title: The Brubury Tales
author:  Frank Mundo 
description: Mundo's skill is astounding and has a natural cadence. These stories are intriguing and compellingly human, and soon enough the reading becomes listening. --Sacramento Book Review<br /><br />With inspiration from many literary classics and plenty of original spin, <i>The Brubury Tales</i> is a fine collection and not one to be missed. --Midwest Book Review<br /><br /><i>The Brubury Tales</i> is a brilliant blend of writing, combining the style of Chaucer while putting a new slant on the short stories of the classical writers. --Reader Views<br /><br />A unique and powerful new book,The Brubury Tales draws upon Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and classic stories by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Dickens, to name a few. Frank Mundo takes risks with his writing, which is sensitive, thoughtful, and gritty. --LA Books Examiner<br /><br />The Brubury Tales [by Frank Mundo] is a landmark book, in what is going to be -- and already is -- an exceptional, distinguished literary career. --Carolyn See
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  ### Frank Norris
  
  
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  This story is to be about young Stayne and a girl named Cresencia Hromada, and
  it harks back to that fable of Aesop's about the two jars. You remember that
  fable of Aesop's about these jars. They were superlatively beautiful jars, and
  they were floating in a cistern. They made the discovery that so long as they
  kept apart they were safe—the moment they should come together they would
  break and fill and sink. Haec fabula docet and all the rest.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Young Stayne, when I knew him, before the time of this tale, was as fine a
  young fellow as you could find between two oceans. He was just out of Harvard,
  where he had obtained "Deturs" and very particular and especial credits. He
  had been one of the speakers in the Yale debate, had been vice president of
  the "Pudding," and had even been taken on by the "Porcellian" in h