"A Fairy Tale of Technology": An old Jewish man loses contact with his son, a singer, after a pogrom. For years he hopefully listens on the radio and finally hears him one day. The ending has a new Testament allusion to building on a rock and perhaps the prodigal's son. The son is alternatively called Yitzakh and Isaac, the transliteration of the same name in two different traditions. Clearly a very personal tale for Doblin who lost his own son in WW2, and who converted to Catholicism from nominal Judaism in his later life.

"A Little Fable": Strange little tale about a kingdom that reveres language so much that official matters aren't spoken of. Somewhat a commentary on the farcical gulf between the language of law and the vernacular.

"Traffic with the Beyond": A murder is investigated through the use of a psychic medium.

"Materialism: A Fable" The idea of materialism escapes from humankind and empties out into Nature. All life, material, and even photons become conscious and self-interested. It concludes with all aspects of Nature getting tired of the lack of harmony and everything reverts to a previous state in a sort of dharmic acceptance. This is a very concise, fabulistic retreatment of the themes in his earlier epic, Mountains Oceans Giants.