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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Stone Mattress is a short fiction collection by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2014. Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism.The nine tales in the collection are:


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