TalesFromTheTinderbox.com is a collection of short stories and fables.
About TalesFromTheTinderbox.com
Tales from the Tinderbox is a collection of short stories and fables, by Daniel James O'Connell, primarily based around two characters, Bastet and Tsuru. Within the collection are extended tales set within the same world which either explain larger aspects of the universe or act as supporting stories to the central theme. Bastet and Tsuru are animals and they are also people. The characters shift between forms throughout the stories and it is unsure which manifestation is their true form. It can be understood that these aspects represent phases of emotion and also phases of realization about their part within the greater story Tales from the Tinderbox is a collection of short stories and fables, by Daniel James O'Connell, primarily based around two characters, Bastet and Tsuru. Within the collection are extended tales set within the same world which either explain larger aspects of the universe or act as supporting stories to the central theme. Bastet and Tsuru are animals and they are also people. The characters shift between forms throughout the stories and it is unsure which manifestation is their true form. It can be understood that these aspects represent phases of emotion and also phases of realization about their part within the greater story.
The universe within which these stories are set is not something foreign, nor is it something similar; it is quite simply the universe within our own.
The stories you will read are written for you, to be read by you, to be loved by you and to be shared by you with anyone or everyone you might think would understand them as you do.
They are tales of majicks and spirits, of adventures and mysteries but most of all they are tales of potential and of dreams; the motion of love and of light as it passes through time along with our hearts.
Some of the words are invented, others are taken from various languages. There is a rough time line to some of the tales, others exist outside of any ‘time’ and should be taken as inner events or dreams. Aspects of the whole universe will become clearer as new tales arrive. The aim is not to understand them as a collected whole or to reach the end, it is to experience them and to see if you might find yourselves somewhere within.
The author was born in London, England. He currently lives in Venice, LA with his wife and their dog.
