Legend tells of the pleasure garden of Queen Nazanin-Zahra, which contained every flower in the known world. The punishment for anyone other than the queen looking on it was to have one’s eyes put out. One of the queen’s blinded, banished handmaidens was able to recreate from memory a small glimpse of it in this tapestry.

If you’ve already gazed into the eyes of this infernal portrait of the Dread Dutchess, we’re afraid it’s too late for you. Kindly warn the patrons at the next table.

Maxwell Lichten lost an unfortunate bet regarding the greater of a pound of feathers—measured in avoirdupois ounces—and a pound of gold—measured in troy ounces. He took small comfort resting his head that night on a pillow full of the finest feathers a pound of gold could buy.

Prince Ashra Ahil once met a girl of such beauty and grace, he commissioned 100 statues to be created and placed in each town in his kingdom in her honor. He was promised to the daughter of another kingdom, however, and to avoid insult, his father had them all destroyed. All save one, which the prince managed to hide aboard a ship sailing to a faraway land.

The last thing the Fremont Flashes Roller Derby Sisterhood did before the end of their last summer in town was to strap on these skates and race down all 1298 feet of the wooden flume that used to bring logs down from the old Harley lumbermill. Two days after the girls left, a hundred-year storm carried a flood down that same flume and wiped out what was left of downtown.

She walked with purpose and confidence, and it was an impressive rack of antlers, but Judith Massoquat's play to establish dominance over the small herd of deer that had taken up residence in her backyard ultimately failed, as all the rhinestones frankly made it difficult for the deer to take her seriously.

Satoshi Murikame of Matsuyama, Japan carves incredibly detailed miniature idylls of pagodas in nature; a feat made even more remarkable by the fact that he was born blind, and has never seen a pagoda in his life.

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As the old man and woman watched the sun sinking behind the mountains, they knew their life together was coming to a close. The god Yue Lao was so touched by their lifelong devotion, he transformed them into a pair of magical cranes so they could spend eternity together. Eternity. It’s a long time. Maybe they were ready to meet other people in the afterlife. Just saying, he could have asked.

They say elephants never forget. Whisper your secret to this one and it will share with you someone else's.