Philosophy and Fairy Tales: Four Short Stories
Fraser Sherman
- Philosophy
- and
- Fairy
- Tales
- collects
- four
- previously
- published
- short
- stories.
- In
- "Jack
- Be
- Nimble,"
- Jack's
- mother
- tries
- to
- make
- him
- a
- proper
- fairy-tale
- hero.
- "Original
- Synergy"
- has
- a
- meeting
- planner
- struggle
- to
- pull
- off
- a
- conference
- of
- all
- the
- great
- international
- conspiracies.
- In
- "Learning
- Curve,"
- a
- teacher
- tries
- to
- show
- her
- science
- class
- why
- flies
- spontaneously
- generate
- in
- rotting
- meat.
- Finally,
- in
- "Red
- Moon
- Rising,"
- Red
- Riding
- Hood
- plots
- to
- seduce
- the
- wolf—but
- learns
- things
- about
- the
- wolf,
- herself
- and
- her
- grandmother
- she
- never imagined.
