3   ’’Are you coming to the race this evening?” Hercules put the question unexpectedly breaking the silence. ’’What kind of race?” asked Theano, Pythagoras and Jason almost at the same time. Hercules looked at the guys just like he would say ’Shame on you because both of you forgot it’, then he…

2   Dear Flecky, my very kind friend, The Gods didn’t give me enough strength to be able to say goodbye to You personally. I have to leave Samos but there is something more horrible: I have to part company with my very very best friend... – You, Flecky. I pray to the Gods incessantly for a day…

1      Pythagoras and Jason tried to forget with fun their tiredness of the past few days’ events. Whenever they were lost in their thoughts, Jason tried to remember Oidipus, something he knew, about him. Sometimes he was hurt by his own ignorance. It seemed he left everything in the other world…

Words: butcher's-broom; brim over with health; run one's head against a brick wall; set up one's bristles; brogue   Story:    It took a short time for Oscar to come to his senses. He looked around, to find a high place from where, as he hoped, he could see his home, too. That beautiful…

Words: instrumental;  to whitewash; tapdance; frog;  flood   Story:    Every frog gathered in the thick of the swamp to celebrate together the first anniversary of the Finding of the Keyring. The musicians were selected by the court chamberlain of the Frog King, so were the dancers, who danced…

Words: keyring; green; smooth; armada; toad   Story:    Our story began in a swamp, in that fairly cool, but starlit night, when Doug had been waiting for hours his friend Oscar to take over from him the keeping of the keyring, which was the most precious treasure of the frogs. The frogs were at…

Words: painting; field; collect; internal; brake   Story:      A green field followed the plain, then Prince Pehely saw in front of him again nothing but endless desert. But he did not give up hope! He was following the ants’ neck from sand-dune to sand-dune, sometimes he crept along…

Words: plain; pitch black; to remind; chalice; leaf of grass   Story:    As he made progress he saw more and more sand-hills in the desert. Some leaves of grass grew around them, but they were so big than the Prince could slipped into their shadow. In this land even the sky was more darker and…

Words: mosquito, duplicate, rim, to follow, brimstone   Story:      ’Cobwebby Hell!’ slipped out from that wee mosquito’s mouth whom his family called simple ’’Rim”, and which Prince Pehely found in his future wife, Princess Pille’s room, instead of his fiancée. The next day would be their…

Five words: pickaxe, mule, ribbon, tickle, prayer   Story:     The pickaxes of the grandpa stood in the corner. They had been untouched for years. The family kept all of them because of the memories. The last one he put into the shed when his granddaughter was born. Soon he died and he left…