I have finished reading the first story in The Miniature Wife collection of short stories. The one I have read is called "William Corbin: A Meritorious Life". It is really more of a fictitious anecdote about how clowns came into being.
Apparently, long ago there was actually a race of man called the Klouns. They were strange looking people who were often found performing for carnivals or some sort of show. William was not a Kloun but wished to be one, and so taught himself the ways of Klouns. He later began impersonating a Kloun and traveled to the Klounkovan territories. He was discovered however, and was run out of the Klounkovan territories. After that, he began to teach others the way of the Kloun. These people continued the craft, and taught others even after the Klouns went extinct.
It was a short fun read, which taught me a few things. First of all, it showed me that the stories do not always have to span a short amount of time, or be in real detail. This story just gave the broad outline of an entire life in three pages, as opposed to, say, The description of the events in an hour spreading over twenty pages. I will try to continue reading and postig about the stories in this book.