater so that it looked like a sheep. Although they were definitely confused, the dragon did look like big sheep, so they stopped running away.

The dragon had to stretch the sweater a lot to fit in it, though. Before long, the sweater ripped. When sheep saw that it was actually a dragon, some of them tried to throw it out of the flock. Some other sheep realized that the dragon was being very nice to them and was not trying to eat them, so they wanted the dragon to stay.

At that moment, a hunter entered the field holding a rifle looking to hunt some sheep. Seeing him, the dragon ran forward and blew fire at the hunter. The hunter shot back, injuring the dragon. The dragon tried to fly away, but his wing was damaged. So instead, he charged the hunter and blew more fire. Terrified, the hunter ran back into the forrest next to the field.

A few days later, the hunter came back with his son. The dragon was so mad about the hunter’s return that he threw a fireball at them. The hunter pushed his son out of the way, but was hit by the fireball and perished.

The hunter’s son was angry that his father died, and decided to kill the dragon as revenge. He set a trap for the sheep, and caught some of them. The dragon decided to go rescue them, because he thought of them as brothers. So he destroyed the house where the son was holding the sheep, picked up the sheep, and flew back to the field.

The hunter’s son used that as an opportunity to shoot the dragon. As the dragon escaped, it hit the man with his claw, and the man was hurt so badly he decided to run far away and never come back. Then, the dragon flew back to the field, and put the stolen sheep back where they belonged.

The dragon was hurt very badly by the hunter’s son, however. As the days passed, the dragon fell sick, and it became clear that it would not survive. Seeing how much the dragon had done for them, the sheep all agreed he was one of them, even if he was a dragon. If the dragon had not saved them, the hunter might have eaten them all. Smiling, the dragon passed away happily, finally being part of the herd.

If you ever visit that field, the sheep still live there today. They put up a rock where the dragon died, to remember the dragon. And if you look carefully on misty days, you’ll see the sheep dancing around and playing with something swirling in the mist. Some say it is the dragon’s spirit.

Deep in the jungle there was a very stinky flower. It was so stinky that none of the other flowers wanted to go near it. So, the flower was very sad. However, there was one type of animal which loved the flower: insects. The flower became friends with one of the insects. When the flower told the insect that it was lonely and wanted more friends, the insect decided to help.

First, he gathered up more insects. Then, he introduced them to the flower. Now the flower had lots of friends. They would buzz, sing, and smell bad all day long. The insects would pollinate the stinky flower, and soon, there were more stinky flowers. It became so stinky that all the other flowers ran away to another jungle.

The stinky flower was so popular with the insects that it spread not just in the jungle, but everywhere. Soon, stinky flowers were the main flower in the world. A few hundred million years later, some monkeys evolved into humans. They grew up surrounded by the stinky flowers. So, they thought the stinky flowers smelled good. So did all the other animals which grew up surrounded by stinky flowers. So, all the flowers that you think of as smelling good today used to be thought of as very stinky. And now, only a few of the good smelling flowers is left, like the Titan Arum. And we think of them as the stinkiest flowers in the world.

Once upon a time, there was a man named Bob playing catch with his dog named Bob. The ball was also named Bob. This is because he loved his name so much, Bob called everything Bob. One day he went to his friend’s house, and his friend opened the door.

Bob said, “Hi Bob!” even though his friend’s name was not Bob. It was Steven.

Steven sighed, “Hi Bob.” Because Bob called everyone and everything bob, some people got used to it. His dog, for example, loved the name. Steven, however, was not one of those people.

Steven thought that calling everything “Bob” made things too confusing and complicated. What if Bob got another dog? Then when he called for one of them, both of them would come. And when he put out their bowls, the bowls would have the same name on them. How would the dogs know which bowl is theirs?

Steven let Bob inside the house and pointed to the living room. Football was playing on the TV.

“We saved a bob for you on the bob — I mean a spot for you on the sofa,” Steven told Bob. All this Bob stuff was so discombobulating. (That means confusing. Bob liked that word, because it had ‘bob’ in it.)

Bob sat on the sofa. He was not a big fan of football, so he fell asleep during the game. His head bobbed up and down in his sleep.

When bob woke up, he saw a Dragon where the TV used to be. The Dragon spoke to him, “I am the pizza dragon. Your friends have brought me here to stop you from saying Bob so much. If you say Bob three times, I will have to eat you. If you promise to never say Bob again, I will give you Pizza.”

Bob could not believe that his friends were doing this! In his anger, he said, “How could you do this! I am Bob! Bob is my favorite thing in the world! –”

But before he could say anything else, Steven put his hand over Bob’s mouth.

“Mnughjedgfby,” Bob said.

“You already said Bob twice, if you say it one more time, the Dragon will eat you,” said Steven.

Although Bob was really mad at his friends, the Dragon looked very hungry, so he decided not to say Bob any more. He did not promise to never say it again, though. In a huff, he left Steven’s house.

He got into his car to drive back home. On his dash there were some bobble heads. He wanted to say “Bob!” but he didn’t. Before starting the car, he reached into his pocket and got a pack of gum. It was Bobble gum. He wanted to say “Bob!” but he didn’t. When he got home, he saw his dog. He wanted to yell “Bob! I’m home!” but he didn’t.

At first, Bob was very upset. He didn’t get to say Bob at all. How could he live without his favorite thing? But then a few days passed. He realized that Bob wasn’t his favorite thing. His car was his favorite. His gum was his favorite. And most of all, his dog was his favorite. It didn’t matter what he called them.

Finally, Bob decided to run back to Steven’s house. He promised to the Dragon and to all of his friends, that he would never say Bob again. Then bob felt someone shaking his shoulder.

