Wise Monkey Wrought, Ēlabōrātum

Welcome to The WroughtAn Archive of Modern Fables & Short Poems

  • The Nice Day

    The sun came out on a Saturday in England. The country put down whatever it was holding.

  • The Soap Dispenser

    It is touchless. In practice it has opinions about which hands deserve soap and when.

  • The Oven Clock

    The clocks went back in October. Everything in the house followed, except the oven.

  • The Spirit Level

    The shelf went up on Saturday, by eye. The spirit level came out afterwards.

  • The Wheelie Bin

    A letter explaining the system arrived in 2021. The letter was read once.

  • The Allen Key

    The wardrobe arrived in nineteen pieces, with one folded key. It went into the drawer.

  • The Spare Button

    Nobody can name the drawer. Everyone is confident it exists.

  • The Paint Chart

    The chart offers forty whites. Six were bought as testers. They are still there.

  • The Barbecue

    The kitchen is a foreign country to him. He has never been.

  • The Motion Sensor Light

    The light went up above the garage. It faces the road. It has been on eleven times tonight.

  • The Pub Quiz

    Four at the table by the window. Three hundred years between them.

  • The Houseplant

    The houseplant was bought to be cared for. It preferred to be forgotten.

  • The Inbox

    The inbox reached zero at four o’clock on a Friday. It lasted the length of a coffee.

  • The Queue

    Two queues stood at the supermarket. One was moving. It knew it was being watched.

  • The Password

    The brain keeps every advert jingle from 1994 in pristine condition. The password was set on Tuesday.

  • Goodhart’s Law

    The watch asked for ten thousand steps a day. It did not ask where they went, or why.

  • The Snooze Button

    The snooze button does not extend sleep. It opens negotiations.

  • Hofstadter’s Law

    The shelf was a two hour job. Hofstadter’s Law states it takes longer than expected, even when the law is taken into account. The shelf had read the law.

  • The Single Sock

    The sock went into the wash a pair and came out a philosopher.

  • The Wasp at the Picnic

    The wasp had not been invited to the picnic. The wasp did not consider this relevant.

  • The Shopping Trolley

    The trolley had three wheels in agreement and one with ideas of its own.

  • The Garden Gnome

    The gnome was given a rod and a pond and told to fish. The pond was concrete. The gnome did not complain.

  • The Wine Cork

    The cork held the wine for nineteen years and was famous for about a second and a half.

  • The Goldfish

    The goldfish had a memory of three seconds and a castle it discovered fresh on every lap.

  • Murphy’s Law

    Murphy observed that anything that can go wrong will. The toast had read his work closely.

  • The Coat Kept for Best

    One coat was saved for best. The other went to work. Best was a date only the closet kept.

  • The Captcha

    The form was complete. One step remained. The site wished to confirm the applicant was human. It asked him to find all the images containing a bus.

  • The Doorstep Goodbye

    The visit ended at nine, in principle. The coats went on at twenty past. The car started at five to ten.

  • The Sneaker

    A sneaker, white as morning frost, stepped out as if the world were lost.

  • The Tape Measure

    The shelf needed one measurement. A simple job. The tape measure was found in the second drawer, under the string. It agreed to come out. It did not agree to stay.

  • The Banana

    The banana arrived green and would leave brown. Between the two, it was scheduled to be perfect for roughly two hours.

  • The Monkey

    He keeps a ledger. It is not a long book. Centuries of watching, and the page is mostly margin.