Aesop’s fables have survived for millennia and have flourished in practically every culture and age group, because they express universal truths in succinct, witty form. This collection of fifty new fables for the twenty-first century invites readers to pause and reflect on a world of several alternate realities and instant judgments, where truth cannot easily be separated from fiction. The fable, as a product of an oral tradition, is particularly well suited to the present day, when the news cycle is dominated by sound bites. It is basically a simple story or allegory told to point a moral truth, an unassuming incident which teaches a lesson by example. The narrative in this collection employs talking animals as symbols for humans and introduces a conflict of values, the resolution of which engenders and prescribes moral guidance. Although in recent centuries the fable has declined as a literary device for adult consumption, it remains a universal tool for educating and socializing children. Here it is revived to address adult subjects – religion, justice, morality, politics, equality and culture - in simple, pithy anecdotes that are amusing, thoughtful and unpretentious without being frivolous. They will appeal to a sense of humour or to the emotions or to the intellect or to all these combined. By speaking through the mouths of animals, these fables are also able to make observations that might be censored in polite society,