Sources

All the stories are in the public domain. Here are the sources I copied them from:

• The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop
• The Failure of Hope & Wandel by Ambrose Bierce
• Nyarlathotep by H.P. Lovecraft
• Christmas Presents, 1914 from Punch Magazine
• The Feast of Nemesis by Saki
• The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain
• Luck by Mark Twain

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