The father of many children, the candle-lighter, went out to the village square, proclaiming with a megaphone his love for the parish priest. The prominent meteorologist of the Hellenic National Meteorological Service was fired from his job because he danced the rain dance in the courtyard of his service for seventeen hours. The governor of the central bank resigned, embraced Buddhism, took refuge in Matala, and survives by selling handmade amulets. His mother-in-law suffered a cerebral palsy and went on to establish a political party, which shows high percentages in the latest polls. Finally, the book-loving director of the national wildlife park, who has the habit of reading aloud, noticed that the animals went on a hunger strike, presenting strange demands: the baboons demanded to attend pre-election rallies and the parrots to have the right to participate in nationwide exams. The director himself married, in a civil ceremony, a beautiful koala who recently won the title of "Miss Australia." Ten stories by Haini D. Apostolakis.