By turns funny moving romantic and surreal and filled with unexpected twists and turns each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.<ul> <li>Andrew Lam's 'The Palmist' performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy.<li>Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt' performed by Stephen Colbert. A room which can take you anywhere in the world - sometimes with dangerous consequences<li>W. W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw' performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers.<li>Saki's 'The Occasional Garden' performed by Daniel Gerroll. If you can't grow a garden; poof! - you can rent one.<li>Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon' performed by Maria Tucci. There's something suddenly in the sky in midtown Manhattan....<li>Kevin Brockmeier's 'The Year of Silence' performed by Anthony Rapp. What if everything went quiet?<li>Jonathan Safran Foer's 'The Sixth Borough' performed by Jerry Zaks. Yes New York had a Sixth Borough but it drifted away....<li>Aimee Bender's 'Drunken Mimi' performed by Bernadette Quigley. A romance between a mermaid and an imp.<li>Haruki Murakami's 'The Little Green Monster' performed by Dana Ivey. A piece of Murakami magic: Is this a monster I see before me?<li>T. C. Boyle's 'Swept Away' performed by René Auberjonois. This story's weather forecast: Very windy and very funny.