Virus VS Viral Kindness

One of my favorite folk tales is called A Story Short, about a storyteller who is starving, and goes to the castle to trade a story for a meal. When he gets there he sees the cook refusing to help a beggar, so he tricks the cook into feeding both him and the beggar. When the cook realizes he’s been tricked, he takes the storyteller before the king for judgement. The king is amused and, for punishment, he tells the storyteller he has to tell him a story every night for a year and a day, but if he runs out of stories he’ll be executed.