A Piece of Meat

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A Piece of Meat
A slowly aging boxer goes into a fight that will decide the fate of his career. One single circumstance won’t let him be at peace—his wife couldn’t borrow even a scrap of meat from a butcher. Sometimes the future depends on the most trivial-seeming things.

Bulls
But that’s just how life is arranged: a drifter sets himself against society, and society’s guard dogs feed on him. However, sometimes a drifter himself becomes the prey of such a guard dog—especially in winter. Of course, he tries to choose those communities where prisons have the reputation of “decent” places—where they don’t force you to work and where you’re fed at least tolerably well. Besides, it’s happened more than once—and maybe it happens still—that the constables share the money they receive with their game. For such a constable, hunting isn’t even necessary: all you have to do is whistle—and the game is right there…

To Kill a Person
A young woman comes home at night and finds an armed burglar in one of the rooms of her wealthy house. The criminal threatens her with a weapon and promises not to harm the mistress if she lets him go—after all, he has simply come to take what belongs to him. Intrigued, the girl offers the man to stay and explain his point of view on theft and justice. During the friendly conversation, the revolver ends up in the hands of the victim of the robbery…

The Drifter and the Fairy
He lay on his back. Such a deep sleep overcame him that neither the hoofbeats of horses nor the cries of the wagoners—heard from a bridge over the river—woke him. Carts piled to the brim with grapes stretched in an endless line across the bridge toward the valley, to the wine cellar. And each cart, passing, seemed to shake the drowsy silence of the afternoon hours with an explosion…

The Tale of Kish
After the death of Bok, the great bear hunter, his wife and son were left without a provider and lived in hunger. Other men of the tribe were in no hurry to share their catch with the widow and her boy. But when Bok’s son Kish grew up, he began to hunt for the whole tribe, dividing the share of each equally—thereby proving that he is as great a hunter as his father. Yet his tribesmen didn’t believe that Kish was such a good hunter; they suspected him of having a connection with magic…