One Thousand and One-Second Stories

( Japanese - Issen Ichibyō Monogatari ( 一千一秒物語 ) - 1923)

collection by Inagaki Taruho

translated by Tricia Vita

Published: Sun & Moon Press - trade paperback - 1998
ISBN: 1557133611 - 9781557133618


contents
Introduction ( One Thousand and One-Second Stories ) - essay by Tricia Vita
A Den of Rabbits
Pietov
The Palace of the Dogs
The Night That Burst Into Flames
A Dose of Speed
Crying in Their Beer
On Shooting a Star
One Disappearance After Another
The Mansion Where Laughter Is Prohibited
On Being Attacked by a Beetle
One Night at a Hotel
An Object Found on a Hill
The Star Hospital
Before Sunrise
A Star Turns Into a Two-Sen Copper Coin
The Theater of Comets Presents...
Café Starry Night
Jack-in-the-Box Cigarettes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Book Becomes Enraged
Guest and Host
The Secret of Lemonade
An Unpremeditated Abduction
On Being Pursued
Moonshine
Why Did He Become a Smoker?
Was That Really a Comet Inside the Beer Bottle?
A Star and Some Scoundrels
On the Moon Turning into a Triangle
Swallowing Mr. Moon
How Three Saturns Were Formed
The Origin of a Red Pencil
"Cheers!" on a Moonlight Night
The Black Box
Un Roc Sur le Pavement
How I Sobered Up
Invités de la Lune
Someone Who Returned from New York
A Midnight Caller
Someone Who Looked a Lot Like Me
Le Cérémonie du Mariage
A Letter from the Milky Way
A Holdup
An Incident on a Street Corner
Someone Who Spoke As If He Had Seen It Himself
A Friend Trades Places with Mr. Moon
The Black Comet Club
Avant Ma Promenade
The Bat House
On Shooting Down a Black Cat
Épisode Crépusculaire
On Being Dumped Down a Chimney
Chevaliers de la Lune
Cirque de la Lune
The Oddity That Passed Beneath a Gaslight
The Cocoa Prank
The Moonman
The Men Who Hoist the Moon
On Being Shoved Down an Aqueduct
Did You Really Reach the Moon?
On Being Struck by a Star
On Making Bread out of Stars
On Losing Myself
On Grappling with a Gaslight
Star or Firecracker?
Tour du Chat-Noir
An Incident at the Concert
On Eating a Star
On Going Out to Snatch a Comet
The Moonlight Moonshiners
On Shooting Down the Rain
Someone Who Went Home Sighing
The Moon in His Pocket
On Being Deceived by the Mist
The Smoocher
On Being Pushed Out
On Being Sent Flying
On Being Sent Staggering
On Cutting a Black Cat's Tail
Quelque Chose de Noir
C'est Rien d'Autre
An Incident One Evening
A Fiendish Chat in the Moonlight
Une Chanson d'Enfants
Un Énigme
Une Mémoire
On Brawling with Mr. Moon
The Moon and the Cigarette
Overheard One Night in the Shadows of a Warehouse
How My Harmonica Was Filched
On Scuffling with a Shooting Star
The Rock Throwing Affair
On Finding a Star