A man/ a woman recites all the stories of the world in a loud voice. When she is done, all the stories, all men and women, all time and all places will have passed through her lips.
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All The Stories

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All The Stories weblog is born as a new format for the collection All The Stories, on line since 2001. This weblog wants to add a clear time structure to the original collection (the rhythm of the story writing) and to give to the readers of All The Stories the possibility to be as well its writers and commentators.

July 15, 2008 / 2453

Bo is waiting for the bus, but he has a short time memory, so he forgets to get in the bus every time the bus arrives.

May 30, 2008 / 2452

A woman was arrested in Japan for sneaking into a man's house and living in his closet without him knowing. The house belonged to a 57-year-old man, who had become suspicious after food disappeared from his fridge. So he installed a surveillance system, which filmed the woman as she walked around in his absence.

April 25, 2008 / 2451

A cruel way of making a mankurt, a captive man that forgets everything but basic activities and thus becomes an ideal slave of jurchen masters. A fresh raw camel hide would be put as a cap on the thoroughly shaven head of a captive. The slave with his hands tied and with a large wooden stock around his neck preventing him from reaching his head would be left in desert for several days. Once the hide would start drying it would shrink and bind to the head, thus making a hoop and "squeezing" all sanity out of the man.

April 25, 2008 / 2450

A bard who fell in love with a young girl but was tied to a tree by his family to prevent him from seeing her.

January 12, 2008 / 2449

A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister.

August 25, 2007 / 2448

A young bachelor creates a Web site to raise money for women who want breast implants. The women pose for photographs on the site, and so-called benefactors pay for the right to look — and to "interact," as he puts it, via email and blog posts.

August 25, 2007 / 2447

There is no doubt that some UFOs are alien spacecraft. Moreover, the subject of flying saucers represents a "Cosmic Watergate" - a colossal government cover-up.

August 25, 2007 / 2446

Indecent exposure of undergarments, masculine or feminine, will be unlawful in a public place. It would go in the same portion of the city code that outlaws sex in public and the exposure or fondling of genitals.

August 25, 2007 / 2445

2000-Year-Old Meteors will rain down on August 31, 2007.

August 25, 2007 / 2444

A jovial 60-year-old claims not only to see dead people but also receive messages from them that she passes on to their loved ones who pay $40 per half hour for her services.

August 25, 2007 / 2443

Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.

August 25, 2007 / 2442

China's one-child policy, and a traditional preference for male heirs, has led many couples to try to ensure that their single offspring is a boy. Some pay for illegal ultrasound tests to discover the sex of a foetus, and abort it if it is female.

August 25, 2007 / 2441

Archeologists believe they may have found the remains of two children of Russia's last tsar, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Ceramic vessels found nearby appear to have contained sulphuric acid, consistent with an account by one of the Bolshevik firing squad, who said that after shooting the family they doused the bodies in acid to destroy the flesh and prevent them becoming objects of veneration.

August 24, 2007 / 2440

Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers.

August 22, 2007 / 2439

Officials apprehend two students as they waited to board a British Airways plane with more than 6kg (13lb) of cocaine concealed in laptop bags. They say they were not aware of drugs in their luggage and had been tricked into carrying them.