Satire

Stories tagged Satire:

• The Story of Schlauraffen Land Jul 26, 2025

  

  Have you ever heard tell of the wondrous land called Schlauraffen Land? It is a most extraordinary place, quite different from anywhere else in the world, where everything happens in the most peculiar and delightful way imaginable.

  In Schlauraffen Land, you need never worry about being hungry, for the very air is filled with the most delicious foods. Roasted chickens fly about with golden forks already stuck in their sides, calling out, “Come and eat me! Come and eat me!” The geese waddle around already cooked to perfection, with little signs hanging from their necks that read, “I am the finest goose in all the land!”

• The Twelve Idle Servants Jul 26, 2025

  

  Once upon a time, there lived a wealthy master who employed twelve servants to manage his grand household. However, these were no ordinary servants – they were the laziest individuals ever to walk the earth, each one more idle than the last.

  The first servant was so lazy that when he was sent to fetch hay, he would lie down in the field and declare, “The hay is too far away. I’ll wait for it to come to me.” When his master asked why he returned empty-handed, he would say, “Master, the hay was too wet from the morning dew. I didn’t want to get my clothes dirty.”

• The Tale of Cockaigne Jul 24, 2025

  

  Far beyond the mountains, across seven seas and through forests that no map has ever charted, there lies a wondrous land called Cockaigne. It is a place spoken of in whispers by travelers and dreamers, where every heart’s desire is fulfilled and every belly is always full.

• Lean Lisa Jul 22, 2025

  

  In a small village, there once lived a woman called Lean Lisa, and never was anyone more aptly named. She was so thin that she could have hidden behind a broomstick, and so lazy that she made sloths look industrious. Lisa was married to a man called Lanky Laurence, who was every bit as idle as his wife, and together they formed the most spectacularly lazy couple the world has ever known.