“Bob, Bob, wake up.”

Bob blinked and looked around. He said, “Hey Steven.”

“You were asleep on the sofa, and we didn’t want to bother you. But it’s lunch time now, so do you want a slice of Pizza?”

“Yes, I do want a slice of Pizza,” Bob said. Steven stepped back in surprise, this was the first time he called it “pizza” and not “Bob.”

“I’m hungry, Steven, ” said Bob, “let’s eat.”

And so, they did. And Bob called all his friends and all his belongings by their real names. In fact, he never said Bob again, except when he got home and played with his dog, Bob.

Once upon a time, there was a dragon with a lot of gold. He also worried a lot about protecting that gold. In fact, he worried so much that he couldn’t breathe fire. He could only fart fire. He then became even more worried by his new condition, so he went to see a doctor.

“Eat tiramisu,” said the doctor, “it will make your tummy colder.”

So, the dragon ate some tiramisu, but it didn’t help. He still farted fire. So, the doctor told him to go to a witch.

“Drink this potion,” said the witch, “it will calm your belly.”

The dragon drank the potion, but it didn’t work. So, the witch told him to visit a construction worker. When he arrived at the construction site, the worker filled the dragon’s butt with concrete.

“That will stop your farting,” the construction worker said!

But it didn’t work. The dragon let out such a powerful fart that the concrete burst! Now the dragon was farting not just fire, but water from the potion and rocks from the concrete too. The construction worker was going to tell him someone else to visit, but at that point the dragon had enough. He was so upset and so tired that he ate the construction worker, the witch, and the doctor.

After that, he went to sleep with a full belly and all his stress was gone. When he woke up, he felt better, and he could breathe fire again.

Once upon a time, there was a clever fox and two squires. (Squires are kids who are training to be knights.) The squires were guarding a chicken that the fox wanted to eat. The knight who was teaching them had told them to guard the chicken at all costs because it could tell the future.

When the fox got closer to the chicken, the chicken said, “I will get eaten by a fox today.” This scared the squires. So, they first put the chicken’s back to a farmhouse wall, that way the fox couldn’t sneak behind the chicken and eat it. Then, they put spikes in front of the chicken. Big, pointy spikes. For added protection, they put themselves in front of the spikes, to make sure the fox couldn’t get close.

Still, the squires didn’t feel safe. What if the fox was magic like the chicken and could avoid their traps? What if it leapt over them and the spikes? What if it was so hungry that it just charged through anyways and ate the chicken? They needed to send a message that the fox would understand.

One of the squires remembered learning a little about animals. Some animals pee all over the place they live. This is called “marking their territory.” They do it to warn other animals not to come there. So, the squires decided to pee everywhere around the chicken to mark their territory.

This isn’t normal behavior for squires. Normally, when people try to mark their territory, they use banners and flags. “Clearly, these are some very weird squires,” thought the fox, so it decided not to mess with them.

When the Knight came back, he sniffed the air and asked, “What’s that smell?”

The squires said, “Uh oh.”

When the knight learned what had happened, he decided the chicken was a bad influence on his squires, so he threw it into the woods. There, the chicken was eaten by the fox — just as it had predicted.

In a garden in the spring, there was a big orange carrot. It was very big. The farmer, an old man, was very proud of that carrot.

One day, a rabbit came and ate the carrot. When the man saw that his carrot was gone, he was beside himself with worry. But, he did not give up. He planted another carrot and put up a fence. The carrot grew again, but this time bigger and oranger. So, when the rabbit passed by the farmer’s house again he left even fuller.

The rabbit dug under the fence. Then, he opened up his mouth so wide that he gobbled the carrot up in one bite. He was so busy chewing on it that he dropped the map he needed to get back home. Then, he left and wandered into the woods.

The farmer, seeing the carrot gone, planted yet another. While digging in the dirt, he found the map the rabbit dropped. He followed the map towards the rabbit’s house. Meanwhile, the rabbit was lost. Without the map he did not know the way back home.

On the way to the rabbit’s house, the farmer saw the rabbit. He realized the rabbit had been eating his carrots! So, he dashed towards it and put it in a cage.

The man then headed back to the garden. On the way there, the rabbit apologized profusely. He did not want the man to eat him. He cried and cried and told the farmer how good the carrots were. The farmer told the rabbit how much he liked carrots too. Slowly, the rabbit stopped crying, and the two had a conversation about how wonderful carrots are.

From that discussion, the two realized they had a lot in common — at the very least, they both loved carrots. So, the farmer decided to let the rabbit go and plant another carrot in the ground. This time, however, the rabbit came by to water the carrot every day. When the carrot got properly big (and it was very big) the farmer and the rabbit both ate it together.

Long ago, there were two brothers, Yash and Krish. Yash was clean-shaven. Krish had a very big and very prickly beard. His beard was so pointy that Yash screamed and ran away when he got pricked with it. Because he wanted his brother back more than anything else in the world, Krish shaved his beard.

The problem is, Yash was a really fast runner. After getting pricked, he ran far, far away, and Krish could not find him. Eventually, the two brothers met again. But because he had been gone for so long, Yash now had a beard. He pricked Krish with it, and Krish ran away. After a few days, Krish came back with a beard and got his revenge. The brothers kept pricking each other like this for a long time.

The cycle did not stop until their dad came. He had the biggest, prickliest beard in the world! The brothers got prickled by it so badly that they decided to team up and combined beards. Then, they did a battle of the beards against their dad — and won.

Unfortunately, everybody’s beards got so tangled that they all had to shave their beards. That is why they are all clean-shaven today. It’s better this way.