Fairy Tales: Old SultanA farmer had a faithful dog named Sultan, who had grown old and lost all his teeth... A short [SFW] story from Grimm's Fairy Tales.Play Count: 1558 So You Want to Be a Writer? by Charles BukowskiAs an editor and sometimes writer, I don't agree with everything in this poem. Writing *can* be quite a lot of work, and inspiration is not always on call. But I do love Bukowski and appreciate the sentiment, which can be summed up with his own epitaph: "Don't try."Play Count: 829 The Duration of LifeAnother one of Grimm's fairy tales. God meets with the animals and decides how long each shall live.Play Count: 1240 RumpelstiltskinThis is a version of "Rumpelstiltskin" recorded for /r/BedTimeStories. The text was taken from Carnegie Mellon's Universal Library, which may in turn be a version of Margaret Hunt's "Grimm's Household Tales." (Note: Rumpelstiltskin is referred to here as a "manikin," which means a small or abnormal person.)Play Count: 1384