There’s a tavern that never quite closes, traveler, and a fire that never quite goes out. Pull up a chair. There are stories waiting.
Hear a Tale
Step into the common room and hear the stories already told around the fire.
Browse the Tale LedgerSee What’s Coming
Look ahead to the tales queued for the fire and the stories still being prepared.
View Coming TalesThe Private Table
Take a seat at the private table for whole tellings, exclusive tales, and a closer place beside the fire.
Join the TableMost Recent Tales
The latest stories to find their way to the Cricket’s fire.
Welcome to the Chirping Cricket
Some stories entertain. Some instruct. And some endure — carried across generations because they tell us who we are.
Movies, books, television, legends, and history are retold in the voice of an old roadside bard — with room for the strange detail, the old context, and the question that lingers after the telling is done.
Some tales are told whole in the common room. Some have a fuller telling at the private table. And some are reserved for the private room entirely.
Pull up a chair. The fire is lit.