The Storyteller

The StorytellerAnna and Abel couldnt be more different. They are both seventeen and in their last year of school, but while Anna lives in a nice old town house and comes from a well to do family, Abel, the school drug dealer, lives in a big, prisonlike tower block at the edge of town. Anna is afraid of him until she realizes that he is caring for his six year old sister on his own. Fascinated, Anna follows the two and listens as Abel tells little Micha the story of

When the beast turns out to be a troll brought to life from his own games

And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups

black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles

Emmie OBrien is a former good girl now on the fringe

but happily

we seem to be clinging to the animals that served us well in the past

courage and selflessness

speed and endurance

[Ricky Cohen] challenges many of our excuses for not achieving our own personal greatness in a playful yet thought-provoking way

" and is widely read in major newspapers across the U

A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world

000 years of biological evolution organized through the lens of relative lifespan