Nove

<p>These nine stories scenes from a now-faraway youth necessarily would have been misremembered truncated and therefore come into the present morphed into an entity quite distinct and separate from what they once were; however they still bear the better telling. Thus memory often shall bend the tale into something new and apart from mere fact. Still their telling is well-warranted since all nine tales snatched away from Mercury do knit and meld themselves together to form a better more fanciful whole to create a most pleasing portrait of the distant past.</p>